Russian traditional culture : religion, gender, and customary law

Russian traditional culture : religion, gender, and customary law / edited by Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Balzer, Marjorie Mandelstam
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c1992.
Subjects:
Ethnology > Russia (Federation)
Folklore > Russia (Federation)
Russians > Intellectual life.
Russians > Folklore.
Russia (Federation) > Social life and customs.
Table of Contents:
  • The introduction of Christianity in Russia and the pagan tradition / I. Ia. Froianov, A. Iu. Dvornichenko, and Iu. V. Krivosheev
  • The Christianization of the Russian peasants / V.G. Vlasov
  • Russian folk culture and folk religion / T.A. Bernshtam
  • Forms of transformation of pagan symbolism in the old believer tradition / N.N. Veletskaia
  • Archaic elements in the charms of the Russian population of Siberia / F.F. Bolonev
  • On the history of icon painting in western Siberia / N.G. Velizhanina
  • The woman in the ancient Russian family (tenth to fifteenth centuries) / N.L. Pushkareva
  • Russian rituals, customs, and beliefs associated with the midwife (1850-1930) / T.A. Listova
  • "She entered a nunnery ..." / Iu. Kuz'mina
  • The living past : daily life and holidays of the Siberian village in the eighteenth and first half of the nineteenth centuries / N.A. Minenko.
  • Traditional norms of behavior and forms of interaction of nineteenth-century Russian peasants / M.M. Gromyko
  • The commune and customary law among Russian peasants of the northern Cis-Urals : seventeenth to nineteenth centuries / I.V. Vlasova
  • A program for collection of material on the customs and rituals associated with childbirth / T.A. Listova
  • A program for gathering information on the peasant commune and family / I.V. Vlasova
  • Bibliography / compiled by Marjorie M. Balzer, Ben Eklof, and Leslie English.

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