Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Archive References and Abbreviations
  • Note on Transliteration and Translation
  • Introduction: People, Places, and Approaches
  • 1. Beliefs about the Soul, the Living Dead, and the Afterlife in Contemporary Rural North Russia
  • 2. Ritual Feeding and the Cult of Ancestors
  • 3. The Lament: A Language for Communicating with the Dead
  • 4. The Cross, the Birch, and the Kawasaki Motorbike: The Visual Rhetoric of Russian Rural Cemeteries in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
  • 5. The Russian Semik-Troitsa (Trinity) Ritual Complex: A Deconstruction of the Public and Private Faces of Ritual, or "A Festival of Life and Death"
  • 6. The Story of the Eternal Flame: Ritual Memorial Sites of the Soviet Era
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index