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Castration and the Heavenly Kingdom : A Russian Folktale /

"Of the many sects that broke from the official Russian Orthodox church in the eighteenth century, one was universally despised. Its members were peasants from the Russian heartland skilled in the arts of animal husbandry who turned their knives on themselves to become "eunuchs for the kin...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Engelstein, Laura
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1999.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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