We Remember, We Love, We Grieve : Mortuary and Memorial Practice in Contemporary Russia /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Warner, Elizabeth, 1940- (Author), Adonʹeva, S. B. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2021]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Mourning customs.
Memorial rites and ceremonies.
Funeral rites and ceremonies.
Death > Social aspects.
Death > Social aspects > Russia (Federation)
Mourning customs > Russia (Federation)
Memorial rites and ceremonies > Russia (Federation)
Funeral rites and ceremonies > Russia (Federation)
Russia (Federation)
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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

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