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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (305 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780299330736
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: We Remember, We Love, We GrieveDDC classification:
  • 393/.90947
LOC classification:
  • GT3256
Online resources:
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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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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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