ISBN:
9780299330705
Language:
English
Pages:
xiv, 288 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
DDC:
393/.90947
Keywords:
Funeral rites and ceremonies
;
Memorial rites and ceremonies
;
Mourning customs
;
Death Social aspects
Abstract:
Beliefs about the soul, the living dead, and the afterlife in contemporary, rural North Russia -- Ritual feeding and the cult of ancestors -- The lament: a language for communicating with the dead -- The cross, the birch, and the Kawasaki motorbike: the visual rhetoric of Russian rural cemeteries in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries -- The Russian Semik-Troitsa (Trinity) ritual complex: a deconstruction of the public and private faces of ritual, or "A festival of life and death" -- The story of the eternal flame: ritual memorial sites of the Soviet era.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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