We remember, we love, we grieve mortuary and memorial practice in contemporary Russia /
Warner, Elizabeth, 1940-
We remember, we love, we grieve mortuary and memorial practice in contemporary Russia / Elizabeth Warner, Svetlana Adonyeva. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
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
9780299330736
Funeral rites and ceremonies--Russia (Federation)
Memorial rites and ceremonies--Russia (Federation)
Mourning customs--Russia (Federation)
Death--Social aspects--Russia (Federation)
Electronic Books.
GT3256 / .W474 2021
We remember, we love, we grieve mortuary and memorial practice in contemporary Russia / Elizabeth Warner, Svetlana Adonyeva. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
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
9780299330736
Funeral rites and ceremonies--Russia (Federation)
Memorial rites and ceremonies--Russia (Federation)
Mourning customs--Russia (Federation)
Death--Social aspects--Russia (Federation)
Electronic Books.
GT3256 / .W474 2021