Russian traditional culture : religion, gender, and customary law / edited by Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer.

Other author Balzer, Marjorie Mandelstam.
Format Book
Publication InfoArmonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, ©1992.
Descriptionxxii, 310 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents The introduction of Christianity in Russia and the pagan tradition / I. Ia. Froianov, A. Iu. Dvornichenko, and Iu. V. Krivosheev -- The Christianization of the Russian peasants / V.G. Vlasov -- Russian folk culture and folk religion / T.A. Bernshtam -- Forms of transformation of pagan symbolism in the old believer tradition / N.N. Veletskaia -- Archaic elements in the charms of the Russian population of Siberia / F.F. Bolonev -- On the history of icon painting in western Siberia / N.G. Velizhanina -- The woman in the ancient Russian family (tenth to fifteenth centuries) / N.L. Pushkareva -- Russian rituals, customs, and beliefs associated with the midwife (1850-1930) / T.A. Listova -- "She entered a nunnery ..." / Iu. Kuz'mina -- The living past : daily life and holidays of the Siberian village in the eighteenth and first half of the nineteenth centuries / N.A. Minenko.
Contents Traditional norms of behavior and forms of interaction of nineteenth-century Russian peasants / M.M. Gromyko -- The commune and customary law among Russian peasants of the northern Cis-Urals : seventeenth to nineteenth centuries / I.V. Vlasova -- A program for collection of material on the customs and rituals associated with childbirth / T.A. Listova -- A program for gathering information on the peasant commune and family / I.V. Vlasova -- Bibliography / compiled by Marjorie M. Balzer, Ben Eklof, and Leslie English.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 271-299) and index.
LCCN 92004775
ISBN1563240394
ISBN1563240408 (pbk.)

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Joyner General Stacks DK510.32 .R87 1992 ✔ Available Place Hold