We remember, we love, we grieve mortuary and memorial practice in contemporary Russia / Elizabeth Warner and Svetlana Adonyeva.

Author/creator Warner, Elizabeth, 1940-
Other author Adon�£eva, S. B.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoMadison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2021]
Descriptionxv, 288 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 259-273) and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2020017013
ISBN9780299330705 (cloth)

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