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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817624703321

Autore

Warner Elizabeth <1940->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, Wisconsin : , : The University of Wisconsin Press, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

0-299-33073-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 online resource)

Disciplina

393.90947

Soggetti

Memorial rites and ceremonies - Russia (Federation)

Mourning customs

Funeral rites and ceremonies - Russia (Federation)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

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