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We remember, we love, we grieve : mortuary and memorial practice in contemporary Russia / Elizabeth Warner, Svetlana Adonyeva.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Warner, Elizabeth, 1940- author.
- Adonʹeva, S. B., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Funeral rites and ceremonies--Russia (Federation).
- Funeral rites and ceremonies.
- Russia (Federation).
- Memorial rites and ceremonies--Russia (Federation).
- Memorial rites and ceremonies.
- Mourning customs--Russia (Federation).
- Mourning customs.
- Death--Social aspects--Russia (Federation).
- Death.
- Death--Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2021]
- System Details:
- text file
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780299330736
- 0299330737
- Publisher Number:
- 40030450700
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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