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.

Adoneva, S. B., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Memorial rites and ceremonies--Russia (Federation).

Memorial rites and ceremonies.

Mourning customs.

Funeral rites and ceremonies--Russia (Federation).

Funeral rites and ceremonies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource)

Place of Publication:

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

Summary:

This is a book about death, comprehensive in its discussion of strategies for coping with loss and grief in rural northern Russia. Elizabeth Warner and Svetlana Adonyeva bring forth the voices of those for whom caring for their dead is deeply personal and firmly rooted in practices of everyday life. Thoroughly researched chapters consider lamenting traditions, examine beliefs surrounding natural symbols, and parse sensitive and profound funereal rituals."We remember, we love, we grieve" is a common epitaph in this part of the world. As contemporary Russia contends with the Soviet Union's legacy of dismantling older ways of life, the phrase ripples beyond individual loss-it encapsulates communities' determination to preserve their customs when faced with oppression. This volume offers insight into a core cultural practice, exploring the dynamism of tradition.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780299330736

0299330737

OCLC:

1236400476