Reading Russian Fortunes - Print Culture, Gender and Divination in Russia From 1765

Zusammenfassung This is the first full-length study of the huge cultural impact of fortune-telling in Russia from the eighteenth century to the present. It discusses the links between urban fortune-telling and traditional oral culture the particular role of women! and discusses why fortune-telling is still a powerful force in Russian. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Dreambooks and other fortune-telling guides; 2. Divination in Russian traditional culture; 3. Readers and detractors; 4. Printers and publishers; 5. Women, men and domestic fortune-telling; 6. Fortune-tellers and their clientele; 7. Sages and prophets; 8. Disappearance and revival; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Wigzell Faith, Faith Wigzell
• Assisted by: Catriona Kelly (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.03.2006
• EAN: 9780521024792
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02479-2
• No. of pages: 268
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Russian L; Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Slavonic linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Cultural Studies, Russia, RELIGION / Wicca, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social and cultural history, Occult Studies