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This is an annotated collection of recent studies of Russian folk religion, village organization and family life, including the rituals associated with childbirth, and paying special attention to women's roles and to the specificity of Siberia in Russian culture.
List of contents
Religion and Ritual; The Introduction of Christianity in Russia and the Pagan Traditions; The Christianization of the Russian Peasants; Russian Folk Culture and Folk Religion; Forms of Transformation of Pagan Symbolism in the Old Believer Tradition; Archaic Elements in the Charms of the Russian Population of Siberia; On the History of Icon Painting in Western Siberia; Gender and Family Life; The Woman in the Ancient Russian Family (Tenth to Fifteenth Centuries); Russian Rituals, Customs, and Beliefs Associated with the Midwife (1850-1930); “She Entered a Nunnery ...”; Customary Law, Daily Life, Medicine, and Morality; The Living Past; Traditional Norms of Behavior and Forms of Interaction of Nineteenth-century Russian Peasants; The Commune and Customary Law among Russian Peasants of the Northern Cis-Urals
Summary
This is an annotated collection of recent studies of Russian folk religion, village organization and family life, including the rituals associated with childbirth, and paying special attention to women's roles and to the specificity of Siberia in Russian culture.
