Village values
Subtitle: negotiating identity, gender, and resistance in contemporary Russian life-cycle rituals
By: Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby.
Publisher: Slavica Publishers
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Bloomington, IN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780893573539
Subjects: Rites and ceremonies -- Soviet Union; Rites and ceremonies -- Russia (Federation); Life cycle, Human; Soviet Union -- Social life and customs; Russia (Federation) -- Social life and customs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to the question; title: Nineteenth-century life-cycle rituals; title: The Soviet Russian childbirth ritual (1950-90); title: The Soviet Russian wedding ritual (1950-90); title: The Soviet Russian funeral ritual (1950-90); title: Life-cycle rituals during late perestroika and in the post-Soviet world; title: The Soviet ritual complex.