We remember, we love, we grieve : mortuary and memorial practice in contemporary Russia /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Warner, Elizabeth, 1940- (Author), Adonʹeva, S. B. (Author)
Corporate Author:	JSTOR (Organization)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2021]
Subjects:	Funeral rites and ceremonies > Russia (Federation) Memorial rites and ceremonies > Russia (Federation) Mourning customs > Russia (Federation) Death > Social aspects > Russia (Federation) Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of 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.