Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-299) and index.
Contents:
The introduction of Christianity in Russia and the pagan tradition / I. Ia. Froianov, A. Iu. Dvornichenko, and Iu. V. Krivosheev -- The Christianization of the Russian peasants / V.G. Vlasov -- Russian folk culture and folk religion / T.A. Bernshtam -- Forms of transformation of pagan symbolism in the old believer tradition / N.N. Veletskaia -- Archaic elements in the charms of the Russian population of Siberia / F.F. Bolonev -- On the history of icon painting in western Siberia / N.G. Velizhanina -- The woman in the ancient Russian family (tenth to fifteenth centuries) / N.L. Pushkareva -- Russian rituals, customs, and beliefs associated with the midwife (1850-1930) / T.A. Listova -- "She entered a nunnery ..." / Iu. Kuz'mina -- The living past : daily life and holidays of the Siberian village in the eighteenth and first half of the nineteenth centuries / N.A. Minenko. Traditional norms of behavior and forms of interaction of nineteenth-century Russian peasants / M.M. Gromyko -- The commune and customary law among Russian peasants of the northern Cis-Urals : seventeenth to nineteenth centuries / I.V. Vlasova -- A program for collection of material on the customs and rituals associated with childbirth / T.A. Listova -- A program for gathering information on the peasant commune and family / I.V. Vlasova -- Bibliography / compiled by Marjorie M. Balzer, Ben Eklof, and Leslie English.
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