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Author:   Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer ,  Ronald Radzai ,  Ronald Radzai
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   annotated edition
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781563240393

ISBN 10:   1563240394
Pages:   334
Publication Date:   31 October 1992
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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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

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