Solovyovo: The Story of Memory in a Russian Village

INDEX

Index 375 Adon’eva, Svetlana, 345 age groups: and draki (gang fights), 298–300; formation of, 296–98 agrarian calendar. See calendars agricultural reform, 83 agriculture practices and social organization, 61–62 Agrofirma Belozerska, 45–46 Alekseevich, Mikhail. See Belov, Mikhail Alekseevich ancestors in icon corner, 254–60. See also red corner Anderson, Benedict, 23 anthropology, 14–15, 157, 158n, 160, 267–68 apparitions, 199–200, 244–45. See also dead and involvement with living; healing practices arrests, 142–49, 238 Art of Memory, The (Yates), 21n Asad, Talal, 160 autobiographical memory, 13 babushki (grandmothers), 90, 123 Bachelard, Gaston, 18–19, 251 bad forces, 166n barin (feudal landlord), 75 batiushka (grandfather), 232 being “one’s own” in Solovyovo. See social organization Belov, Mikhail Alekseevich: agrarian history records of, 45n; biography of, 163; and calendar, 279; on calendars, 281–82; calf, birth of (rite of naveshchenie), 252–54; on clubhouses, 308; on coming of communists, 43n; on discipline and leadership, 101; exchange of goods and services, 70; on farming, 6; on fear, 108; on fights, 298; as head of household, 56; and healing, 155, 163–66, 172–79, 182–87, 197, 200, 209–10; and icons, 219n; and Il’in Den’, 312–13; on khoziain, 236; on khoziain doma, 260–61; on loss of frameworks for social order, 101–2; name of, 59; on political repression, 44n; on poverty and heightened morality, 95; on retribution, 248; role in study, 46–47; and senokos, 310; Paxson.375-390 8/16/05 11:56 AM Page 375 Belov, Mikhail Alekseevich (continued) on svoi, 82; as village elder, 66; on wonders, 135, 138 Belova, Iuliia Ivanovna: on appropriate interactions between sexes, 296; biography of, 1–2; and calendars, 288–89; on calendars, 282; and calf, birth of (rite of naveshchenie), 252–54; on current politics, 323; on dead, 202; exchange of goods and services, 70; farm life of, 3, 4, 5, 8; on healing, 200; on illness, 169, 176–77, 178, 181–83, 187–88, 196, 197; name of, 59; orphanage experience of, 324; on radiant past, 97; on retribution, 248n; and rodina, 204, 205–6, 207, 208; role in study, 46–47, 55; on Stalin, 111, 237; and thresholds, 217; on urkupnenie, 84; and Victory Day, 321, 327; view of Party, 97n; on wonders, 125, 127, 128, 140 Bernshtam, T.A., 299 bird symbolism, 202n black and white magic. See magic, black and white blat (influence), 73n Boas, Franz, 14 boasting, 138–39n Bogdanova, Maia: and healing, 152; on icons, 220–21, 222–23; and radiant past, 94, 105, 114; on rodina, 203, 204 boiare (members of administrative class), 75–76 Bolsheviks, 33, 34 Bourdieu, Pierre, 216n, 267–68, 270n, 271 Cadres sociaux de la mémoire, les (Durkheim), 13 calendars, 266–343; age group formation, 296–98; agrarian, 161–63, 192, 201, 271, 275–78; civic cycle, 280–81; and coalescing svoi, 290–343; draki and village age groups, 298–300; gulianki and Il’in Den,’ 291–316; as hegemonic confrontation, 216–17; irreverence, 300–314; May festivals, 317–19; memory and necessity, 286–316; of Orthodox Church, 201, 278–80; overlapping calendar spaces, 281–83; political overlapping of, 24, 283–86; in rural Russia, 271–86; seasonal tasks, 271–75; shift from Julian to Gregorian, 277n; and social memory, 267–70; study of cycle of rites and holidays, 161–62; summer celebrations (gulianki), 291–316; topography of, 266–70; Troitsa and remembrance days of rodina, 192n, 329–43; victory and state remembrance days, 316–29; winter, 271–72 calf, birth of (rite of naveshchenie), 252–54 camps, 144–47 cash wages, 44 Catherine II, 231 Celebrations of Death (Huntington & Metcalf), 199 Chaianov, Aleksandr, 58 change and continuity, 14–19 chaos: and control, 117–19; and verbal prefix raz-, 103–7, 117 Charred Lullabies (Daniel), 9 chastushki, 301–7, 309, 313, 316 Chechnya, 210, 320, 327 Cherniavsky, Michael, 229, 232 children and illness, 175–76 INDEX 376 Paxson.375-390 8/16/05 11:56 AM Page 376 churches, 41, 184n, 232, 333–34. See also icons; Orthodox Church; religion chuzhoi: dangers of interactions with, 178; definition of, 53; and distrusted social and symbolic verticality, 75–76; exchange and money transactions with, 73; female villagers as, 56–57, 58; and nationalism, 328; svoi versus, 82–83; terms, 81 circles, 22–23 circumambulation (obkhod) to protect animals, 56–57, 225n civic cycle, 280–81 class, 16, 34 Clément, Olivier, 332...