Solovyovo: The Story of Memory in a Russian Village

Contents

1 Introduction: Iuliia’s Hands 1 12 1.Memory’s Topography 12 Memories as Social Acts 12 Continuity and Change 14 Memory as Landscape 19 28 2.Setting the Village in Space and Time 28 The Village Question 28 Solovyovo in Space and Time 37 52 3.Being“One’s Own”in Solovyovo 52 Introduction: Social Circles 52 Solovyovo’s Sense of Svoi 53 Basic Economic Organization 67 On Unevenness: Hierarchy in Solovyovo 73 Gathering the Other into the Realm of the Self 77 88 4.Radiance 88 Introduction: Narrative Landscapes 88 Svetloe Proshloe (The Radiant Past) 90 Rethinking the Radiant Past 117 122 5.Wonders 122 Mir Chudesnogo (The World of Wonders) 122 Wondrous Stories 124 Political Wonders 142 “Vse-taki, doma luchshe”(Anyway, Home Is Best) 147 Contents Paxson.front 8/16/05 10:06 AM Page x 152 6.Healing 152 Setting Space Right 152 Healing, Religion, and Magic: Looking for Transformative Powers 154 Obrashchenie in Solovyovo 163 Setting Space Wrong: How Illness Falls 167 Setting Space Right: Heaviness and Lightness 181 Fixing the Social Body through Dobrom Dobro 185 Setting Space Right: The Dead, the Rod, and the Rodina 191 214 7. The Red Corner 214 Introduction: Layers of Memory 214 Krasnyi Ugol (Red and Beautiful Corner) 217 Icons in Corner Space 219 Misbehaving Icons 240 Local Khoziaeva in the Corner 251 266 8. Calendars 266 Calendrical Topography: The Poetics of Revelry 266 Calendars in Rural Russia: Confrontations of Time-Space 271 Memory and Necessity 286 Gulianki and Il’in Den’ 291 Victory Day and State Remembrance Days 316 Troitsa and Remembrance Days of the Rodina 329 345 Afterword: On Lightness and Weight 345 350 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 351 356 RUSSIAN TERMS AND PHRASES 356 360 BIBLIOGRAPHY 358 377 INDEX 375 Paxson.front 8/16/05 10:06 AM Page xi Paxson.front 8/16/05 10:06 AM Page xii ...