Village Values: Negotiating Identity, Gender, and Resistance in Urban Russian Life-Cycle Rituals

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments .................................................................................................... ix Chapter 1 Introduction to the Question ........................................................................... 1 Chapter 2 Nineteenth-Century Life-Cycle Rituals ....................................................... 31 Chapter 3 The Soviet Russian Childbirth Ritual (1950- 90) ........................................ 63 Chapter 4 The Soviet Russian Wedding Ritual (1950- 90) ........................................ 119 Chapter 5 The Soviet Russian Funeral Ritual (1950-90) ........................................... 177 Chapter 6 Life-Cycle Rituals during Late Perestroika and in the Post-Soviet World ............................................................................... 229 Chapter 7 The Soviet Ritual Complex ........................................................................... 277 Interviews ................................................................................................................ 285 Bibliography ........................................................................................................... 291 Index ............................................................................................................ 303 ...