Russian Traditional Culture

Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer, Ronald Radzai

• 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