Book
The village of Viriatino: an ethnographic study of a Russian village from before the revolution to the present
Anchor Books • Garden City, N.y. • Published In 1970 • Pages:
By: Benet, Sula.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Written by a team of nine Russian ethnographers, each responsible for a chapter, this book discusses a century of change and continuity in the socioeconomic conditions of a peasant community. Pre-revolutionary life was characterized by exploitative agrarian relations rooted in the nexus of patriarchal family structure, religion, and land-holding inequality. Post-revolution, the communist party redistributed land equitably and organized farmers into collectives administered by elected officials. Parallel to a series of campaigns for literacy and numeracy, party leaders also promoted secularization by banning traditional religious practices, effectively increasing the power of young communist leaders and their supporters as agents in a campaign against former land owners and patriarchal elites.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Normal garb
- Special garments
- Paraphernalia
- Architecture
- Dwellings
- Building interiors and arrangement
- Real property
- Labor supply and employment
- Cooperative organization
- Gender status
- Classes
- Family relationships
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Russians
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Europe
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Eastern Europe
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Anthropologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi Abate Adem ; 2018
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1952-1957
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1850-1957
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Viryatino (Viriatino), Sosnovsky, Tambov, Russia
- NotesAdditional notes
- Translated and edited by Sula Benet
- Translation of Selo Viri︠a︡tino v proshlom i nastoi︠a︡shchem (romanized form)
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 75123713
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Viryatino, Russia