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The great Russian peasant: culture change or cultural development?
Ethnology • 2 (3) • Published In 1963 • Pages: 320-338
By: Dunn, Stephen Porter, Dunn, Ethel.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Drawing on data collected by Russian ethnographers, the authors examine change and continuity in aspects of traditional Russian culture and society. They find significant change in three areas: increased separation of religion and state (secularization); rapid urbanization; and an out-migration of rural people in search of wage labor (proletarianization). They note significant continuities in family life and marriage customs, among other practices and beliefs, which they attribute to the resilience of core Russian values in the face of decades of government intervention aiming to replace them with communist ideals.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Economic planning and development
- Income and demand
- Labor supply and employment
- Cooperative organization
- 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
- article
- 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
- 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
- not applicable
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1931-1957
- 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
- Stephen P. Dunn and Ethel Dunn
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 338)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 64005713
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Viryatino, Russia