essay
Daily life and holidays of the Siberian village in the eighteenth and first half of the nineteenth centuries
Russian traditional culture: religion, gender, and customary law • Armonk, N.y. • Published In 1992 • Pages: 159-224
By: Minenko, N. A. (Nina Adamovna).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Russian peasants observed a number of holidays and rest days that helped them break the monotony of agricultural labor. This study discusses the most important religious holidays and other organized ceremonials in the calendar of the Russian Orthodox Church. Celebrations also included communal feasts and a range of organized leisure time activities such as group singing, dancing, horse racing, and games. Such activities reinforced the cohesion of the village community while accommodating structural cleavages and power inequalities along wealth, age and gender. Aspects of daily life are also covered, highlighting the difficulties faced in such things as communication and health care in the vastness and cold of Siberia.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Morbidity
- Writing
- Rest days and holidays
- Music
- Classes
- Visiting and hospitality
- Sickness
- Organized ceremonial
- Adolescent activities
- 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
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Historian
- 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 ; 2019
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1976, 1986
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1700-1863
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Siberia, Russia
- NotesAdditional notes
- N. A. Minenko
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 92004775
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ethnology--Russia (Federation)
- Folklore--Russia (Federation)
- Russians--Intellectual life
- Russians--Folklore
- Russia (Federation)--Social life and customs