Description
| Product ID: | 9780873328890 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Russian Folk Belief |
| Authors: | Author: Linda J. Ivanits |
| Page Count: | 272 |
| Subjects: | Social and cultural history, Social & cultural history |
| Description: | A scholarly work that aims to be both broad enough in scope to satisfy upper-division undergraduates studying folk belief and narrative and detailed enough to meet the needs of graduate students in the field. A scholarly work that aims to be both broad enough in scope to satisfy upper-division undergraduates studying folk belief and narrative and detailed enough to meet the needs of graduate students in the field. Each of the seven chapters in Part 1 focuses on one aspect of Russian folk belief, such as the pagan background, Christian personages, devils and various other logical categories of the topic. The author''s thesis - that Russian folk belief represents a "double faith" whereby Slavic pagan beliefs are overlaid with popular Christianity - is persuasive and has analogies in other cultures. The folk narratives constituting Part 2 are translated and include a wide range of tales, from the briefly anecdotal to the more fully developed narrative, covering the various folk personages and motifs explored in Part 1. |
| Imprint Name: | M.E. Sharpe |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Inc |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 1992-09-30 |