Elizabeth A Warner
Biographic Data
| ID | 212827 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth A Warner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth A |
| FAMILY NAME | Warner |
| SIGNATURE | WARNER E A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hull |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Russian Peasant Beliefs Concerning the Unclean Dead and Drought, Within the Context of the Agricultural Year
In this article I shall examine the interrelationship between lifecycle ritual, in the form of disposal of the unclean dead, and certain agrarian concerns and rituals of the Russian rural community relating to the early summer and, more specifically, to the Whitsun period. In so doing I hope to shed some further light on a puzzling belief; namely that the interment, both in consecrated ground and in earth generally, of the unclean dead could caus…
Death by Lightning: For Sinner or Saint? Beliefs from Novosokol'niki Region, Pskov Province, Russia
Death by Lightning: An Ambivalent Fate The present short paper provides some additional material for an article of mine, recently published in Folklore, which was based on fieldwork carried out in Novosokol'niki region, Pskov province, Russia in 1995 (Warner 2000a; 2000b). The article was concerned with category of the dead traditionally regarded by the Russian peasantry as unclean. In addition to suicides, this category included many others who …
Russian Peasant Beliefs and Practices Concerning Death and the Supernatural Collected in Novosokol'niki Region, Pskov Province, Russia, 1995. Part II: Death in Natural Circumstances
This article, based on fieldwork but drawing on other contemporary and historical material, examines some aspects of the present state of mortuary ritual and associated beliefs among a mixed population of official Russian Orthodox and the religious group known as Old Believers, about whose funerary practices little has been written. The ritual emerges as a complex balance of Christian and pagan elements, a clinging to archaic tradition combined w…
Russian Peasant Beliefs and Practices Concerning Death and the Supernatural Collected in Novosokol'niki Region, Pskov Province, Russia, 1995. Part I: The Restless Dead, Wizards and Spirit Beings
Fieldwork in a remote area of rural Russia, a rare opportunity for an ethnographer from western Europe, provided the basic material for this article. Its findings, presented in a historical perspective, reveal a significant degree of continuity with beliefs and practices of the past in spite of the pressures of an official ideology opposed to all aspects of the supernatural
Russian Traditional Folksong
Collection and Study of Ethnographical Material in Russia
The history of ethnography in Russia could be said to begin with the comments of those twelfth-century monks, compilers of the Chronicles, on the marriage customs of the pagan forebears of the East Slavs, who ‘seized their brides by the waterside’ or kidnapped them during inter-village games when there was ‘dancing and the singing of devilish songs’. However, to be more selective, and taking as a starting point Tokarev's view that the history of …
The Quack Doctor in the Russian Folk and Popular Theatre
VIOLET Alford wrote: 'In the farces, still sometimes played in La Soule, a Doctor often appears. He tells boastfully of his travels and the far countries in which he learnt his work. Apres avoir fait le tour de la Prussie, et de la Russie, de l'Angleterre et de la Turquie je suis revenu chez moi: In almost the same words does the Doctor of our Mummers' Play extol himself. It is quite likely that the Masquerade Doctor used the same stock phrases. …
Russian Peasant Beliefs and Practices Concerning Death and the Supernatural Collected in Novosokol'niki Region, Pskov Province, Russia, 1995. Part I: The Restless Dead, Wizards and Spirit Beings
Fieldwork in a remote area of rural Russia, a rare opportunity for an ethnographer from western Europe, provided the basic material for this article. Its findings, presented in a historical perspective, reveal a significant degree of continuity with beliefs and practices of the past in spite of the pressures of an official ideology opposed to all aspects of the supernatural
Russian Peasant Beliefs and Practices Concerning Death and the Supernatural Collected in Novosokol'niki Region, Pskov Province, Russia, 1995. Part II: Death in Natural Circumstances
This article, based on fieldwork but drawing on other contemporary and historical material, examines some aspects of the present state of mortuary ritual and associated beliefs among a mixed population of official Russian Orthodox and the religious group known as Old Believers, about whose funerary practices little has been written. The ritual emerges as a complex balance of Christian and pagan elements, a clinging to archaic tradition combined w…
Russian Peasant Beliefs Concerning the Unclean Dead and Drought, Within the Context of the Agricultural Year
In this article I shall examine the interrelationship between lifecycle ritual, in the form of disposal of the unclean dead, and certain agrarian concerns and rituals of the Russian rural community relating to the early summer and, more specifically, to the Whitsun period. In so doing I hope to shed some further light on a puzzling belief; namely that the interment, both in consecrated ground and in earth generally, of the unclean dead could caus…
The Quack Doctor in the Russian Folk and Popular Theatre
VIOLET Alford wrote: 'In the farces, still sometimes played in La Soule, a Doctor often appears. He tells boastfully of his travels and the far countries in which he learnt his work. Apres avoir fait le tour de la Prussie, et de la Russie, de l'Angleterre et de la Turquie je suis revenu chez moi: In almost the same words does the Doctor of our Mummers' Play extol himself. It is quite likely that the Masquerade Doctor used the same stock phrases. …
Collection and Study of Ethnographical Material in Russia
The history of ethnography in Russia could be said to begin with the comments of those twelfth-century monks, compilers of the Chronicles, on the marriage customs of the pagan forebears of the East Slavs, who ‘seized their brides by the waterside’ or kidnapped them during inter-village games when there was ‘dancing and the singing of devilish songs’. However, to be more selective, and taking as a starting point Tokarev's view that the history of …
Russian Traditional Folksong
Russian Peasant Beliefs and Practices Concerning Death and the Supernatural Collected in Novosokol'niki Region, Pskov Province, Russia, 1995. Part II: Death in Natural Circumstances
This article, based on fieldwork but drawing on other contemporary and historical material, examines some aspects of the present state of mortuary ritual and associated beliefs among a mixed population of official Russian Orthodox and the religious group known as Old Believers, about whose funerary practices little has been written. The ritual emerges as a complex balance of Christian and pagan elements, a clinging to archaic tradition combined w…
Russian Peasant Beliefs and Practices Concerning Death and the Supernatural Collected in Novosokol'niki Region, Pskov Province, Russia, 1995. Part I: The Restless Dead, Wizards and Spirit Beings
Fieldwork in a remote area of rural Russia, a rare opportunity for an ethnographer from western Europe, provided the basic material for this article. Its findings, presented in a historical perspective, reveal a significant degree of continuity with beliefs and practices of the past in spite of the pressures of an official ideology opposed to all aspects of the supernatural
Death by Lightning: For Sinner or Saint? Beliefs from Novosokol'niki Region, Pskov Province, Russia
Death by Lightning: An Ambivalent Fate The present short paper provides some additional material for an article of mine, recently published in Folklore, which was based on fieldwork carried out in Novosokol'niki region, Pskov province, Russia in 1995 (Warner 2000a; 2000b). The article was concerned with category of the dead traditionally regarded by the Russian peasantry as unclean. In addition to suicides, this category included many others who …
Russian Peasant Beliefs Concerning the Unclean Dead and Drought, Within the Context of the Agricultural Year
In this article I shall examine the interrelationship between lifecycle ritual, in the form of disposal of the unclean dead, and certain agrarian concerns and rituals of the Russian rural community relating to the early summer and, more specifically, to the Whitsun period. In so doing I hope to shed some further light on a puzzling belief; namely that the interment, both in consecrated ground and in earth generally, of the unclean dead could caus…
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