| Titre | Soviet anthropology and contemporary rituals | |
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| Auteur | Natalya Sadomskaya | |
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Revue |
Cahiers du monde russe Titre à cette date : Cahiers du monde russe et soviétique |
| Numéro | volume 31, no 2-3, avril-septembre 1990 Regards sur l'anthropologie soviétique | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | I |
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| Page | 245-255 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Natalya Sadomskaya, Soviet anthropology and contemporary rituals.
Following the Revolution of 1917, the traditional forms of folk rituals in the USSR were subject to suppression. This situation reflected the fact that these traditional rituals were of religious character, and the State was engaged in a concerted effort to stamp out religion.
Consequently, old customs (Christian, Moslem, tribal) became to a considerable extent levelled. The need for the ritual expression became an essential factor in the rebirth of the traditional religion of each ethnic group. In this connection, the Government of the USSR charged the scholarly institutes with the study of the "survivals of the old life-style," and the means to overcome such survivals, and creating new "socialist ritual forms."
Since 1960 there has been amassed in the USSR a considerable body of data to permit an evaluation of this unique experiment. In this paper, I shall focus on the role of Soviet anthropologists in the evaluation and construction of the "new folk ritual forms." Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/cmr_0008-0160_1990_num_31_2_2222 |
