Russian ethnicity phenomenon in the internet sources – between high and popular culture

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Conservatory, so it will combine lectures with discussion and individual presentations.

We will start with about 5-6 meetings devoted to the issues of

1. Internet sources;

2. The issues of Russian folklore: legends, fairy tales, demonology, wedding and funeral customs, birth, illness, death, Orthodoxy.

Then each person will choose a topic for their presentation. You can propose any topic related to Russian culture, politics, customs, and art. Topics in the field of high culture (music, ballet, literature, poetry), but also popular culture, as well as urban and youth subcultures. Each of the presentations will be discussed in the group and assessed together, although the final assessment belongs to the lecturer.

Conservatory, so it will combine lectures with discussion and individual presentations. We

will start with about 5-6 meetings devoted to the issues of 1. Internet sources; 2. The issues of

Russian folklore: legends, fairy tales, demonology, wedding and funeral customs, birth,

illness, death, Orthodoxy. Then each person will choose a topic for their presentation. You

can propose any topic related to Russian culture, politics, customs, and art. Topics in the field

of high culture (music, ballet, literature, poetry), but also popular culture, as well as urban and

youth subcultures. Each of the presentations will be discussed in the group and assessed

together, although the final assessment belongs to the lecturer.

Topics of the first meetings/lectures:

1. Russian ethnological research on the Slavs;

2. Birth in the Russian tradition;

3. Death in the Russian tradition;

4. A wedding in the Russian tradition;

5. Demonology in the Russian folk tradition - the place of Orthodoxy.

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Tabachnikova ; translation editor, Elizabeth Harrison, Christopher Tooke, Leiden,

Netherlands ; Boston, Massachusetts: Brill 2016.

Daniel Rancour-Laferriere, The slave soul of Russia: moral masochism and the cult of

suffering, New York University Press 1995.

The study of Russian folklore / edited and translated, by Felix J. Oinas and Stephen

Soudakoff,

Hague; Paris: Mouton 1975.

Mass Culture in Soviet Russia Tales, Poems, Songs, Movies, Plays, and Folklore, 1917–1953,

edited by James von Geldern and Richard Stites, Bloomington: Indiana University Press

c1995.

Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folklore, The Floating Press 2014.

Laura J. Olson, Performing Russia: folk revival and Russian identity, New York:

RoutledgeCurzon 2004.

Cultures in flux lower-class values, practices, and resistance in late Imperial Russia, edited

by Stephen P. Frank and Mark D. Steinberg, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

c1994.