Russian Ethnicity Phenomenon in the Internet Sources – between High and Popular Culture 3620-REPIS-H-OG

Tematy pierwszych spotkań/wykładów:
1. Rosyjskie badania etnologiczne nad Słowianami;
2. Narodziny w tradycji rosyjskiej;
3. Śmierć w tradycji rosyjskiej;
4. Wesele w tradycji rosyjskiej;
5. Demonologia w rosyjskiej tradycji ludowej - miejsce prawosławia.

W cyklu 2023L:

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.

Koordynatorzy przedmiotu

Łukasz Władyka

Przedmiot dedykowany programowi

4EU+KURSY

Rodzaj przedmiotu

ogólnouniwersyteckie

Kryteria oceniania

egzamin pisemny lub ustny

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