Anthropology of Thing: Traditional Textiles in the Context of Ritual Practices in the Late 19th — Early 21st Centuries
[Antropologiia veshchi: Traditsionnyi tekstil’ v kontekste ritual’nykh praktik kontsa XIX — nachala XXI vv.]
Type of publication: Research Article
Submitted: 04.11.2016
Accepted: 04.04.2017
About author(s)
Yelena Samoylova | http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1424-1908 | etnograd@mail.ru | Rimsky-Korsakov St. Petersburg State Conservatory (3 Teatralnaia Sq., St. Petersburg, 190000, Russia)
Keywords
female cloth possessions, rituals, authority, memory, tradition, commemoration of the dead, textiles
Abstract
The article focuses on fabric objects executed in traditional technique and hand made by women. Some of them have maintained their relevance up to the present day, while others have lost value and have fallen out of everyday use. Why? How important is ritual in the lives of these objects, and generally in the preservation and development of women’s art of creating fabric? The article examines the case of use of textiles in death commemoration rituals in the Bryansk region and particularly the role of women in carrying those out.
Citation
Samoylova, Ye.V. 2018. Anthropology of Thing: Traditional Textiles in the Context of Ritual Practices in the Late 19th — Early 21st Centuries [Antropologiia veshchi: Traditsionnyi tekstil’ v kontekste ritual’nykh praktik kontsa XIX — nachala XXI vv.]. Etnograficheskoe obozrenie 2: 154-174. https://doi.org/10.7868/S0869541518020112
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