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Riazanskie svadebnye ritualy “katit’ stupu” i “ovin tushit'”

[Wedding Rituals katit’ stupu and ovin tushit’ in the Ryazan Region]

Type of publication: Research Article

About author(s)

Elena Samodelova | helsa@rambler.ruu | Gorky Institute of World Literature, Russian Academy of Sciences

Keywords

folk wedding, russia, ryazan, wedding train, wedding songs, wedding sayings

Abstract

Drawn on the field and archival data collected in the Ryazan region, the article examines the ritual of dispatching a wedding train for the wedding ceremony with stupa (mortar) as an important attribute of the ritual, symbolizing “burning” or “combustion”. The author uses an array of sources including descriptions of weddings and various genres of wedding folklore (wedding songs, sayings, proverbs, etc.) of the 19 th-21 st centuries, as well as folk vocabularies that help to reveal the semantics of the rituals investigated.

Citation

Samodelova, E.A. 2015. Riazanskie svadebnye ritualy “katit’ stupu” i “ovin tushit'” [Wedding Rituals katit’ stupu and ovin tushit’ in the Ryazan Region]. Etnograficheskoe obozrenie 6: 134-151

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