Reading Russian Fortunes: Print Culture, Gender and Divination in Russia from 1765

Reading Russian Fortunes: Print Culture, Gender and Divination in Russia from 1765 This is the first full-length study of the huge cultural impact of fortune-telling in Russia from the eighteenth century to the present. It discusses the links between urban fortune-telling and traditional oral culture the particular role of women, and discusses why fortune-telling is still a powerful force in Russian. Autor: Faith (University of London) Wigzell Wydawnictwo: Cambridge University Press Rok wydania: 1998 Okładka: twarda Liczba stron: 266 Wymiary: 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm Ilustracje: 7 Halftones, unspecified Język: angielski ISBN: 9780521581233