Calendar customs of the Semeiskie communities in Krasnochikoysky District of the Trans-Baikal Territory (late XIXth – first third of the XXth centuries) in a comparative perspective

Authors

  • ELENA F. FURSOVA Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24866/1997-2857/2023-4/7-18

Keywords:

ethnocultural memory, calendrical rites, Old Believers, Semeiskie communities, Krasnochikoysky District, Transbaikalia

Abstract

The article identifies the general and special in the calendrical rites and customs of the Old Believers who lived in the valley of the Chikoy River at the end of the XIXth – first third of the XXth centuries in comparison with Russian and Siberian (West Siberian) rites and customs. The author comes to the conclusion that traditional culture of the Semeiskie communities incorporated the components of Northern Russian, Siberian («old settlers») and Western (Bryansk-Gomel) descent.

Author Biography

  • ELENA F. FURSOVA, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences

    Doctor of Historical Sciences, Leading Researcher at the Department of Ethnography

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Published

13-12-2023

Issue

No. 4 (2023): Humanitarian research in the Eastern Siberia and the Far East

Section

TRANSFORMATIONS OF IDENTITY AND ETHNOCULTURAL MEMORY PEOPLES OF ASIAN RUSSIA

How to Cite

Calendar customs of the Semeiskie communities in Krasnochikoysky District of the Trans-Baikal Territory (late XIXth – first third of the XXth centuries) in a comparative perspective. (2023). Humanitarian Research in the Eastern Siberia and the Far East, 4, 7-18. https://doi.org/10.24866/1997-2857/2023-4/7-18