Reading Russian Fortunes
Faith (University of London) Wigzell
Cambridge University Press, 2006
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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.
- ISBN-13
- 9780521024792
- ISBN-10
- 052102479X
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Year
- 2006
- Publication date
- 2006-03-16
- Pages
- 268
- Dimensions
- 151x229x20
- Weight
- 410