L'étude de la société traditionnelle russe dans l'ethnographie soviétique

In: Cahiers du monde russe et soviétique, Volume 31, Issue 2, p. 257-264

Abstract

Kirill V. Chistov, The Russian traditional society in Soviet ethnography.
The present day situation in Russian ethnography took its shape in the second half of the 1950's and the early 1960's as characterized by a harmonious blend between ethnography of the past and ethnography of the present. The subsequent decades have seen an intensive development of the following trends: ethnogenesis and ethnic history of the Eastern Slavs and the Russians; ethnocultural history as based on written documents and archival materials as well as museum collections; ethnographical cartography; typology of the phenomena of material and intellectual culture; studies in the local groups of people including those living in alien national media; urban ethnography from the Middle Ages to the present; studies in archaic forms of social organization (community, family, sex-age groups, ethics and common law in the old village); studies in the role and forms of functioning of ethnic traditions in die contemporary world (city, family, contemporary art, industrial production); folkloristics, its historical and modern problems; elaboration of a series of generalizing works.