Anu Korb. Rõžkovo virulased pärimuskultuuri kandjana. Tartu 2007
Book on Virulased in Ryzhkovo village as transmitters of lore culture. Anu Korb. Rõžkovo virulased pärimuskultuuri kandjana. Tartu 2007

Summary/Abstract: Anu Korb, who has in the past dozen of years published a number of articles about Estonian diaspora in Russia, commented anthologies and a monograph on the methods of folkloristic fieldwork, has now completed a book, in which she observes the development history of a highly unique community and old lore material survived up to the present day. The community, who refer to themselves as Virulased, inhabit the settlement of Ryzhkovo, the earliest known Lutheran village (founded in about 1803), in the Krutinka district (about 220 km northwest from Omsk). The monograph ‘Virulased in Ryzhkovo village as transmitters of lore culture’, published as issue 24 of the series Estonian Folklore Archive Proceedings, consists of five articles, the four latter of which are folkloristic studies of the community’s song repertoire, folk calendar, popular healing tradition and funeral tradition, while the opening article focuses on the general introduction and background of the community. The author has provided a preface introducing the Estonian diaspora and studies in the diaspora; the book concludes with a general conclusion, the explication of terms, a thorough list of sources and references, and summaries in English and Russian

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