Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Archive References and Abbreviations -- Note on Transliteration and Translation -- Introduction: People, Places, and Approaches -- 1. Beliefs about the Soul, the Living Dead, and the Afterlife in Contemporary Rural North Russia -- 2. Ritual Feeding and the Cult of Ancestors -- 3. The Lament: A Language for Communicating with the Dead -- 4. The Cross, the Birch, and the Kawasaki Motorbike: The Visual Rhetoric of Russian Rural Cemeteries in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
5. The Russian Semik-Troitsa (Trinity) Ritual Complex: A Deconstruction of the Public and Private Faces of Ritual, or "A Festival of Life and Death" -- 6. The Story of the Eternal Flame: Ritual Memorial Sites of the Soviet Era -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index
