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Reading Russian Fortunes - Print Culture, Gender and Divination in Russia from 1765 (Paperback, New ed)
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Reading Russian Fortunes - Print Culture, Gender and Divination in Russia from 1765 (Paperback, New ed)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature
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Reading Russian Fortunes examines the huge popularity and cultural
impact of fortune-telling among urban and literate Russians from
the eighteenth century to the present. Based partly on a study of
the numerous editions of little fortune-telling books, especially
those devoted to dream interpretation, it documents and analyses
the social history of fortune-telling in terms of class and gender,
at the same time considering the function of both amateur and
professional fortune-telling in a literate modernizing society.
Chapters are devoted to professional fortune-tellers and their
clients, and to the publishers of the books. An analysis of the
relationship between urban fortune-telling and traditional oral
culture, where divination played a very significant role, leads on
to a discussion of the underlying reasons for the persistence of
fortune-telling in modern Russian society.
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