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Reading the Fortune: Fortune-Telling Books in Russia (the Second Half of the XVIIth-XXth Centuries)

Scientific Edition

( Serie Nation and Culture. New Studies; Anthropology )
Publisher
O.G.I
Published in
M.
Year
2007
Pages
256
Volume1
256
Illustrations and maps
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Hard
Circulation
2000 copies
Weight
0.380 kg
ISBN
978-5-94282-397-9
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The monograph by British researcher F.Wigzell represents one of the first special studies of Russian fortune-telling books of the second half of the XVIIth-XXth centuries. It provides a thorough investigation of the evolution of fortune-telling book genre and its role in the context of traditional magic practices. Special attention is drawn to the stereotypes of male and female “fortune-telling behavior”.
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