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PhD Candidate, Department of Literature and World Art Culture, Amur State University
ANNA A. ZABIYAKO
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21 Ignatievskoe Highway, Blagoveshchensk, 675027, Russian Federation
DSc in Philology, Professor, Head of the Department of Literature and World Art Culture, Amur State University
Family photo collections of several generations of Trekhrechye Russians (Sanhe District) are of intrinsic interest in terms of familial historical experience and the traditions and customs they capture. Story-memories accompanying the viewing of photos in family albums deserve special attention from the point of view of folklore. This article explores the stories taken from the life of Russian-Chinese families that accompany the viewing of photographic collections; these may be seen as the text of a “family chronicle”. Which narratives arise situationally, how do stories accompanying the same photographs differ depending on the informant? Images captured in photographs and narratives concerning them help to clarify aspects of the ethno-cultural identity of the residents of Trekhrechye not observed in previously collected materials. The process of examining the family photo album of Ivan Dementiev and Anna Pervoukhinoy and its narrativization allows us to record new information about the emergence of the Russian-Chinese family; about ethnic and cultural preferences within this family; about intergenerational relations within the “big family” (clan); about the attitude towards relatives who went to the USSR; and, in general, their attitudes about Russian and Soviet people. In considering the photos, a biographical and interpretive approach is used, as well as methods of participant observation, live conversation, description, and narrative analysis.
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