The rhythmic organization of the labor practice (as exemplified by ritual chopping of cabbage in Boksitogorsk area of Leningrad region)

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Key words
rhythm, «kapustki», chopping of cabbage, chopper, labour practices
Author
Samoylova E.
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The author examines woman’s labour practices, which was concerned with growing of cabbage and its chopping. Attention is focused on the rhythmical organization one. Rhythm has been analysed in the context of its specific manifestation in the ritual so and in the wide sense, as housekeeping Source, which is opposed to Chaos.