https://orcid.org/0000–0003–3446–4949.
E-mail: andrvlasov@yandex.ru Tel. +7 (812) 328-19-01
4, Makarova emb., St. Petersburg, 199034, Russian Federation
Grand PhD (Philology), professor, head of the Department of Russian Folklore Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House), Russian Academy of Sciences
EKATERINA A. DOROKHOVA
https://orcid.org/0000–0002–2127–0144
E-mail: ekatdorokhova@yandex.ru Tel.: +7 (812) 328-19-01
4, Makarova emb., St. Petersburg, 199034, Russian Federation
PhD (Arts), senior researcher, Department of Russian Folklore, Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House), Russian Academy of Sciences
Tel.: +7 (495) 621-91-17
3–8, Sverchkov side-str., Moscow, 101000, Russian Federation
Deputy director for research, Center for Russian Folklore, Polenov State Russian House of Folk Art
The article contains a brief presentation of some common regional and local ethnographic and folklore features of the Lower Vychegda wedding in the Russian North. The authors point to its intermediate (“borderline”) position, determining its significance in understanding of the oral traditional culture of the Northern Dvina, which has been the historical and cultural “axis” of the entire Russian North. The amount of traditional knowledge fits into the generally accepted, standard and very limited set of ritual practices and folklore texts representing the culture of the majority, and representing the cultural “resource” of tradition, capable only of establishing mechanisms of self-identification and self-preservation of the society. It emphasizes its gender character as a predominantly “female text”.
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