Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby is a professor in the Department of Modern & Classical Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Kentucky. She is the author of Village Values: Negotiating Identity, Gender, and Resistance in Contemporary Urban Russian Life-Cycle Rituals.
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List of Illustrations Note on Transliteration Introduction Chapter 1. Negotiating Religious and Secular Memory Chapter 2. Interacting with the Holy Springs: Ritual, Pilgrimage, and Tourism Chapter 3. Legends of the Holy Springs Chapter 4. Politics of the Holy Springs Chapter 5. Healing and Medicine Chapter 6. Ecology of the Holy Springs Conclusion: Haunted by the Past Acknowledgments Notes References Index
"A completely original, fascinating study about the social work of Gulag memory in contemporary Siberia. The research is beyond complete, the book's reasoning is sound, and its ethnography is vivid." - Benjamin Gatling, author of Migration Stories: Connecting Activism, Policy, and Scholarship "A marvelous entwinement of memory studies with vernacular religiosity; environmentalism with the sacred; and the Stalinist legacy of the Gulag with nature's beauty. This one-of-a-kind book is a must-read for anyone interested in how attitudes toward religion, the environment, and history coalesce in contemporary Russia." - Catherine Wanner, author of Everyday Religiosity and the Politics of Belonging in Ukraine