Forum for Anthropology and Culture, 2022, no. 18

A Review of JEANNE KORMINA, PALOMNIKI: ETNOGRAFICHESKIE OCHERKI PRAVOSLAVNOGO NOMADIZMA [PILGRIMS: ETHNOGRAPHIC SKETCHES OF ORTHODOX NOMADISM]. Moscow: Higher School of Economics, 2019, 349 pp.

Kaarina Aitamurto

Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki
33 Unioninkatu, Helsinki, Finland
kaarina.aitamurto()helsinki.fi

Abstract: This book draws attention to Orthodox religiosity in contemporary Russia in terms of the religious practices (lived religion) that take place outside the walls of the church and outside the Church as an institution. The study approaches the topic from an innovative theoretical frame, religious nomadism, and analyses such phenomena as pilgrimages, sacred sites, saints and Orthodox fairs. The book collects some of the main findings and theoretical insights from Jeanne Kormina’s long experience in ethnographic fieldwork among Russian Orthodox Christians and is a welcome contribution to research on vernacular Orthodoxy in contemporary Russia.

Keywords: pilgrimage, Orthodoxy, nomadism, holy places, saints.

To cite: Aitamurto K., ‘A Review of Jeanne Kormina, Palomniki: etnograficheskie ocherki pravoslavnogo nomadizma [Pilgrims: Ethnographic Sketches of Orthodox Nomadism]. Moscow: Higher School of Economics, 2019, 349 pp.’, Forum for Anthropology and Culture, 2022, no. 18, pp. 223–229.

doi: 10.31250/1815-8927-2022-18-18-223-229

URL: http://anthropologie.kunstkamera.ru/files/pdf/eng018/aitamurto.pdf