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Antropologicheskij forum, 2015, no. 27
Dmitry Mukhin Vologda Open Air Museum of Architecture & Ethnography “Semenkovo” Abstract: This paper examines the question of how traditional peasant ideas (specifically — the idea that working on holydays is sinful), and local officials’ understanding of the law at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries shaped the administrative practise of the peasant local government. Peasants accepted resolutions to ban work on holidays in order to affirm the community’s right to punish violators of the ban. Local officials could consider the resolution, which introduced penalties, to contradict existing legislation. Therefore, the country administration could use additional references to the law in resolutions or refuse to approve the resolution. The assembly’s resolutions could not only establish sanctions on violators of the ban, but could also define the conceptual boundaries of “work”. These boundaries changed depending on external conditions. Therefore different activities (collecting mushrooms and berries, hunting etc.) could be considered “work” (or not) during different years, and therefore, they could be allowed or forbidden on holidays. Other kinds of activities could be removed from the ban upon being marked as “holyday” activities (for example, a haymaking or pomoch). Keywords: peasant local government, peasant assemblies, working, holyday. To cite: Mukhin D., '“V prazdniki obyazuemsya ne rabotat”: k voprosu o krestyanskom obshchestvennom upravlenii v Vologodskoy gubernii v kontse XIX — nachale XX v.' [“On Holidays We Promise Not to Work”: On the Question of Peasant Local Government in the Vologda Province at the End of 19th — the Beginning of the 20th Century], Antropologicheskij forum, 2015, no. 27, pp. 70–96. URL: http://anthropologie.kunstkamera.ru/files/pdf/027/mukhin.pdf |
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