Археология русской смерти. Этнография похоронного дела в современной России by Сергей Мохов

Этнография похоронного дела в современной России

An ethnographic portrait of the contemporary Russian funeral sphere, tracing how families, officials, clergy, and entrepreneurs navigate death from morgue to cemetery. Drawing on fieldwork, it exposes the bureaucratic labyrinth, informal networks, and moral economies that shape services, prices, and rituals, while examining the material culture of graves and mourning. Placing current practices in historical context from Soviet legacies to post-Soviet marketization, it reveals how attitudes toward mortality, memory, and public space are negotiated in everyday life.