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Since 1989 Panorama of Russia has specialized in academic and reference publications from the Russian Federation and the Commonwealth of Independent States.
The author describes the mythology of the female body, and of erotic life as they are presented in the Slavic cultural tradition, and supports her description with ethno-linguistic analysis. The study is focused on woman and her numerous functions and roles. It is based on folklore field studies in Poles`e, an ethnocultural community located in the European part of the FSU, in Belorussia, Russia, and Ukraine. Contents: Concept of the body: Etiology and symbols; Birth and development of the body; Childhood and adolescence: Knowing your body; The Wedding: Female initiation; Female physiology; The Female and the division of labor; Death: Separation of the soul from the body. Subject and lexico-phraseological indices. Bibliography.
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