Русский семейно-обрядовый фольклор Сибири и Дальнего Востока. - 2002. (Т. 22.)

typological features o f the Siberian branch o f family ritual folklore linking it with pan-Russian phenomena. They also illustrate the regional (and even highly local) diversity o f the wedding and funeral rituals that deve­ loped in Siberia over the course o f four centuries. The first part o f the volume «Russian Family and Ritual Folklore o f Siberia and the Far East», entitled «The Wedding Poetry», was prepared by R.P. Potanina and N.V. Leonova. The corpus o f folkloric texts includes 313 examples (120 of them are with musical scores) grouped into eleven sections on the basis o f ethnographic systematization o f the material. These sections reflect the structure and sequence o f events within the Siberian wedding — from courtship to the wedding feast in the groom’s home after the church ceremony. Each o f the chosen song cycles is accompanied by the compiler’s introduction explaining the given stage of the wedding, the relevant ritual activities, and their participants. Texts o f wedding folklore appear with introductory articles by the scholars who prepared them. R.P. Potanina’s philological arti c le briefly summarizes the history o f the collection and study o f ethnographic and folkloric material on the Siberian wedding. I t characterizes the main regional versions o f the ritual and the folkloric repertoire (West Siberian, East Siberian, and Far Eastern), and points out the distinguishing traits of the wedding ritual o f the Siberian Cossacks and of one Siberian religious minority, the Old Believers (Old Ritualists). In addition, the author estab­ lishes the genre composition of wedding folklore and characterizes its various subgroups. The musicologists N.V. Leonova and N.A. Ursegova pay closest atten­ tion to the musical systematization and characteristic features o f the wedding repertoire o f the Siberian Old Residents, a Russian population group that formed in Siberia as a result o f migrational processes of the 17th and 18th centuries. The authors trace the sources o f this repertoire to traditions o f the Russian North. The authors divide all the ritual folklore songs performed during the wedding into three groups, based on their function in the ritual and their stylistic features. The many facets of these complexes and the particularities o f their coordination within the wedding ritual are the article’s primary topic. The second half of the volume, entitled «Funeral laments», was pre­ pared by L.E. Fetisova and N.V. Leonova. This part begins with an article by the linguist L.E. Fetisova that introduces key questions about the exis­ tence of the funeral ritual in Siberia and its study. The author’s primary attention is given to problems of coordinating ritual (functional and