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Reference Question Answered: Discussion of Russian Funeral Rites As Depicted in the 2006 Film V poiskakh schast’ia (In Search of Happiness) |
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| Authors: | Jon C Giullian |
| Abstract: | ABSTRACT. The author answers a reference question on the depiction of a funeral in the 2006 Russian documentary film V poiskakh schast’ia (In Search of Happiness), which takes place in the Jewish Autonomous Region in Siberia. Consultations and reference sources show that what was depicted was not Jewish, but a typical Russian civil funeral procession. Helpful publications included historical and historical‐ethnographic monographs and an ethnographic encyclopedia. |
| Keywords: | Russia Russian film V poiskakh schast’ia In Search of Happiness funeral rites funeral customs reference sources library |