Le vieil homme et le livre. La crise de la transmission chez les vieux-croyants (Roumanie)
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| Title | Le vieil homme et le livre. La crise de la transmission chez les vieux-croyants (Roumanie) |
| Publication Type | Journal Article |
| Authors | Naumescu, V. |
| Journal title | Terrain |
| Year | 2010 |
| Pages | 72-89 |
| Volume | Transmettre |
| Issue | 55 |
| Abstract | In spite of recent critique, anthropology has yet to acknowledge the temporal ontologies that mark its conceptions of cultural transmission, the “continuity thinking” that dominates anthropological investigations. Arguing that any ethnography of cultural transmission should engage systematically with issues of temporality and historicity, I show in this paper how Old Believers, a schismatic Russian Orthodox movement, cultivates an everyday millenarianism informed by distinct temporalities. Stemming from an Orthodox tradition which affirms continuity, Old Believers developed a concrete perception of the finitude of this world and awareness of the apocalyptic moment. In response to historical circumstances they embraced a kenotic conception of Christian life which is embedded in particular modalities of religious transmission. |
| Language | french |
| Publisher link | http://terrain.revues.org/14065 |