Open AccessAnastasians of Altai krai. The history of the family estates settlements and their current realities
Author(s) -
I. V. Oktyabrskaya,
Ethnography Sb Rаs,
Z. M. Chirkina
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
ètnografiâ altaâ i sopredelʹnyh territorij
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2687-0592
DOI - 10.37386/2687-0592-2020-10-56-59
Subject(s) - peasant , human settlement , ethnic group , slavic languages , ideology , subculture (biology) , politics , identity (music) , reading (process) , ethnology , history , geography , sociology , anthropology , political science , archaeology , classics , art , law , botany , biology , aesthetics
The Anastasia movement (“Ringing Cedars of Russia”, the Anastasians) was born in Russia in the mid-1990s under the influence of the publication of V. Megre’s works. It developed from reading clubs and festivals to big projects of family estates and the form of political party. In the Altai region (Altai krai) we can registrate 12 settlements at different stages of formation. In religious studies, the anastasians are considered as the one of the new religious movements that is based on the ideology and practices related to Slavic neo-paganism. In Russian Ethnology/anthropology there are attempts to characterize the Anastasians in terms of subculture, as a community with a complex identity that includes a quasi-ethnic plane. Their culture is based on the natural peasant economy. The main concept of self-organization is the idea of family estates.