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| | Departments and Programs -- Ch5: 2000-2001 UVa Graduate Record |
 | | Examines the Slavic epic and related poetic forms, namely historical songs, ballads, religious songs, and beggars' chants; prose narratives believed to be "true"; legends, fabulates and memorates; and performers, their social position, relationship to the church, and their learning and transmission techniques. |
 | | Examines Russian and Ukrainian lower mythology; the spirits of the house, the barn, the field, the stream, and the forest. |
 | | Explores East Slavic ethnography, including house and village layout, folk decorative arts, clothing types, food, the relation of farming and the agricultural calendar year to agrarian magic, festival, and ritual. |
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