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Sergei Kan. Memory Eternal: Tlingit Culture and Russian Orthodox Christianity Through Two Centuries. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999. xxxi, 665 pp. $60.00.

Sergei Kan. Memory Eternal: Tlingit Culture and Russian Orthodox Christianity Through Two... constituted crimes, proper procedure and fair punishment differed markedly from that o f the governing class, but it was firmly established. Moreover, peasants wanted more, not less, law enforcement and felt terribly vulnerable in the face o f growing crime r a t e s . ' T h e y did not trust the ability o f the police to combat effectively large criminal gangs that terrorized the villages. They saw the courts as excessively lenient in dealing with the bandits, horse thieves and arsonists who threatened their lives and livelihoods, and as indulgent to those who committed crimes o f personal violence. As a result, peasants were convinced that established institutions offered little or no jus- tice and frequently resorted to vigilantism (samosuc � , which often took cruel, brutal and even murderous forms. Although Frank sees the peasants as the victims o f an inadequate and unfair crimi- nal justice system, he does not deny that their world was marked by ignorance and a high degree o f superstition. Not only did the peasants have to struggle against bandits and other criminal elements, they also had to cope with supernatural forces as well. Sorcerers, demons http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Canadian-American Slavic Studies Brill

Sergei Kan. Memory Eternal: Tlingit Culture and Russian Orthodox Christianity Through Two Centuries. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999. xxxi, 665 pp. $60.00.

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Canadian-American Slavic Studies , Volume 35 (2-3): 293 – Jan 1, 2001
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© 2001 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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constituted crimes, proper procedure and fair punishment differed markedly from that o f the governing class, but it was firmly established. Moreover, peasants wanted more, not less, law enforcement and felt terribly vulnerable in the face o f growing crime r a t e s . ' T h e y did not trust the ability o f the police to combat effectively large criminal gangs that terrorized the villages. They saw the courts as excessively lenient in dealing with the bandits, horse thieves and arsonists who threatened their lives and livelihoods, and as indulgent to those who committed crimes o f personal violence. As a result, peasants were convinced that established institutions offered little or no jus- tice and frequently resorted to vigilantism (samosuc � , which often took cruel, brutal and even murderous forms. Although Frank sees the peasants as the victims o f an inadequate and unfair crimi- nal justice system, he does not deny that their world was marked by ignorance and a high degree o f superstition. Not only did the peasants have to struggle against bandits and other criminal elements, they also had to cope with supernatural forces as well. Sorcerers, demons

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