BOUNDARY THROUGH THE CONTEXT OF CEMETERY SPACE (Hranica v kontexte priestoru cintorina)

• Authors: Jagerova Margita
• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

During the history of man the burying ground had its role and meaning, depended on historical period, and type of society. In our culture complex of the cemetery is understood as a place of final separation of dead person from the society of living and also the place connected with a new special kind of relationship, which arise thanks to death of some close person. This place is still full of symbols, signs, information, and it is a presentation of values, attitudes towards the death and life. The paper deals with the problem of interpretation of cemetery boundaries, their meaning and role in contemporary countryside culture in Slovakia (regions Nitra, Hont, Horehronie, Liptov). The paper also analyses the borders within the cemetery itself, the segmentation of this place in accordance to ethnic, confessional, age, social differentiations.

Keywords

EN

BURIAL CUSTOMS; CEMETARY; CEMETARY BOUNDARY; SLOVAKIA

Discipline

• ETHNOLOGY: ETHNOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Ethnology, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovenský národopis (Slovak Ethnology)
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 57
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 454-466
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Jagerova Margita

• Margita Jagerova, Katedra etnologie a etnomuzikologie, FF UKF Nitra, Slovak Republic; www.uet.sav.sk/slovenskynarodopis.htm

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10SKAAAA081919