PREDSTAVA O POSTAVE SMRTI – ŠTÚDIUM KULTÚRNEHO JAVU V SLOVENSKEJ A NEMECKEJ JAZYKOVEJ SKUPINE NA SLOVENSKU

• Authors: Gabriela Kiliánová

Title variants

EN

Idea of the figure of death – a study of a cultural phenomenon in the Slovak and German language group in Slovakia

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

This paper addresses the personification of death (a being in human or animal form) as a public representation. The public representation of death is traced among respondents from the Slovak and German language group who are residents of the town of Medzev. The author examines the nature of the individual and group representations of death held by respondents in the selected samples. She poses the research question whether there exists a cultural or long-term shared representation of death in the selected language groups, or overall in this ethnically and linguistically heterogeneous locality. Finally, she asks whether the postulated divergent representation of death between Slovaks and Germans (more precisely, the local group known as Mantaks) in Medzev functions as a differentiating cultural code, on the basis of which symbolic boundaries are formed between groups.

Keywords

EN

FIGURE OF DEATH; REPRESENTATION; MANTAKS; SLOVAKS; MEDZEV; SLOVAKIA; GERMAN LANGUAGE; SLOVAK LANGUAGE

• Publisher: Institute of Ethnology, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovenský národopis (Slovak Ethnology)
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 61
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 125 – 141

Contributors

author

Gabriela Kiliánová

• Ústav etnológie SAV, Klemensova 19, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovak Republic