LOKÁLNA ENDOGAMIA A JEJ VÝZNAM PRI UZATVÁRANÍ MANŽELSTIEV V TRADIČNOM ĽUDOVOM PROSTREDÍ

• Authors: Letavajová Silvia

Title variants

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Local endogamy and its importance in marriages in traditional folk environment

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

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The article focuses on endogamy marriages in traditional culture. Attention is given to particular local and spatial aspects of this phenomenon. The aim is to find out what types of group identification were in choosing a partner considered essential, how was perceived marriage with "foreign", and what forms and means was used by the local community to ensure the desired behaviour. The results point to the fact that the identification of local, spatially defined and bounded group is considered significant. The perception, however, is dependent primarily on the opportunities and the ability to move in space and cross group boundaries. In terms of historical development is seen constantly enlarging and expanding the space, which is attributed to a group referred as "our". The spatial dimension of group membership is not an end in itself, is intertwined with cultural and social diversity groups. The choice of partners from local, religiously, ethnically and socially equal groups is generally perceived as a model, conditioned by local or situational requirements. Compliance with this mode is provides by a wide range of means. His expression is also found in folk customs and is stored by intergenerational transmitting.

Keywords

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LOCAL ENDOGAMY; MIXED MARRIAGE; MIGRATION; ETHNIC GROUP; RELIGIOUS GROUP; FOLK ENVIRONMENT

• Publisher: Institute of Ethnology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovak Ethnological Society, and Slovak National Museum - Ethnological Museum (in Martin)
• Journal: Etnologické rozpravy (Ethnological Disputes)
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 22
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 114 – 128

Contributors

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Letavajová Silvia

• Katedra etnológie a mimoeurópskych štúdií, Univerzita sv. Cyrila a Metoda v Trnave, Slovak Republic