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• Authors: Kotrly T.

Title variants

EN

TO THE CHANGES OF THE POSITION OF GRAVEDIGGER

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

We have been witnesses of the revival of various moral, cultural and religious differences among people based on a concrete description of activities of a Czech gravedigger. In the recently launched standardization of particular qualifications of a gravedigger and in the manner of verification of his/her professional competence, the author, who is personally involved in this process, looks for the assumptions for establishing a cemetery open for all nationalities where religion and culture could co-exist. The text introduces both the historical (diachronic) interpretation of the position of a gravedigger as well as its socio-cultural (synchronic) delimitation. The author attempts to incorporate all objectively existing elements into the requirements laid upon professional competences of a gravedigger. Especially globalization, migration and recovery of local communities on the religious and ethnic basis belong among them.

Keywords

EN

CZECH LANDS; EXHUMATION; GRAVE; GRAVEDIGGER; PUBLIC BURIAL PLOT; STANDARDIZATION

Discipline

• ETHNOLOGY: ETHNOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Český lid: etnologický časopis (Český lid: Ethnological journal)
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 95
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 273-292
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Kotrly T.

• T. Kotrly, Katolicka teologicka fakulta UK v Praze, Katedra pastoralnich oboru a pravnich ved, Thakurova 3, 160 00 Praha 6, Czech Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

08CZAAAA05179823