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FIELD TRIPS AS RITES OF PASSAGE

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Trabka A.

Kultura i Społeczeństwo

2007

vol. 51

issue 4

81-99

The article is an attempt to answer the question whether field trips can be considered to be rituals of passage. For this purpose the authoress uses a qualitative analysis of the following journals and memoirs: 'A Journal in the Strictest Meaning of the Word' by Bronislaw Malinowski, 'L'Afrique fantôme' by Michel Leiris, 'Tristes tropiques' by Claude Lévi-Strauss, 'Return to laughter' by Elenore Smith-Bowen and 'Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco' by Paul Rabinow. The starting point for the deliberations is the classic rites of passage theory proposed by Arnold van Gennep and its interpretation in the spirit of symbolic anthropology as conducted by Victor Turner. We then encounter a short description of the nature of the intensive field studies and a brief review of the context in which the aforementioned journals and memoirs were written. The main part of the article seeks an answer to the question of whether the experiences of the researchers may show that the research in itself is a kind of initiation for them.

MAGIC ACTIVITIES, PREDICTIONS AND PROGNOSTICS DURING THE EARLY STAGES OF A FOLK WEDDING (BASED ON THE MATERIALS OF THE POLISH ETHNOGRAPHIC ATLAS) (Zachowania magiczne, wrozby i prognostyki podczas wstepnych etapow wesela wiejskiego...)

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Drozdz A.

Lud

2008

vol. 92

201-214

The article deals with magical activities observed in preparations for a folk wedding in Poland. The peak of magical acts was connected with the belief that a young couple was in a critical moment - the interim, which was dangerous for them because of its liminality. On the other hand, if proper patterns of behaviour were followed, it guaranteed happiness of the bride and the groom. According to the common belief, it was possible to predict the future of the couple. That was the source of a great variety of fortune telling and predictions. The article presents selected magical acts accompanying the following stages of the wedding: inviting for a celebration, baking the 'korowaj' cake, the hen evening and predictions before the marriage ceremony. It emphasises many activities of protective and prognostic nature, during invitation for a wedding and baking the wedding cake. The examples presented in the article come from fieldwork conducted by research workers of the Polish Ethnographic Atlas in the second half of the 20th century (mainly in the 1970s and 1980s) in selected villages in the area of Poland.

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FIELD TRIPS AS RITES OF PASSAGE

MAGIC ACTIVITIES, PREDICTIONS AND PROGNOSTICS DURING THE EARLY STAGES OF A FOLK WEDDING (BASED ON THE MATERIALS OF THE POLISH ETHNOGRAPHIC ATLAS) (Zachowania magiczne, wrozby i prognostyki podczas wstepnych etapow wesela wiejskiego...)