RITUÁL SMRTI AKO PREJAV TRANSFORMÁCIE POSTSOCIALISTICKEJ MODERNEJ SPOLOČNOSTI (PRÍPADOVÁ ŠTÚDIA)

• Authors: Kiliánová Gabriela

Title variants

EN

Mortuary rituals as an expression of transformation of the post-socialist society (A case study)

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

The article deals with cultural changes provoked by the deep post-socialist transformation processes in Slovakia since 1989. It focuses on the dynamics of the transformation at a local level, providing insights into social, economic, political and other relationships of the local inhabitants. The paper presents a case study - current changes of mortuary ritual in one village and pays special attention to the local actors of transformation. It is generally argued that the observed changes are on the one hand the results of both macro-social transformation in Slovakia and of its impact at the micro-social level. On the other hand, the changes are modified by previous development and the specific local conditions. Therefore, the modifications of mortuary ritual are also studied within the wider context of modernization processes in the second half of the 20th century, in particular within the framework of the second modernization wave launched during the socialist regime in former Czechoslovakia.

Keywords

EN

MODERNISATION; MORTUARY RITUAL; POST-SOCIALIST TRANSFORMATION; SLOVAKIA

Discipline

• ETHNOLOGY: ETHNOLOGY

• 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: 2007
• Volume: 14
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 31-49
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Kiliánová Gabriela

• G. Kilianova, Ustav etnologie SAV, Klemensova 19, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

07SKAAAA03106412