Transgresja wobec tragedii, śmiech przeciwko śmierci

• Authors: Jerzy S. Wasilewski

Title variants

EN

TRANSGRESSION AND DEATH, LAUGHTER VERSUS DEATH

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The author is working on a text about comical transgressions in culture, entitled Niepoważność; the published article is a fragment. One of the mourners attending a funeral of an English soldier is the deceased’s best friend, dressed in a bright yellow summer frock and pink knee socks. This costume is connected with a promise made by the two men on the battlefield: of one of them were to perish then the other would dress in this way for the funeral. The ethnologist places the event within a wider cultural context, not satisfied with a psychological explananation. It is precisely the anthropologist who can decipher in assorted ways the symbolic content of the funeral transgression: in an individual case he should perceive despair and rebellion, while a collective act should be interpreted as an expression of the state of death, its acceptance and overcoming

Keywords

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Death; Laughter

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Sztuki PAN
• Journal: Konteksty - Polska Sztuka Ludowa
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 64
• Issue: 4(291)
• Pages: 184-190

Contributors

author

Jerzy S. Wasilewski