The graveyard and the table the Catholic-Orthodox borderland in Poland and Belarus

The book is based on long-term ethnographic research in the Polish-Belarusian borderland. It examines the dynamics of symbolic boundaries between the Catholic and Orthodox believers in their everyday lives. By analyzing the space of local cemeteries, rituals, and attitudes related to death, eating p...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Straczuk, Justyna, author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berlin : Peter Lang Publishing [2021]
Edition:1st ed
Series:Polish studies, transdisciplinary perspectives ; Volume 38.
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009740909306719
Table of Contents:
  • multicultural borderland
  • cultural and religious diversity
  • ethnic identity
  • Poland
  • Belarus
  • Orthodox and Catholic religiousness
  • peasant culture
  • funeral rituals
  • dead remembering
  • peasant cemeteries
  • food practices and sharing
  • religiously mixed families and neighborhood
  • village communities.