LJUDI I ŽIVOTINJE: O ANALOGIJAMA I SUPROTNOSTIMA U JUŽNOSLOVENSKOJ USMENOJ LIRICI
HUMANS AND ANIMALS: ON ANALOGIES AND CONTRASTS IN SOUTH SLAVIC ORAL LYRIC POETRY

Summary/Abstract: South Slavic oral lyric songs model the relations between people and animals in analogies and contrasts, showing similarities and differences between them. People and animals are seen as different when their worlds, nature and culture, wild and tame are confronted. On the other hand, when the heroes and heroines of the songs are in positions of the Other, alien, the similarities between them and animals are emphasized. The oral lyric songs sing about complex relations between people and animals – they revile mythic matrixes (motif of golden hair maiden, deer, and fish as triple catch), patterns of hospitality and wedding rituals, and utopian fragments of desire for freedom. The relations between people and animals revile a multi-layered worldview and the ways of experiencing that world and beings in it – in the moments of encounters and crisis.

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