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Сватбеният текст (Наблюдения върху поетиката и символиката на източнославянските сватбени песни и обредни формули)
Wedding Text (View of Poetics and Symbolics of East Slavic Traditional Wedding Songs and Ritual Formulas)

Author(s): Iliana Chekova
Subject(s): Anthropology, Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Customs / Folklore, Studies of Literature, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure
Published by: Асоциация за антропология, етнология и фолклористика ОНГЬЛ

Summary/Abstract: The article refers to the poetics of East Slavic wedding songs defined as songs lamentations, songs praise, but also to the ritual formulas in matchmaking. Presented is their sustainable verbal repertoire and symbol code associated with these semantic circles: culinary symbolism (marriage consumption), agricultural and cattle-breeding symbolism (marriage plowing, etc.), hunting symbolism (marriage hunting), trade marks (marriage purchase), warrior symbolism (marriage capture and captivity), royal symbolism and titulatura (marriage enthronement) and others.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 14
  • Page Range: 203-230
  • Page Count: 28
  • Language: Bulgarian