Trwałość i innowacyjność obrzędu. Na przykładzie etapów dawnego i współczesnego wesela z terenów południowego Podlasia
The Constancy and Innovativeness of the Ritual upon the Example of Stages in the Modern and Traditional Wedding in Southern Podlasie

Summary/Abstract: By using the theory of ritual codes devised by Nikita I. Tolstoy the author showed the durability and variability of elements of the traditional and contemporary wedding in eastern Poland. Her reflections are based on an analysis of printed sources from the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty first century as well as archival material and auteur field research. By following example of N.I. Tolstoy she distinguished the following codes: verbal, actional, subjective, personal, temporal, location-related and musical. In doing so B. Maksymiuk-Pacek found that they cooperate and supplement each other within the wedding ritual, thus creating a joint syncretic code making it possible to depict the ritual as a cohesive entity. The author is the opinion that the most stable and significant code in the wedding rituals is the actional code, due to which we are capable of recreating the sequencing of the event. The article distinguishes 21 stages in the traditional and contemporary wedding, which are then discussed in that order. Analyses of successive stages of the wedding demonstrate the permanence and changeability of some of its elements comprising particular cultural codes. The summary considers the stability and transformations, which occurred within the codes listed in the introduction.

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