WINE AS A SIGNIFIER OF KINSHIP IN BULGARIAN FOLKLORE EPICS
WINE AS A SIGNIFIER OF KINSHIP IN BULGARIAN FOLKLORE EPICS
Author(s): Nikolai VukovSubject(s): Customs / Folklore, Agriculture, Semiology, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: wine; kinship relationships; folklore epics; heroic feast; wine betting;
Summary/Abstract: The article analyses the specific function that wine drinking has in Bulgarian epic songs as a step in the procedure of rediscovering a kinship relationship with a lost brother or sister. On the basis of various epic situations of competition in wine drinking and wine betting, the text outlines the meaning of wine as a signifier of (re)establishing a kinship relationship, which is among the representative ones for the system of kinship relationships in Bulgarian folklore epics.
Journal: Acta Ethnographica Hungarica
- Issue Year: 58/2013
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 389-396
- Page Count: 8
- Language: English
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