OBICEIURILE TRADIȚIONALE DE ÎNMORMÂNTARE ÎN COMUNITĂȚILE POLONEZE DIN BUCOVINA
Traditional Burial Customs in the Polish Communities in Bukovina

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to the issues of the death and cultural customs associated with the human corps practiced in the Polish communities in Bucovina. In the first part of the text the author presents relationships between death, culture and social life. There are aimed the social functions of funeral, as well as durability and changes in terms of attitudes toward human death and human corps, that are happened in the modern and postmodern societies. In the main part of the article, the author follows the traditional “lastway” of human being – from his/her dying, through caring for the corps and burial, to the habits expressing individual or collective memory about a died person. The article is based on the empirical data collected during field research 2016-2018 among Polish people who are living in two parts of the historical region of Bucovina: both in Romania (Suceava County) and in Ukraine (Chernivtsi Oblast).

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