Tradycje konceptualizacji śmierci w etnograficznej komunikacji respondenckiej z powiatu augustowskiego
Traditions of conceptualization of death in ethnographic respondent communication from the Augustów county

Summary/Abstract: The subject of this research are folk cultural ideas in the field of death anthropology. They were observed in ethnographic respondent communication of Augustów county, in North-East Poland. The analysis is based on the methodological paradigm of the sciences of social communication and linguistic anthropology. In the research process of communicated anthropotanatological content, the method of anthropological hermeneutics of the text was applied. The results confirmed the flollowing hypotheses of ethnologists and language anthropologists: a) folklore is characterized by a strong anthropotanatological anxiety, b) language forms reflect the worldview of the communicative community, c) folk death anthropology is proof of the universality of mythological thinking, d) mythologization is a form of neutralization of fear of death in respondent communication, e) folk anthropotanatology is characterized by specific cultural and linguistic rules, f) cultural sources of anthropotanatology of the area of Augustów have an Indo-European origin.

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