Etnologiczne uwagi na temat nietypowych form obrzędowości pogrzebowej ujawnianych w badaniach archeologicznych
Ethnological remarks on the subject of untypical forms of burial practice uncovered during archaeological research

Summary/Abstract: The basis of the interpretation of the significance of burial practices is how many times they are repeated. There exist many archaeological features, however, that demonstrate examples running contrary to the scenario of the ritual. In the article the anthropological conceptions of C. Lévi-Strauss, V. Turner and R. Girard concerning the schemes of rituals are cited. In the theory of rites de passages there exists a liminal time, a period during which the participant in the right is deprived of his codified structure beyond society. This is accompanied by the elimination of social markers. An example of this was considering someone to be a wolf was sign of social exclusion in Indo-European tradition. It had an influence on the way in which the dead person was treated, being deprived of the right to a complete and standard burial ceremony. The author analyses examples of such symbolic disqualification of the dead. The methodology of anthropological structuralism is used to interpret such ritual anomalies.

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