Проблемът за смъртта в традиционната и съвременната българска култура
The Problem of Death in Traditional and Contemporary Bulgarian Culture

Author(s): Maria Dimitrova
Subject(s): Anthropology, Social Sciences, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
Published by: Пловдивски университет »Паисий Хилендарски«
Keywords: death; rites of passage; funeral ideology
Summary/Abstract: A person’s death disorganizes the social group, shakes each community member individually, and prompts the thought of their own future and destiny. The funeral ideology, which includes both certain concepts concerning the end of human life and funeral ritual, interprets death as a necessity for the community itself.How the beliefs and perceptions of the end of human life have been preserved (and respectively changed), to what extent the funeral ritual has been preserved, what part of the tradition is known and when the community resorts to it to solve problems - these are some of the issues that ask for our attention in the text.

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