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The article is a general reflection on the issue of cognitive values of Silesian folk songs. The song repertoire was looked at in the article from several perspectives, taking into consideration its connections with a folk tradition. Much onus fell on the lexical layer characterizing the reality and diversity of song content and function. The basic scope of artistic means within poetics and song melody was discussed. Important comments concerned the means of transmission, rules of functioning and folklore communication.The suggestions encouraging the audience to read the song parts proved the fact that Silesian folk songs are the book of knowledge on traditional, family, social and artistic culture, and a fundamental source of getting to know the past, as well as consolidating the feeling of one’s own identity.
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Oral literature for Mak Dizdar represented, among other things, inexhaustible source of motifs and expressions. In distinction from the oral love lyric poetry, which is more present in Dizdar’s poetic opus, the oral prose - first of all tradition and a fairy tale – is recognized in fewer examples. The objective of this paper is to show the ways of a poetic shaping of topic patterns of a fairy tale in the poem Labud djevojka by Mak Dizdar.
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The oral-prose forms as parts of narrattive structure in Zuko Džumhur’s Itenerary have been analysed. The emphasis of this analisis is to separate the oral tradition and revealing its function in additional thematisation of itenerary narration.
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This paper discusses application of structuralist methodology to the research of folk region in Serbia. I discussed possible anticipations and the beginning of application of structural methodology; period of high popularity of rites of passage theories in our ethnology/anthropology, as well as most developed forms of analysis inspired by structuralism. On the example of two specifically chosen 'case studies' I show the ways in which structuralism in our science helped us to see problems from a completely new angle and foste-red a creation of new and original conclusions. In the paper, I claim that the beginning of applications of the ideas and methods developed in structuralism, made a breaking point with the previous research of folk religion, and at its highest points, in some ways, made a basis for the understanding of folk religion as a holistic system.
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Diverse range of subjects that Richard Dorson handled, or had vehemently dealt with or confronted, addressing many disciplinary quarrels, even today presents a benchmark to numerous scientists who, following his theoretic and methodological lead, approach diverse element of the folklore creativity. In his final years, Dorson and his students, made pioneering leaps in successfully obtaining and interpreting folk traditions of the industrialized Midwest. Dorsons presentation of the novel research area within folklore studies, in his seminal publication Land of the Mill Rats, bequests the question ‘Is there folk in the city’, is there a place for folklorists in modern industrial society’, and as we shall demonstrate in this essay, such a question for him and his followers had implications for scientific goals of defining expressions as behavior, i.e. the understanding of human existence. This creation of a historic and contemporary fieldwork amalgam brings Dorson to the epicenter of urban-industrial America, and its new folklore.
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Discursive constructions of gender and femininity in science fiction point to the close ties of science fiction’s "secondary worlds" to the living practices and experiences considering technology and cultural articulation of the difference. Early science fiction novels featured female characters somewhere in the back of the stage, but new wave in science fiction tended to disbalance stereotypes concerning gender, thus making path for cyberpunk and "hard" science fiction from the mid-1980s and on to disperse once unified notion of gender by thematizing effects on technology on human subject. Figure of human-machine hybrid today isusual part of both science fiction and theoretical imaginary, where key contribution stems from the work of feminist theorist Donna Haraway and her view of cyborg as symptom-metaphor of female emancipation through pact with technology. But who owns cyborg’s pleasure? Answer to this question could be found in two science fiction series which proved to be influential in changing genre’s paradigm – in William Gibson’s cyberpunk trilogy "Sprawl", and in Dan Simmons’ tetralogy "Songs of Hyperion" – where key for dealing with fears (and hopes) regarding human relation to technology lies in female characters.
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Prije bilo kakvog govorenja o zadanoj nam temi, morale bi se preciznije definirati dvije sastojnice naslovne sintagme. Dakle, što je to bosansko srednjovjekovlje, a što narodna predaja. Bosansko srednjovjekovlje mogli bismo, strogo gledajući na našu temu, vremenski locirati od vladavine Kulina bana (1180.-1204.) do pada bosanskog kraljevstva pod Osmanlije (1463.), za razliku od europskoga srednjevjekovlja, koje traje tisuću godina, a koje je povijesno razvedenije i historiografski opisanije, dakle, dugotrajnije (traje barem dvostruko dulje!), pa tako počinje s propašću Zapadnoga rimskog carstva (476.), a okončava zauzećem Carigrada (1453.).
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Rad je nastao u koautorstvu prof. dr. Marka Dragića i Katice Lozić Radielović koja je pod mentorstvom prof. Dragića napisala i obranila diplomski rad. Rad je komponiran od deset poglavlja i petnaestak potpoglavlja u kojima se obrađuju: božićni, korizmeni, svadbeni običaji, kao i običaji pri porodu, smrti, gradnji domova; posleničkim običajima te usmeno-književnim oblicima koji su ih pratili. Svi zapisi u radu snimljeni su izvorno na terenu te kao takvi imaju višestruk značaj: etnološki, antropološki, filološki, teološki i dr. Navedeni i interpretirani primjeri zorno svjedoče bogatstvo i raznovrsnost hrvatske narodne kulture i usmene književnosti u jajačkom kraju. Svi ti običaji i primjeri usmene književnosti imaju životnu i estetsku funkciju. U tim se običajima zrcali trinaeststoljetni život Hrvata u Jajcu. Zahvaljujući bogatoj duhovnoj baštini Hrvati su kroz minula stoljeća patnji, progona i stradanja sačuvali svoj vjerski i nacionalni identitet. Stoga je prvorazredan civilizacijski čin snimati narodne običaje i usmenu književnost. To je opći trend u naprednom svijetu.
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There are two well-known pilgrimages in the state of Maharashtra, western India. One is the Pandharpur, held at fixed times, and the other is the Aṣtavināyaka (eight Gaṇeśa). The former is comparatively arduous and regimented, while the latter is more personal and pleasure oriented. Maharashtra has eight temples sacred to Gaṇeśa (collectively known as the astavinayaka), all located within a hundred-kilometre radius of the city of Pune. The aṣtavināyaka is a popular pilgrimage comprising a visit to all eight of these Gaṇeśa temples. Attracting many pilgrims, both pilgrimages contribute to the regional identity of Maharashtra. This paper shows that these two Hindu pilgrimages in Maharashtra are useful examples to help better understand the role of pilgrimage in modern India.
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In my paper I would like to point out some aspects of love magic using eastern Serbian examples. I am not a historian and I mostly work with the contemporary material from my own fieldwork. The paper focuses on the traditional form of love magic in eastern Serbia and tries to put it in an anthropological context. Eastern Serbia is an ethnically heterogeneous region, settled mostly by Serbs and Walachs. The Walachs are citizens of Roman origin, who migrated there from Romania (mainly from Transylvania, Moldavia and Walachia). Both Serbs and Walachs are orthodox. This area has always been known for strong beliefs in magic and witchcraft and Walachian magic has been regarded among the Serbs as one of the strongest varieties and one by which it was possible to make a (magical) attack on somebody from a distance. Strong fear of the dead and belief in vampirism characterized this area as well.
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Bells are used in different world cultures as musical and cult-instruments for calling people and supernatural beings together, they serve in performing of religious or profane rituals and ceremonies and in many other similar functions or purposes. The traditions of using bells are very ancient features of human cultures. They have been used for religious purposes already in Assyria, Babylonia and Egypt. In ancient time they had also decorative and apotropaic functions as we can see from amulets, excavations of horse- and cattle-bells, etc.
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Within the framework of oral (folk) literature and through the lense of literary-animalistic research, exemple, or moral anecdotes, have a special place. This short literary form, whose point of departure should be analyzed through European oral literature, is a key element of the sermon. In animalistic example the subject matter consists of animals that reflect various human characteristics and also act as a means for explaining abstract ideas such as time, transience, beauty, paradise. In this paper we focus on the popular example How Sweet are the Songs of Heaven (Kako su slatke piesni nebeske), the title given by fra Matija Divković in his Sermons (Besjede).
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The process of globalization affecting all countries. It is extremely important to the preservation od humanistic and cultural traditions, cultural heritage.
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Jędrzej Burszta’s chapter is dedicated to the analysis of the political and ideological dimensions of the process of canon-forming within the field of science fiction studies. The points of reference are the recent controversies surrounding the 2015 Hugo nominations and the online campaign of the groups “Sad Puppies” and “Rapid Puppies”. In the text, Burszta discusses the connection between defining science fiction and creating a canon of “proper” science fiction texts through “selective tradition”— a perspective that ultimately leads to creation of different, subjective canons of science fiction that are often, if not always, influenced by ideological choices. The author argues that the science fiction new wave movement in the 1970s has had a long-lasting impact on the way that it is defined by most science fiction scholars. Furthermore, the essay attempts to prove that contemporary heated debates on the political nature of science fiction (especially in the context of American science fiction) should be taken into consideration by science fiction scholars as important examples of the on-going “cultural war” and the politics of representation.
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