Naslov
The Role of Animals in Notions about Death and the Afterlife in Croatian Ethnographic Material

Autori
Pasarić, Maja

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
"Kam bi s to folkloro?" Međunarodni interdisciplinarni simpozij. "What to Do with Folklore? International interdisciplinary symposium. Zbornik povzetkov in program. Collected Abstracts and Programme in honorem dr. Zmaga Kumer / Kunej, Rebeka - Ljubljana : ZRC SAZU Glasbenonarodnopisni inštitut, 2009, 59-59

Skup
"Kam bi s to folkloro?"Međunarodni interdisciplinarni simpozij. "What to do with Folklore?" International interdisciplinary symposium

Mjesto i datum
Ljubljana, Slovenija, 24.09.2009. - 29.09.2009

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Nije recenziran

Ključne riječi
animals; death; folk beliefs

Sažetak
The paper is devoted to beliefs about animals found in Croatian ethnographic material, with particular emphasis on the role of animals in concepts connected with death and the afterlife: the behaviour of certain animals (for example, the raven, the cuckoo, and the hen in cases when it sings) were indispensable in foretelling death ; the practice of the constant keeping vigil over the body of the deceased so as prevent a so-called 'unclean animal' from crossing over or under it ; the practice is some places that a cock be slaughtered (as a posthumous animal sacrifice) as the corpse was being carried out of the house ; and, belief in the zoometamorphosis of the human soul, and the like. Analysis of the ethnographic material will commence with articles published in the Journal of the Traditional Life and Customs of the Southern Slavs (Zbornik za narodni život i običaje Južnih Slavena). In analysis of the animalistic notions from the material in question, particular attention will be directed to beliefs about animals with emphasis on the role of animals in conceptions that concern death (cf. Grbić 1998, 2007, Čulinović-Konstantinović 1998).

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Etnologija i antropologija

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