The graveyard and the table : the Catholic-Orthodox borderland in Poland and Belarus / / Justyna Straczuk

• Autore: Straczuk Justyna
• Pubblicazione: Berlin : , : Peter Lang Publishing, , [2021]; ©2021
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (232 pages, 17 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 393
• Soggetto topico: Funeral rites and ceremonies
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: multicultural borderland -- cultural and religious diversity -- ethnic identity -- Poland -- Belarus -- Orthodox and Catholic religiousness -- peasant culture -- funeral rituals -- dead remembering -- peasant cemeteries -- food practices and sharing -- religiously mixed families and neighborhood -- village communities.
• Sommario/riassunto: The book is based on long-term ethnographic research in the Polish-Belarusian borderland. It examines the dynamics of symbolic boundaries between the Catholic and Orthodox believers in their everyday lives. By analyzing the space of local cemeteries, rituals, and attitudes related to death, eating practices, and food sharing, the author points to the changing sense of ethnic identity and the feeling of familiarity and otherness. Confessionally mixed neighborhoods and families enable different forms of religious bivalency and become a crucial factor in bridging and crossing ethnic boundaries. Socio-cultural norms and social relations shape the ethnic identity of the borderland's residents more than the institutional frames of both churches.
• Titolo autorizzato: The graveyard and the table
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910648570503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Polish studies, transdisciplinary perspectives ; ; Volume 38.