The Graveyard and the Table

Justyna Straczuk

ISBN 10: 3631854528 / ISBN 13: 9783631854525

Edité par Peter Lang, Peter Lang Okt 2021, 2021

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Neuware -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. 252 pp. Englisch.

N° de réf. du vendeur 9783631854525

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Graveyard and the Table
• Éditeur: Peter Lang, Peter Lang Okt 2021
• Date de parution: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 3631854528
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9783631854525
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 216 L x 153 H x 19 P (en millimètres) 216 millimètres de largeur par 153 millimètres de hauteur par 19 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 443 grammes

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Synopsis

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.

À propos de l?auteur

Justyna Straczuk is a professor of sociology at the Polish Academy of Sciences and the author and co-author of four books and several articles on borderland issues, sociology of food and anthropology of emotions. She has conducted ethnographic research in Belarus, Lithuania and Poland for over twenty-five years.