Predstava o postave smrti - štúdium kultúrneho javu v slovenskej a nemeckej jazykovej skupine na Slovensku

Year, pages: 2013, 125 - 141

This paper addresses the personification of death (a being in human or animal form) as a public representation. The public representation of death is traced among respondents from Slovak and German language groups who are residents of the town of Medzev. The author examines the nature of the individual and group representations of death held by respondents in the selected samples. She poses the research question whether there exists a cultural or long-term shared representation of death in the selected language groups, or overall in this ethnically and lingustically heterogeneous locality. Finally, she asks whether the postulated representation of death between Slovaks and Germans (more precisely, the local group known as Mantaks) in Medzev functions as a differentiating cultural code, on the basis of which symbolic boundaries are formed between groups.

Kiliánová, G. 2013. Predstava o postave smrti - štúdium kultúrneho javu v slovenskej a nemeckej jazykovej skupine na Slovensku. In Slovenský národopis / Slovak Ethnology, vol. 61, no.2, pp. 125-141. 1339-9357.

Kiliánová, G. (2013). Predstava o postave smrti - štúdium kultúrneho javu v slovenskej a nemeckej jazykovej skupine na Slovensku. Slovenský národopis / Slovak Ethnology, 61(2), 125-141. 1339-9357.