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E-book Mediating the Otherworld in Polish Folklore : A Cognitive Linguistic Perspective

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The present study focuses on folk stereotypes of interconnections between the phys-ical and the metaphysical worlds in Polish language and culture. It takes as its point of departure relations between three concepts: lud (the folk), kultura ludowa (folk culture) and religijno?? ludowa (folk religiosity/folk religious practices). The terms have long stirred heated debate and controversy among scholars in a number of fields, including ethnology, anthropology, cultural sociology, folklore and religious studies. The discussion concerns not only the meaning of the concept “folk cul-ture” and the scope of the terms “folk” and “folk religiosity” but, importantly, also their valuation. All three are closely interrelated and have an established position in Polish and European scholarship.The concept lud (the folk) was in use in Poland already in the eighteenth cen-tu r y,1 mainly with reference to peasants and the rural population as opposed to privileged groups – nobility, aristocracy and burghers; from the early nineteenth century it also came to include the urban proletariat. Today, its relevance is often put into question owing to the processes of democratisation of society, which have eliminated estate distinctions.The term kultura ludowa (folk culture), in turn, appeared in the nineteenth cen-tury with reference to peasant culture, which had emerged as part of national culture already in the feudal period and flourished particularly in the nineteenth century, when it attracted the interest of such eminent ethnographers as Oskar Kolberg and Kazimierz Moszy?ski.3 Although, like many of their followers, both Kolberg and Moszy?ski treated folk culture as an essentially peasant phenomenon, its nature is more complex and far from uniform. Native (ethnic) sources were not the only basis for the development of folk culture. As it evolved, it assimilated elements of the culture of higher social strata, which it adapted to rural reality; it also came to include features developed as a result of inter-ethnic contact [SE: 196]. The turn of the twentieth century, usually considered the heyday of Polish folk culture, also marked the beginning of its progressive decline [Burszta 1998: 168; SE: 197]. The causes of this process may be found both in the transformation of traditional rural communities after the Second World War and a general change of economic and political patterns, both in Poland and other European countries.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

401.43 MAS m

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Switzerland : Peter Lang International Academic Publishers., 2020

Deskripsi Fisik

412 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9783631796849

Klasifikasi

401.43

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text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

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Subjek

Semantics

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