Rusalki : Anthropology of time, death, and sexuality in Slavic folklore
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="http://sms.zrc-sazu.si/pdf/20/SMS_20_04_Dynda.pdf" target="_blank" >http://sms.zrc-sazu.si/pdf/20/SMS_20_04_Dynda.pdf</a>
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Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Rusalki : Anthropology of time, death, and sexuality in Slavic folklore
Original language description
The Eastern Slavic rusalki are feminine mythological beings associated commonly with water, death, and sexuality. They were already thoroughly ethnographically described, classified and compared. This paper presents a re-evaluation of D. K. Zelenin's classic interpretation of these beings as the souls of women deceased by untimely or unjust death. By means of analysis of their function and embedding in the whole social-cultural environment it is shown in this paper how rusalki worked in the context of the symbolic system of the East Slavic folklore. One of the main goals is to understand how intricately were rusalki and stories about them connected with the Orthodox liturgical year, specifically with the week following the Pentecost. The paper concludes that these feminine revenants were a symbolic representation of an eternal unripen-ness, which needed to be annually revived temporarily in order to help the symbolic system to cross the liminal phase of the agricultural and liturgical year cycle.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60304 - Religious studies
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA17-09663S" target="_blank" >GA17-09663S: Myth as a Constitutive Exception: Dynamics of Transgressive Reflexivity</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2017
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Studia Mythologica Slavica
ISSN
1408-6271
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
2017
Issue of the periodical within the volume
20
Country of publishing house
SI - SLOVENIA
Number of pages
27
Pages from-to
83-109
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85029792182