The Wedding of the Dead: Ritual, Poetics, and Popular Culture in Transylvania (Studies on the History of Society and Culture) - Hardcover

Kligman, Gail

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520060016 ISBN 13: 9780520060012

Publisher: Univ of California Pr, 1988

Synopsis

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1988.

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Though the Communist regime has transformed the rhythms of village life in the Socialist republic of Romania, the state has tolerated its traditional rituals. This work, based on 17 months of fieldwork in the village of Maramures, analyzes weddings and funerals through the oral poetry accompanying these rites of passage. Included in the work are a detailed sociological portrait of Maramures and dozens of poems, toasts, laments, and songs (in the original language with English translation) pointing to the personal as well as the sociocentric concerns of this peasant community. Winnie Lambrecht, Brown Univ., Providence
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Edition details

• Publisher: Univ of California Pr
• Publication date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520060016
• ISBN 13: 9780520060012
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1