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The orthodox liturgical year and its theological structure
2022
The concept of ‘liturgical year’ indicates a reference to the meaning of the measuring units of civil time, and especially to the cosmic entities that determine the general rhythm of time – the sun and the moon. Interestingly, the liturgical time depends both on the structure of civil time, and, on the two discrete systems of the solar and lunar cycles, which have always been underpinnings of time measuring. The special importance and influence that the cosmical rhythms exert on the entire human life are also felt in the structure and theology of the liturgical time, where it signals the attempt to merge and reconcile the cosmical solar and lunar cycles within the liturgical year. This lead…
Biesiada w Soplicowie jako część boskiego ładu istnienia
2019
Bohaterowie Pana Tadeusza bardzo często jedzą na ogromnym stole. Przygotowanie święta, robienie wyszukanych potraw i ich konsumpcja towarzyszą każdemu ważnemu wydarzeniu życiowemu w Soplicowie, a sam proces jedzenia staje się istotnym wydarzeniem. Uczta staropolska otwiera i zamyka fabułę poematu. Epicki poemat Mickiewicza – kompendium szlacheckiego zwyczaju – nie może pominąć nawyków związanych z jedzeniem. Postacie utworu jedzą dobrze, dużo i szybko, a także piją sporo wódki, ponczu oraz win Tokaj i Malaga. Istnieje tu wiele opowieści o kulinarnych upodobaniach bohaterów, których najbardziej znaczącym przykładem pozostaje „uczta zajazdowa” opisana w Księdze IX (w. 250-253), w której rosyj…
Dożynki w Polsce. Od obrzędu do widowiska
2017
Today the traditional beliefs, customs and rites relating to the harvest time are very limited as their contemporary functions and dimension have changed. The authoress is interested in the transformation process of a harvest festival that is typical of the old rural communities. The harvest festival still crowns the labours of farming and is a form of solemn thanksgiving for harvested crops but today's celebration is not accompanied with any magical practices that would bring a good harvest next year. Ritual songs are becoming obsolete and the harvesting women, if any, no longer need any orations addressed to a landlord. The customs of baking bread and making crown-shaped wreaths have surv…
Sur les traces du mouton en Gaule
2005
Concerning the evidence for sheep in Gaul.- In northern Gaul, bones of sheep and goat are found in most Iron Age sites, farms, villages, graves and shrines. It is difficult to establish a good distinction between the bones of these two species, but sheep are more numerous than goat. This short paper deals with the use of these animals in domestic and ritual practices over a long period, from the Late Bronze Age to the beginning of Roman period. The fact that these animals are represented by bones encourages the study of meat consumption. Mutton is consumed in domestic contexts, but it is also offered during banquets in shrines, public areas in villages or other places, and plays a role duri…
The Ka’ulayawaa festivals among the Wayùu. Exploring continuities and variations in forms, meanings and contexts through ethnographic sources
2022
In this paper I review and compare the main sources of information about the ka’ulayawaa festivals among the Wayùu, an Amerindian people inhabiting in the semiarid Guajira peninsula (Northern Colombia and Venezuela). For their peculiar mix of songs, dances, imitative plays and competitive games, inserted into a same festive framework, these festivals are particularly interesting to be studied as expressive metacommentaries (in the sense of Turner) of Wayùu social structures, cultural values and worldview. Nevertheless, they have not so far been the subject of a specific anthropological analysis, also because they ceased to be celebrated around the middle of the twentieth century, that is, b…