Mocarstwo słabych – o wartości starców w kulturze ludowej
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Date
2013
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Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM
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The Power of the Weak: on Worthiness of Elders in Folk Culture
Abstract
The folk culture from the turn of the 20
th
century was founded on the mythical paradigm. Its
specific feature was an opposition between the selfand the other. It had ambivalent influence
on those people and places which, due to actual or perceptual reasons, were placed on the
margin of the mainstream of life. This includes, among others, the elders. On the one hand,
they were treated by the community with reluctance, or even aggression, because of their
decrepitude. On the other hand, they were respectedas guards of traditions, and intermediaries with the supernatural, who possessed a portion of its potential.
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borders, elders, folk culture, myth, old age, others, sacrum, supernatural
Citation
Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne, 2013, nr 5, s. 131–141
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798-83-232-2636-9