Popis

Obsah

Editorial
Irina Sedakova
Opening Address: The Incorporation of Crisis Rituals and Historical Events in the Annual Cycle
Emily Lyle

1. THE RITUAL YEAR AND HISTORY
The Ritual-Year Cycle in pre-1960 Malta
George Mifsud-Chircop
The Social Background of the Maskers’ Plays in Lithuania: The Road to Modernity
Arūnas Vaicekauskas
The Impact of Socio-political Developments on Ritual Life
Tatiana Minniyakhmetova
The Influence of Social and Ecological Crises on Maintaining Calendar Rituals among the Eastern Slavs
Ekaterina Dorokhova
Interaction between a Folk Calendar System and the System of Soviet Holidays
Olga Pashina
Inventing the Ritual Year in Modem Russia
Irina Sedakova
The Annual Equestrian Games of the Gardians of the Camargue: Invented Traditions, Identity and Ritual Drama
David Stanley
The Claim for History in Contemporary Calendar Festivals: Legendary, Historical and Present Times
Laurent Sébastien Fournier
The Neo-Pagan Ritual Year and Reinterpretations of History
Jenny Butler
The Swedish Christmas Goat: To Bum or Preserve a Symbol
Johanna Ståhlberg

2. TRANSITION AND INITIATION
Jane Ellen Harrison and Ritual
Kamila Velkoborská
Water Rituals in the Transition to Marriage of Girls in Modem and Ancient Greece
Evy Johanne Håland
The Luck Contest in the Ritual Year
Emily Lyle
Epiphany and Baptism as Threshold States: Liminal Elements in Tales of Perchta and her Child Souls
Molly Carter
The Schleicherlaufen in Telfs - for men only?
Helena Ruotsala
Blackening and Foot-Washing: A Look at Scottish Wedding Pranks
Nancy C. McEntire
Commemoration of the Dead as a Part of the Udmurt Ritual Year
Aado Lintrop
Grim Threshold of Eternity: Death and Dying among the Slovene Minority in Rural Carinthia in Austria
Mojca Ramšak
Comforter-Trees or Gifts for Santa Claus: Toddlers’ Rites of Passage
Tora Wall

3. THE RITUAL YEAR AND FOLK RELIGION
Saint George’s Day in Hungary and Europe
Kincső Verebélyi
Saint Savva in the Serbian Ritual Year
Anna Plotnikova
Rituals with Masks in the Republic of Macedonia with Especial Focus on the Twelve Days
Mirjana P. Mirchevska
How Christmas Cribs Came to Sweden.
Examples of the Mediation of Tradition from Germany
Nils-Arvid Bringéus
Naked Christmas: Art, Kitsch and Advertising in Sweden
Marlene Hugoson
Green Christmas - Black Midsummer. To Tell the Weather after the Ritual Year
Lina Midholm

4. THE CZECH AND SLOVAK RITUAL YEAR
The Traditional Ritual Year of the Czechs and Slovaks
Marina Valentsova
Ways of Presenting Calendar Customs in the Museum of the Slovak Village
Katarína Molnárová
The Commemoration of National Saints as a Part of the Ritual Year in the Czech Republic and Slovakia
Jan Rychlík

THE AUTHORS