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The Graveyard and the Table: The Catholic-Orthodox Borderland in Poland and Belarus

The Graveyard and the Table: The Catholic-Orthodox Borderland in Poland and Belarus

Straczuk, Justyna
Fazan, Jaroslaw

Hardcover

Series: Polish Studies - Transdisciplinary Perspectives, Book 38

AnthropologyEastern European HistorySpainish & Portuguese History

ISBN10: 3631854528
ISBN13: 9783631854525
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
Published: Oct 12 2021
Pages: 252
Weight: 1.07
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

The book is based on long-term ethnographic research in the Polish-Belarusian borderland. It examines the dynamics of symbolic boundaries between the Catholic and Orthodox believers in their everyday lives. By analyzing the space of local cemeteries, rituals, and attitudes related to death, eating practices, and food sharing, the author points to the changing sense of ethnic identity and the feeling of familiarity and otherness. Confessionally mixed neighborhoods and families enable different forms of religious bivalency and become a crucial factor in bridging and crossing ethnic boundaries. Socio-cultural norms and social relations shape the ethnic identity of the borderland's residents more than the institutional frames of both churches.

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