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| Titel: |
Remembering Ancestors: Commemorative Rituals and the Foundation of Historicity |
| Auteur: |
Geană, Gheorghiţă |
| Verschenen in: |
History and anthropology |
| Paginering: | Jaargang 16 (2005) nr. 3 pagina's 349-361 |
| Jaar: |
2005-09 |
| Inhoud: |
One of the most elaborated responses to the human perception of being-in-time (as the essence of historicity) has been the cult of the ancestors. Consequently, the ancestor cult may be considered foundational for historicity. This is the core idea of this article. It is illustrated with Romanian ethnographic data and elaborated with cross-cultural examples. A few objects used in commemorative rituals—coliva (a special dish), trees and pots—are interpreted according to their symbolic force of enabling people to live temporality not only fragmentarily (past + present + future), but as a transcendental unity of the temporal continuum. Finally, the functions of history are specified—namely, identity defining, the critical function, and especially (as revealed by the ancestor cult) the function of memorialization. |
| Uitgever: |
Routledge |
| Bronbestand: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
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