„Да се памти, че е женска работа“: Социокултурни параметри на менструацията в българската традиционна култура и фолклора
“It Should Be Recalled It’s a Women’s Job”: Sociocultural Parameters of Menstruation in Bulgarian Traditional Culture and Folklore
Author(s): Mila BankovaSubject(s): History, Anthropology, Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Gender Studies, Literary Texts, Cultural history, Psychology, Semiotics / Semiology, Customs / Folklore, Anthology, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Sociology, Ethnohistory, History of ideas, Social history, Gender history, Lexis, Semantics, Sociolinguistics, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure , Social psychology and group interaction, Rural and urban sociology, Sociobiology, Sociology of Culture, Social Norms / Social Control, Identity of Collectives, Phraseology
Published by: Институт за етнология и фолклористика с Етнографски музей при БАН
Keywords: menstruation; menarche; female blood
Summary/Abstract: This article aims to outline the main sociocultural aspects of menstruation in Bulgarian traditional culture and folklore. Menarche rituals and etiological legends about the womb’s creation and the menstruation are explored and analyzed in order to define folklore motifs and beliefs. The woman and her cyclicity is related to fertility in the human world. Both in legends and in menarche rituals, the womb and the menstruation are essential for arranging and preserving the dimension between order and chaos, for building a connection between heaven and earth. The magical power of woman's blood and body is included in the cultural system of the human world, but it also aims to achieve prosperity on other levels. This sacred and mysterious physiological process gives woman a special place, makes her wiser and more responsible for the common good.
Journal: Български фолклор
- Issue Year: XLVIII/2022
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 332-355
- Page Count: 24
- Language: Bulgarian
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