Hranica v kontexte priestoru cintorína
Boundary through the Context of Cemetry Space

Summary/Abstract: In our culture complex the cemetery is understood as a place of final separation of dead person from the society of living and also the place connected with a new special kind of relationship, which arise thanks to death of some close person. This place informs its visitors not only about the religion, beliefs, value systems, aesthetic norms, but also attitudes towards to death and also to life. The aim of this study is to define and to interpret the role and the meaning of cemetery boundaries among the inhabitants of some rural areas in Slovakia (regions Nitra, Hont, Horehronie, Liptov). The essential task is to answer the question - how, if any contemporaries perceive, recognize the boundaries within the cemetery area, whether they are relevant to them, and if so, what importance people attach to them. Borders can be understood as a result of awareness of differences, different quality of space, or population groups shared some space, differentiated patterns in relation to the space - wherever these differences should be separated. Presented contribution also analyzes the borders within the cemetery itself, the sectionalization of this place in accordance to ethnic, confessional, age, social another differentiations.

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