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Four Stories of Imprisonment about the Essence of Ritual Holidays

Author(s): Vilmos Tánczos
Subject(s): Anthropology, Social Sciences, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
Published by: Korunk Baráti Társaság
Keywords: ritual holidays; the sacred; sacrifice; oral history; community; power

Summary/Abstract: The author presents through four stories of imprisonment recounted as oral history the general anthropological characteristics of ritual holidays: the conquest of time through ritual holidays, each holiday is centred around an idea, ritual holidays are connected to a sense of community, the holiday expresses a hope for the future, the ritual of the holiday is a sacred event of sacrifice, dictatorship always aspires to control ritual holidays, etc.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 12
  • Page Range: 3-8
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Hungarian
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