САД РАСХОДЯЩИХСЯ КУКОЛ: РИТУАЛЬНЫЕ ПРАКТИКИ СОВРЕМЕННОЙ КУЛЬТУРЫ ЛАТВИИ
THE GARDEN OF DIVERGING DOLLS: THE RITUALISTIC PRACTICES OF CONTEMPORARY LATVIAN CULTURE

Summary/Abstract: In the present article two cases of a doll usage in ritualistic and rite contexts in frames of contemporary Latvian culture are analyzed. Doll is a part of so called „object code” of traditional and contemporary culture; it is manifested in different play and ritualistic practices. Because of sacral meanings of traditional culture partly gone lost and with open-type ( contemporary) culture development new traditions begin to form. In analyzed cases the gearing of a doll with symbolic meaning mainly occur owing to an idea of anthropomorphism that is inherented in a doll. In this aspect doll becomes a person’s symbolic double in fest rites, confirming vitality of ritualistic practices in contemporary Latvian culture. Rite and ritualistic contexts, offering by postfolklore ( in terminology by S. Nekludow) society, appeal to symbolics of traditional culture. Not less significant in its symbolism is fest poetics that is characteristic of doll installations. The aesthetic motivations for the usage of the dolls reveal the hidden ritual forms, passive and unconscious with the respondents at the moment. However, at any time these latent ritual functions of dolls can be brought into focus

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