Пространственные характеристики ритуальных практик в народной медицине Белорусов
The Spatial Characteristics of Ritual Practices in Belarusians‘ Popular Medicine
Author(s): Tatjana Volodina, Vladimir LobačSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theology and Religion, Sociology of Religion
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie
Keywords: popular medicine; chronotop; ritual; model of the world; charm exorcism
Summary/Abstract: The authors of the article pay attention to the main elements of a natural and culturallandscape, which are the place for ritual cure or a virtual subject/locus of medical magic procedure.The most frequent spacial categories are „The Centre of the World” and „The Border”, and alsolines of communication of artificial (a road) or natural (a river) character which combine all theparts of the universe structure. All of them are invariants of different parts of the indivisible modelof the world. This system of the universe is especially functional in the context of symbolical-ritual(magic) methods of the Belarusian popular medicine because it gave a possibility to a person ofthe Tradition to restore the cosmic order (here it is health as one of its components) withoutleaving „the cultural field” (home, farmstead, village).
Journal: Acta Neophilologica
- Issue Year: 2007
- Issue No: IX
- Page Range: 143-153
- Page Count: 11
- Language: Russian