The Ethnocultural Space of the Settlement and the Ritual Table Cover Image

Селищното етнокултурно пространство и обредните трапези
The Ethnocultural Space of the Settlement and the Ritual Table

Author(s): Georgi Georgiev
Subject(s): History, Anthropology, Social Sciences, Cultural history, Customs / Folklore, Ethnohistory, Oral history, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure
Published by: Великотърновски университет „Св. св. Кирил и Методий”
Keywords: ritual table; ethnocultural space; settlement; house; source of water; vow

Summary/Abstract: The article examines the traditional Bulgarian ritual table which marks the permanent appropriation of the space of a settlement: the foundation of a new settlement, building a new house, the digging of a new well. It also looks at the ritual table in the process of taking vows. These tables are presented as ritual situations, in which food and nourishment play a central role.

  • Issue Year: XXI/2013
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 73-83
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Bulgarian