RITUAL KINSHIP IN SOME CALENDAR CELEBRATIONS A CASE STUDY OF THE CELEBRATION OF EPIPHANY IN MACEDONIA
RITUAL KINSHIP IN SOME CALENDAR CELEBRATIONS A CASE STUDY OF THE CELEBRATION OF EPIPHANY IN MACEDONIA

Author(s): Vesna Petreska
Subject(s): Anthropology, Social Sciences
Published by: Етнографски институт САНУ
Keywords: ritual kinship; godfatherhood; Macedonia; calendar celebrations; Vodici; cultural evenets
Summary/Abstract: Ritual kinship represented through godfatherhood is portrayed in religious celebrations and cultural events that take place on the holiday of “St. John’s Godfatherhood”, or commonly known as the Epiphany “Vodici”. Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of practice shall be taken into consideration. In terms of perspectives on kinship research, primarily in Macedonian ethnology and anthropology, the use of ritual kinship can be perceived with its multifunctional meanings. It can be seen as actualization (reactualization); as popularization in contemporary times; as protection or preservation of intangible cultural heritage; as a cultural memory and representation of the past through religious celebrations and cultural events that are associated with identity, but also encompassing the various ways of comprehension and interpretation of this kind of kinship associated with celebrations, depending on the “symbolic capital” that the participants in these festivities possess.

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