The Wedding of the Dead: Ritual, Poetics, and Popular Culture in Transylvania

by Gail Kligman

Overview

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1988.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520318151
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	04/28/2023
Series:	Studies on the History of Society and Culture , #4
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	434
File size:	8 MB

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Editorial Reviews

Though the Communist regime has transformed the rhythms of village life in the Socialist republic of Romania, the state has tolerated its traditional rituals. This work, based on 17 months of fieldwork in the village of Maramures, analyzes weddings and funerals through the oral poetry accompanying these rites of passage. Included in the work are a detailed sociological portrait of Maramures and dozens of poems, toasts, laments, and songs (in the original language with English translation) pointing to the personal as well as the sociocentric concerns of this peasant community. Winnie Lambrecht, Brown Univ., Providence

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