Original scientific paper
Traditional heritage of Murter in the contemporary national memory
Marko Dragić
Abstract
The paper is divided into twenty-two chapters and two sub-chapters
in which the most important church holidays, processions, and secular customs of Murter have been dealt with in a multidisciplinary manner.
Some of the examples quoted here have been forgotten and, most probably, lost forever. However, many of the almost forgotten customs, rites, ceremonies, processions and forms of oral literature are still remembered by the population of Murter. Generally speaking, the Croatian traditional heritage has been, regrettably, insufficiently explored, and it is exactly owing to it that the national and religious identities have been preserved. The Croatian spirituality is deeply rooted in both the West European and the Slav civilisations. Some of the folk rites, ceremonies, and processions refl ect the elements of ancient times. The paper looks upon the tradition of Murter in Biblical, historical, anthropological, and philological terms and contexts. All the records obtained by field research carried out between 2005 and 2009, have been quoted in their original form.
Keywords
spirituality; identity; folk customs; processions and rites; oral literature
Hrčak ID:
112446
URI
Publication date:
14.5.2010.
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