Ethnologica Dalmatica, Vol. 25 , 2018.
Preliminary communication
Advent Tradition In Culture of Places Broce and Ston
Marina Asturić
orcid.org/0000-0001-9700-8372
; Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Splitu
Abstract
These examples include Advent holidays and feasts in December and it's recorded in the village Broce and small town Ston on the peninsula Pelješac. Research included older people (mostly oldest habitants in the village), some of the middle age people and one young person. Advent has important celebration of St. Nicholas and his church is in the Ston area. Some of the other traditions are related with St. Barbara, St. Lucy or Immaculate Conception. Christmas Eve comes after those traditions. There is one special ritual for Christmas Eve and it's called kolendavanje (kolenda). That process can be found in the other place sin Croatia, but there are significant differences. There is also something called 'gobinjanje', and only the oldest habitants remember that tradition. Most of these rituals are forgotten among younger generations, but middle age people seem to remember some of them. With the exception of Christmas Eve and St. Nicholas, interest and influence of other celebrations is nonexistent.
Keywords
Advent; Christmas Eve; feasts; traditions; processions
Hrčak ID:
205225
URI
Publication date:
5.9.2018.
Visits: 2.058 *