Original scientific paper
Comparable Occurrences in Wedding Customs of the Bunjevci and Romance Language Speaking Inhabitants of the Balkan Peninsula
Milana Černelić
; Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The introductory part of the article is dedicated to Milovan Gavazzi, to the ethnology he was promoting and to its meaning and importance for the ethnology of today. The occurrence of staćel, a particular wedding honoured attendant, in the Croatian heritage could not be overlooked in the scientific opus of M. Gavazzi. After a short survey of his contribution to the research of the origin of the staćel, as well as to the latest research in the early nineties, the article is introducing the elements of the Bunjevci wedding customs which might have been formed according to certain indicators in contact with the Balkan Romance speaking population. More though research of each particular element may bring more light to the origins of at least one part of the cultural heritage of all the Bunjevci branches, as well as to the processes of their ethnogenesis.
Keywords
wedding customs; Bunjevci; romance language; Balkan
Hrčak ID:
59863
URI
Publication date:
25.3.1999.
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