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ETHNOLOGICAL AND LINGUISTIC PARTICULARITIES IN THE ŠIBENIK REGION
Šime Županović
; Split
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The traditional culture of the Šibenik region, though it has been described and analyzed in its various segments since Fortis to the present ethnological stuidies, has not yet been sufficiently scientifically dealt with. The original sources and ethnological literature have discussed until now some themes with sporadic analyses of historical transformations. This is why the author, in addition to the ethnological specificalities in the framework of individual traditional specificalities, tried to encompass both the prehistoric and linguistic dimensions. Using the most significant scientific literature concerning the individual problems (Celebration, Wedding, Šibenik costumes), he projected each of these phenomena on the whole events of life. The wide span of these phenomena on the whole events of life. The wide span of the applied ethnologic and lexic materials have made certain logical conclusions possible. This is best expressed in the detailed analysis of the customs at the Festival in Šibenik which abounds in materials and other comparative data, on the basis of which the author tried to give a well documanted conclusion referring to the transformation of customs, beliefs, and continuing it under different historical, religious, ethnic and cultural conditions. In the same way the specific qualities – social, cultural, ritual – are emphasized in the wedding rites, and in maintaining the Old-Balkanic Illyrian influences in the elements of the attire in the Šibenik region preserved until the present days.
The Birth of the Young Sun on Dec. 17, the same time of the Roman Saturnalia, in the city known as the Šibenik FESTIVAL, witnesses the ancient origin of this tradition. It has many characteristics which, in its historical development and transformations, distinguish it thoroughly from the customs of other Slavic peoples. That is why the author wonders how it could possibly have happended that a purely Croatian city, which was mentioned for the first itme as the Seat of the Croatian King Krešimir IV (1066), succeeded in keeping such ancient and unique customs on the Croatian coast.
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Hrčak ID:
137718
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Datum izdavanja:
10.1.1991.
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