The Oxford Handbook of Slavic and East European Folklore

Buch | Hardcover

1194 Seiten

2025
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-008077-8 (ISBN)

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The Oxford Handbook of Slavic and East European Folklore provides a wide-ranging survey of the oral traditions of the Slavic and East European world. It covers national, ethnic, racial, cultural, linguistic, and religious groups extending from the eastern zones of Russia to the western borders of the Czech Republic and from Estonia along the Baltic Sea to Greece at the southern tip of the Balkan Peninsula. The volume presents this broad world area - loosely connected by circumstances of geography, history, and politics - as a large and diverse cultural continuum.

In forty-three chapters written by scholars ranging from folklorists who are natives of the Slavic and East European region to British and North American specialists in the field, Editor-in-Chief Margaret Hiebert Beissinger presents an extensive array of distinctive yet comparable traditions, rituals, and genres. Divided into five sections, the volume includes: the folklore and lyric genres of the life cycle (wedding, birth, and death rites); calendrical-cycle traditions, dance, magic, and folk belief; traditional prose and poetic narrative; oral traditions among minority ethno-religious and racial communities, as well as folk and popular music and song; and the folklore of everyday life, including aphoristic verbal forms and material culture. The volume's chapters focus on folklore of the nineteenth through the twenty-first centuries, from the very "traditional," to contemporary issues that influence folklore and expressive culture, such as life-changing pandemics, ethnic conflict, and war, as well as evolving gender roles. The handbook presents a wide assortment of materials for an audience of students and specialists alike: folklorists, ethnographers, anthropologists, ethnomusicologists, and literature scholars, as well as others who wish to explore the rich oral traditions of the Slavic and East European world.

Margaret Hiebert Beissinger is a Research Scholar and Lecturer in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University. Before teaching at Princeton, she was on the faculty of the Slavic Department and the Folklore Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research and publications focus on Slavic and East European folklore, oral epic, and Romani culture and music-making. She has authored numerous articles and chapters, as well as The Art of the Lăutar: The Epic Tradition of Romania and coedited the volumes Epic Traditions in the Contemporary World and Manele in Romania: Cultural Expression and Social Meaning in Balkan Popular Music.

About the Editor
List of Contributors

Introduction
Margaret Hiebert Beissinger

Part I: Life-Cycle Folklore

Weddings
1. Ukrainian Wedding Rituals
Natalie Kononenko

2. Russian Wedding Songs
Olga Levaniouk

3. Serbian Wedding Practices in Post-War Kosovo
Sanja Zlatanovi'c

4. Tambura Bands and Sonic Flag Rituals in Croatian Weddings
Ian MacMillen

5. Marriage and Wedding Traditions among the Cortorar Roma in Romania
C&at&alina Tes&ar

Childbirth
6. Estonian Runosongs on Childcare, Pregnancy, Birth, and Intimacy
Mari Sarv Väina

7. The Folklore of Childbirth in Russia
Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby

Death Rites
8. Greek Death Rituals and Lament
Gail Holst-Warhaft

9. Customary Practices of Death and Mourning in Albania
Bledar Kondi

10. Death Rites and Laments in Russia
Elizabeth Warner

Part II: The Traditional Calendar, Magic, and Folk Belief

Folklore of the Seasonal Cycle
11. Baltic Calendrical Folklore
Elo-Hanna Seljamaa

12. Seasonal Rituals, Traditional Dance, and Ethnochoreology in Serbia
Selena Rako%cevi'c

13. Folklore of the Seasonal Cycle in Croatia: The Lastovo Carnival
Iva Niem%ci'c

14. Dance in Calendrical Community Celebrations in Romania
Liz Mellish

Magic and the Power of Words
15. Magic in Hungary: Verbal Charms, Benedictions, and Exorcisms
Dániel Bárth

16. "Inverted Behavior" in South Slavic Ritual and Magic
Maria Vivod

Varieties of Folk Belief
17. Eschatology and Peasant Visions in Moldovan Folk Religion
James A. Kapaló

18. Songs, Rites, and Identity in the Religious Folklore of Latvia and Lithuania
Michael Strmiska, Gatis Ozoli,n%s, Odeta Rudling, and Digne Üdre

19. Folk Belief and Religion in Ukraine: Creating the Charisma of Place
Mariya Lesiv

Part III: Oral Traditional Narrative

Poetry: Epic and Ballad
20. Byliny:Russian Folk Epic
Natalie Kononenko

21. Dumy: Ukrainian Folk Epic
Natalie Kononenko

22. South Slavic Epic and the Philology of the Border
David F. Elmer

23. South Slavic Women's Ballads
Aida Vidan

Prose: Folktale and Legend
24. Folk Tales in Greece
Maria Kaliambou

25. Slovak Tales and the Collections of Pavol Dob%sinský
Jana Piro%s%cáková

26. Vladimir Propp and Russian Wondertales
Sibelan Forrester

27. Supernatural Legends in the Western Balkans
Dorian Juri'c

28. Polish Urban Legends as a Folklore Genre
Marta Wójcicka

Part IV: Music, Song, Identity, and Performance

Ethnoreligious Identity: Music and Song

29. The Sevdalinka as Traditional Bosnian Love Song
Nirha Efendi'c

30. The Traditional Yiddish Folk Song
Michael Lukin

31. Klezmer Music in Eastern Europe and America
Walter Zev Feldman

Balkan Romani Music Traditions
32. Romani (Gypsy) Music in Bulgaria and Macedonia
Lozanka Peycheva

33. The Music of Urban L&autari in Southern Romania
Sperancta R&adulescu and Margaret H. Beissinger

34. Romani Musical Labor and Cultural Politics in Southeastern Serbia
Alexander Markovi'c

Folk and Popular Music in Post-communist Eastern Europe
35. Bluegrass as Folk Music in the Czech Republic
Lee Bidgood

36. Folktron: Folklore Influences in Contemporary Bulgarian Popular Music
Asya Draganova

37. Albanian-Language Etnopop and the Emergence of a "Balkan" Regional Music Sphere
Jane C. Sugarman

Part V: The Folklore of Everyday Life

Folk Wit, Wisdom, and the Spoken Word
38. Chastushki
Laura J. Olson and Svetlana Adonyeva

39. Wise and Humorous Words: Hungarian Proverbs, Riddles, and Jokes
Anna T. Litovkina, Katalin Vargha, Péter Barta, and Hrisztalina Hrisztova-Gotthardt

Material Culture
40. Tradition and Adaptation in Russian Folk Art
Alison Hilton

41. Folk Art Reassessed: Entangled Material Culture in Rural Romania
Alexandra Urdea and Magdalena Buchczyk

42. Foodways in Moldova
Jennifer Cash

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	07.11.2023
Reihe/Serie	Oxford Handbooks
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	175 x 246 mm
Gewicht	2087 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Anthologien
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-19-008077-9 / 0190080779
ISBN-13	978-0-19-008077-8 / 9780190080778
Zustand	Neuware