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- Title
Elgeta XIX a. pabaigos--XX a. pirmosios pusės Lietuvoje.
- Authors
DŽEKČIORIŪTĖ, Vita
- Abstract
This article continues the previously analysed importance of beggars at the end of the 19th c.-- first half of the 20th c. in Lithuanian rural community everyday life and discusses the importance of beggars as a special persona during family and calendar holidays. Beggars are desirable participants at certain family and calendar holidays. Their presence and the provision of alms to beggars guarantees success in further life. Certain calendar holidays highlight the role of beggars as livestock guardians or as being responsible for good future harvests. Beggars become particularly important during festivals associated with death -- funerals, memorials, All Saints day (Velines). Here beggars appear as intermediaries between the living and the dead. This importance of beggars during holidays at the end of the 19th c.-- first half of the 20th c. in Lithuanian rural communities gives meaning to beggars as a group performing speciic functions and forming a unique social layer.
- Subjects
LITHUANIA; BEGGARS; MANNERS &; customs; RURAL sociology; EVERYDAY life; HOLIDAYS
- Publication
Folk Culture, 2013, Vol 153, Issue 6, p44
- ISSN
0236-0551
- Publication type
Article