The stark Carpathians : ritual, text, and authority among Ukraine's Hutsuls /

The stark Carpathians : ritual, text, and authority among Ukraine's Hutsuls /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Amato, Anthony J., author.
Imprint:	Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2024]
Description:	xxvii, 477 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Hutsuls -- Ukraine -- Ukrainian Carpathians Region -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. Hutsuls -- Ukraine -- Ukrainian Carpathians Region -- Social life and customs -- 20th century. Folklore -- Ukrainian Carpathians Region. Folklore. Hutsuls -- Social life and customs. Manners and customs. Ukrainian Carpathians Region (Ukraine) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. Ukrainian Carpathians Region (Ukraine) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century. Ukrainian Carpathians Region (Ukraine) -- History -- 19th century. Ukrainian Carpathians Region (Ukraine) -- History -- 20th century. Ukraine -- Ukrainian Carpathians Region. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13473073

Hidden Bibliographic Details
Varying Form of Title:	Ritual, text, and authority among Ukraine's Hutsuls
ISBN:	9781793608383 1793608385 9781793608390
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"This book examines the rituals and texts of the Hutsuls, who inhabit a small mountainous region located in today's Ukraine. The pages cover local affairs, habits, and dispositions as they manifested themselves in rituals and texts in the late nineteenth century and in the early twentieth century"--

Table of Contents:

Text, Ritual, Ethnography, and Authority
The Obtruding Background
Bisons and Lutherans
Pagans and Calvins
Not in Our Club
Astrology and Folkhealing
Peasants, Priests, and the Plow
Marching in the Hollows
Don't Cry, Satan
Cossacks and Heretics
Vampire Collusion and the Ungrateful Dead
Belief and Superstition
Godless Carols
Playing Dead
It's All Over but the Splashing.