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In his new book, which contains seven ethnolinguistic studies, Walter Puchner guides us through the Greek and Balkan folk culture and to the corners of the world where monsters and dog-headed creatures, dwarfs and werewolves, vampires and fairies, goblins and demons with wild and ridiculous actions reside.
The author operates in a sensitive and nuanced field of research to seek the semantic networks that surround a word or phrase, which change and shift according to the context, in an almost artistic manner.
Through the exploration of names and a rich linguistic material derived from proverbs, insults, and sayings, the liturgy and worship practices, folk medicine, and everyday life, Puchner investigates the origins, forms, and meanings of the names of strange beings that feed the popular imagination.
He deals with customary disguises and evaluates the relevant theories that have been developed with historical, linguistic, and geographical evidence to show us how human fear transforms into beliefs, magical customs, and rituals.
[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]
Manufacturer
- Author
- Walter Puchner
- Publisher
- Armos
- Type
- Geography, Sociology, Folklore, Culture
- Language
- Greek
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 216
- Release Date
- 12/2013
- Publication Date
- 2013
- Dimensions
- 14x21 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9789605278014
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