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05.12.2024
This volume of the annual series Slavic & Jewish Cultures: Dialogue, Similarities, Differences is entitled The Concept of Border in Slavic and Jewish Cultural Traditions. It contains revised versions of selected papers delivered during the international conference The Concept of Border in Slavic and Jewish Cultural Traditions held in Moscow on December 6–8, 2023.
The volume The Concept of Border in Slavic and Jewish Cultural Traditions includes 23 articles by scholars from Russia and Israel. The article address a broad range of issues. These include borders as elements of linguistic and mental worldviews; the phenomenon of the “open” border that increasingly serves as a vector of cultural attraction between neighboring traditions rather than a demarcation line; forms of cultural contact and antagonism of traditions at the cultural frontier; the formation of boundaries within a society (including communities, “island traditions”, subcultural and religious groups, as well as boundaries between the religious and the secular); symbolic borders between this world and the other (such as temporal boundaries in folk calendars and traditional rituals, the world of people and the otherworldly space, the dangerous “foreign” space) as elements of cultural codes, their materialization in cultural symbols, and their reflection in the language of culture; the crossing of the boundaries of “one's own” space and ways of mastering “foreign” spaces (including the breaking and transformation of cultural stereotypes, adaptation of elements from another culture, etc.); mechanisms for dealing with violators of established boundaries (such as prohibitions and prescriptions, traditional rituals of condemnation and reproach); genres of literature and folklore from antiquity to modernity that reflect the concept of borders and its perception in different eras (for example, travel narratives, pilgrimages, visions, legends, mythological prose, etc.); speech genres that articulate the concept of borders in cultural texts (including oaths, curses, proverbs, expulsion and intimidation formulas against enemies, diseases, mythological characters, harmful beings, etc.).
In June 2023, the annual was included into the international scientific indexing and citation system Scopus (encompassing all volumes from 2019 onwards).
You can read and download the issue on the website
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This volume of the annual series Slavic & Jewish Cultures: Dialogue, Similarities, Differences is entitled The Concept of Border in Slavic and Jewish Cultural Traditions. It contains revised versions of selected papers delivered during the international conference The Concept of Border in Slavic and Jewish Cultural Traditions held in Moscow on December 6–8, 2023.
The volume The Concept of Border in Slavic and Jewish Cultural Traditions includes 23 articles by scholars from Russia and Israel. The article address a broad range of issues. These include borders as elements of linguistic and mental worldviews; the phenomenon of the “open” border that increasingly serves as a vector of cultural attraction between neighboring traditions rather than a demarcation line; forms of cultural contact and antagonism of traditions at the cultural frontier; the formation of boundaries within a society (including communities, “island traditions”, subcultural and religious groups, as well as boundaries between the religious and the secular); symbolic borders between this world and the other (such as temporal boundaries in folk calendars and traditional rituals, the world of people and the otherworldly space, the dangerous “foreign” space) as elements of cultural codes, their materialization in cultural symbols, and their reflection in the language of culture; the crossing of the boundaries of “one's own” space and ways of mastering “foreign” spaces (including the breaking and transformation of cultural stereotypes, adaptation of elements from another culture, etc.); mechanisms for dealing with violators of established boundaries (such as prohibitions and prescriptions, traditional rituals of condemnation and reproach); genres of literature and folklore from antiquity to modernity that reflect the concept of borders and its perception in different eras (for example, travel narratives, pilgrimages, visions, legends, mythological prose, etc.); speech genres that articulate the concept of borders in cultural texts (including oaths, curses, proverbs, expulsion and intimidation formulas against enemies, diseases, mythological characters, harmful beings, etc.).
In June 2023, the annual was included into the international scientific indexing and citation system Scopus (encompassing all volumes from 2019 onwards).
You can read and download the issue on the website
