Summary
Bukovica: folk life and customs / Vladimir Ardalić; edited, compiled the dictionary, wrote the foreword and commentary by Živko Bjalanović; [photographs by Radivoj Simonović]
Exhaustive, clear, true and picturesque texts about Bukovica, that land part of northern Dalmatia, are completed and documented ethnographically and orally in this book. Descriptions of the folk life of the people of Bukovica, the religious affiliation of Orthodox "Christians" and Catholics "Christians", characters, speeches, habits, clothing, hard life, diet, marriage, celebrations are described in detail so that readers get a true picture of that climate in the time of the beginning of the 20th century. The peculiarity of the book is that the author, after analyzing some phenomenon, event or custom, ends with a proverb or a joke from oral literature. Interestingness and originality can be found in the chapters on cooperative life, beliefs (fairies, witches, werewolves), and folk tales (Marko Kraljević, The Golden Apple, etc.) enrich this valuable monograph.
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