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Title of the article: |
CRADLE: CULTURAL-ETHNOGRAPHIC APPROACH TO RESEARCH OF THE FIRST EXTERNAL LOCUS |
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Author(s): |
Elena N. Suvorkina |
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Information about the author/authors |
Elena N. Suvorkina, PhD in Cultural Studies, Head of the Systematization Sector of the Scientific Library, Ryazan State University named for S. Yesenin, Svobody St., 46, 390000 Ryazan, Russia. E-mail: suvorkina@list.ru |
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Section |
Theory and history of culture |
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Year |
2017 |
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Volume |
Vol. 46 |
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Pages |
Pp. 86-93 |
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Received |
May 22, 2017 |
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Date of publication |
December 15, 2017 |
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Index UDK |
392.16 |
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Index BBK |
71.04 |
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Abstract |
The article discusses the cradle as part of the childhood culture of the Slavic peoples. The General motive for the totality of its various designations (zybka, kolybka, kolyska, lyul`ka, kalub`el (cradle, crib, rocker, cot, bassinet — something unsteady etc.) is the idea of movement, motion sickness, exhibited in vertical and horizontal oscillations. That said the bassinet was focused on being in the middle, and on the centrality of house space (determined by the ratio of top-bottom rather than lateral borders of house space). In this position, and in General all actions associated with the cradle contain a deep sacral meaning: wishes of quick growth to the baby. Specific features of the first extra-uterine baby locus could vary – classification structure, shape, material, and manufacturing technique. The following design used to be the most popular: the cradle was attached to “otchep” — long and flexible pole, which passed through the ring joist with one end while the other rested on the wall or was cut into it. The details of the device are recorded in the folklore patterns, some of which are by now transformed into some sort of phonetic sophistry or nonsense, as shown in one of the examples, reported by informant (Ryazan oblast, v. Sotnitsyno). |
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Keywords |
cradle, lulka, zybka, child, childhood, motion sickness, culture of everyday life. |
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References |
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