Professionals and Marginals in Slavic and Jewish Cultural Traditions
Year: 2022
Type: book
Abstract: The issue “Professionals and Marginals in Slavic and Jewish Cultural Traditions” of the annual “Slavic and Jewish Cultures: Dialogue, Similarities, Differences” includes materials of the international conference, held in Moscow on December 1-3, 2021. The book includes 12 articles by Russian and Israeli researchers who have devoted their research to the social and cultural role of professionals and marginals in various ethno-confessional traditions. The problem of perception of a professional in culture is one of the aspects of the universal semantic opposition “one’s own — another’s”, when belonging to “one’s own” or “foreign” community or class becomes a defining marker. Traditionally, “social strangers”, to which representatives of various professions belong, were assigned a special role in calendar, magical and occasional rites. Thus, professionals and social outcasts were not considered outcasts, society assigned them a special place and a special role, delegating special cultural functions to them. Like the previous issues of the series, the book is distinguished by a large amount of field and archival materials introduced into scientific circulation for the first time.
Language: English
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4313376786