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The Curse: On Folk Magic of the Word

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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12528/81

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Engelking, Anna

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Gutowska, Anna

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Instytut Slawistyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk [Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences]

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2017

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book

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978-83-64031-63-2

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Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Poland

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Monographs
Publisher: Instytut Slawistyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk [Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences]
Description: The publication “Monographs” consists of six monographs by authors from the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, translated and published within the framework of the grant of the “National Program for the Development of Humanities” No. 0129/NPRH3/H31/82/2014 entitled “Slavic Studies Monographs: Linguistics and Cultural Studies”, in the years 2014–2017.

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Abstract

Anna Engelking, ethnographer and ethnolinguist, draws on her long-standing research in the Polish-Belarusian borderland to answer the question about the nature of folk curse ritual, the particular speech-action that is at its core and the vision of the world in which it is organically emerged.

Keywords

Polska; Poland; Białoruś; Republic of Belarus [Belarus]; semantyka (znaczenie znaków językowych); semantics (meaning of linguistic signs); antropologia; anthropology

Funding

This academic publication was financed within the “National Programme for the Development of Humanities” of the Minister of Science and Higher Education in 2014–2017.

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Anna Gutowska is the translator of the book.