Poetry and Politics in a Transylvanian Village
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2582094 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gail Kligman (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1983 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 83 |
| Publication date | 1983-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropological Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-5491 • E-ISSN: 1534-1518 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3317343 |
| OpenAlex | W2334732392 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 4 |
This paper examines the differential symbolic manipulation of traditional poetic forms for purposes of proand anti-communist commentary. Data were collected in 1978-79 in a semi-cooperativized village in northern Transylvania. Rhymed couplets, traditional and improvised, generally constitute the primary mode of communication during ritual occasions. Though their content is seemingly determined by the event, they also point to loci of transcendent social concern, providing a forum for the expression of ideological transformation. Poetry is also utilized effectively in written form both formally as an educational, ideological tool, and informally for correspondence. For both Party and peasant, symbolic forms may be viewed as effecting and affecting social action
Action (physics · Archaeology · Art · Communism · Event (particle physics · Expression (computer science · Ideology · Literature · Mode (computer interface · Peasant · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · The Symbolic · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · Computer Science · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · History · Law · Psychology · Soviet and Russian History
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2008 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |