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Title: | Treatise on the South Slavic Vila |
Authors: | Juric, Dorian |
Advisor: | Colarusso, John |
Department: | Anthropology |
Keywords: | Anthropology;Anthropology |
Publication Date: | Sep-2010 |
Abstract: | <p>This thesis seeks to clarify the often confused understanding of the Serbo-Croatian vila and elucidate her position within the archaic South Slavic world view. Through a survey of her functional traits within the Serbo-Croatian epics, the argument presented here attempts to typify her actions in the epic sphere, and weigh those against her conception in the folkloric sphere, making a case for the understanding and study of the vila as one distinct figure divided into two typological facets - one mythological in nature, the other a product of folk custom. From there the thesis explores a comparative Indo-European mythological study of the isolated epic functions of the vila, in order to properly posit her among similar analogues in the Indo-European myth system.</p> |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/11375/9407 |
Identifier: | opendissertations/4533 5551 2047573 |
Appears in Collections: | Open Access Dissertations and Theses |
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