Published: 2019-12-25

An animal cemetery in "Pan Tadeusz". Mickiewicz’s zootanatology in the light of indigenous knowledge

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Abstract

The article is an attempt to non-anthropological read the fragment of Pan Tadeusz about an animal cementery. In the light of indigenous knowledge, Mickiewicz’s “matecznik” seems to be a relic of the animistic imagination, in which human and non-human persons have similar ontological status. Basing on the folk tradition rooted in the direct experience, the poet also anticipates quite modern natural science diagnoses – about the “spiritual life of animals” and their convergent with human mortual customs.

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Filipowicz, A. (2019). An animal cemetery in "Pan Tadeusz". Mickiewicz’s zootanatology in the light of indigenous knowledge. Zoophilologica. Polish Journal of Animal Studies, (5), 185–201. https://doi.org/10.31261/ZOOPHILOLOGICA.2019.05.15

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No. 5 (2019)
Published: 2019-12-31


ISSN: 2719-2687
eISSN: 2451-3849
Ikona DOI 10.31261/ZOOPHILOLOGICA

Publisher
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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