| Titre | Questions de vampirisme | |
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| Auteur | Georges Drettas | |
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Revue | Etudes rurales |
| Numéro | no 97-98, 1985 L'ethnographie / Grèce | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Les grecs et l'imaginaire |
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| Page | 201-218 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Questions about Vampirism.
Travel accounts from the 17th century, which sketched a detailed picture of vampirism out of information from South Greece emphasized religious aspects while neglecting one of the most important (if not the essential) definitory traits : proximity. The complicated nature of this trait, which native beliefs expressed especially but not exclusively through spacial metaphors, is reexamined. Given the oppositions that constitute the vampiric nature — oppositions borrowed from oral literature, rituals and commentaries — we can grasp the qualitative importance of the various social groups that beliefs bring into play. The belief in vampires «talks» about social violence in terms such that the negative character of the violence never be absolute. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/rural_0014-2182_1985_num_97_1_3070 |
