The Ring of Dancers – Images of Faroese Culture
Autor Jonathan Wylie, David Margolin, Einar Haugenen Limba Engleză Hardback – 28 feb 1981
The Faroes are introduced as the Faroese themselves conceive them--as islands both joined and separated by the waterways around about them. The archipelago visualized in terms of such waterways as fjords, the points of the compass, "home" villages, and natural and political districts. The authors also discuss Faroese society as the Faroese conceived it around 1890, by an analysis of a folktale popular at the time about the Ashlad. Placed in its social context, the tale appears as a kind of folk editorial on changing values and changing times.
Perhaps the most important symbol of Faroese identity is the Faroese language. Although it was not made a written language until the 1840s, and was not widely written or read until the 1890s, Faroese has replaced Danish as the islands' official language. In gaining its formal register, it has come to express a modern sense of what it means to be Faroese. The most spectacular Faroese custom, the grindadrap--the slaughter of schools of pilot whales and the celebration that follows the catch--typifies the continuity of the Faroes' anciently rooted identity. The image of the dansiringur, the "ring" of dancers singing ballads of wars and loves of heroic times--lingers throughout the book. The dansiringur, the authors contend, represents the Faroese adaptation of large forms to a land of closely known neighbors and landscapes, the complex inward turnings of Faroese culture, its tortuous sense of wholeness. The book ends by recounting interviews in Torshavn, the Faroese capital, with an artist, a journalist, a politician, and others.
The Ring of Dancers vividly portrays the Faroese and makes clear why they are actively involved in preserving their culture as well as shaping it for the future.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780812277838
ISBN-10: 081227783X
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Ediția:Reprint 2016
Editura: MT – University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN-10: 081227783X
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Ediția:Reprint 2016
Editura: MT – University of Pennsylvania Press
Notă biografică
Jonathan Wylie and David Margolin. Foreword by Einar Haugen