Одяг як символічне тіло (на матеріалах української традиційної культури) : [розділ книги]

Abstract

У статті обгрунтувано думку, що в межах міфопоетичного мислення, в контексті української (і загалом слов'янської) традиційної культури одяг відіграє роль не оздоби тіла, не обігріву тіла і навіть не захисту тіла, одяг є самим тілом - символічним тілом. Одяг є репрезентантом тіла на рівні культури.

In traditional culture, clothing served to cover and heat the body, as well as fuifilling a major symbolic function as cultural représentative of the body. Clothing served as a cultural analogue of the body, precisely as a symbolic body. Without clothing, a body did not exist: stillborn and unbaptized children were regarded as bodiless and deprived of an anthropomorphic, mythical character. Such children were not ritually allocated with clothing at birth (thus, the way to separate them from the demonie was to give them a scrap of cloth or to sew a small shirt). Clothing acted as a mode of formation, completion and organisation of the body during the préparation and realization of production and reproduction. Clothing “completed” , or “made out” those body parts, the functionality of which grew at corresponding stages of life. Sometimes nonfunctional or diseased parts of a body were rcplaced with clothing (the childless woman dressed in a shirt of childbearing women, in the hope of giving birth as a resuilt).