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Kolijani 2004, ritual on the Island of Krk: revival or continuity

People in the village of Gabonjin on the Island of Krk (Croatia) organise kolijani events every ten years. The koledva, carol singing in the procession around the village and choosing the king, with king's tonoc dance as the climax of ritual events which had been recorded in May 2004 is a starting point for discussion about the revival through the questions of identification on both, individual and collective levels. The impressive feeling of the spiritual and physical homogeneousness and unity of the whole community had been experienced. This ceremonial public performance is what re-affirms the sense of the Gabonjin community. It also enables that symbolic presentation of village unity can be moved from the secular to the liturgical sphere. The symbolic bond with the dead strengthens the bonding of the whole community, too. It is a sign of mutual respect and hierarchy in the community, which helps in maintaining the established order. Thus, the ecclesiastical and the secular, the religious and the popular permeate in the kolijani rituals. There was time in the past that on the same island in some other villages people did not organise the koledve for more than 10 years, sometimes even for 20 years. They were waiting for the moment they could organise such an event. From the perspective of collective memory, the question of time, and the dialectic of identification it will be discussed is it a revival. Does it have the same meaning for researchers as for the participants? Can we talk about discontinuity and revival in such examples as this from the Island of Krk.

dance; ritual; Krk; Croatia

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