Zvejnieku un zemkopju kultūru attiecibas rietumlietuvas lietuviešu un latviešu folklora un etnografija

LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Etnografija; Farming community; Fishing community; Tautosaka; Folklore; Kultūros santykiai; Latvija (Latvia); Paribio sritys; Vakarų Lietuva; West Lithuania; Ūkininkai; Žvejai; Cross-border zones; Cultural relations; Ethnography; Farmers; Fishermen; Folkloras; Folklore; Latvia; Vakarų Lietuva; West Lithuania; Žemdirbių bendruomenė; Žvejų bendruomenė.

ENThe purpose of the paper is to explore some of the more notable characteristics of the disparate cultures of the farming and fishing communities of West Lithuania, their interrelationships and stereoptypes, and lo correlate these characteristics to references in ethnographic and folklore materials. The author contends that the elements of the farmers' culture and mentality dominate Lithuanian folklore, eclipsing the fishermen's folklore from the seacoast. The character of a seaman was not even formed in what is known of West Lithuanian folklore, nor does the Baltic Sea play any noticeable role there. Yet, the fisherman character had been found in the folklore of the coast on both sides of the Curonian Lagoon, as well as at the Nemunas River There is a variety of geographical, historical, political and social reasons that the folklore of the laud assimilated and overshadowed that of the seacoast. The sea motif is more developed in Latvian folklore in the area of West Lithuania from the Curonian Spit to Svcntoji-town, but only fragments of that folklore have come down to us today. The fishermen of the Curonian Spit seem to have preserved some specific, more archaic features of their folklore and ethnic culture, which is quite distinct from that of other legions where their culture was mixed with that of the fanners. These fishermen lived in considerable isolation, but they also fell under far heavier influence from the imposed German culture than did their neighbors, the Lithuanian farmers of the continental coastland. [From the publication]

• Etnologija / Ethnology
• Istorija / History