ABSTRACT

In this paper, we address issues relative to the clothes used to dress the dead in Greek culture in modern times through to the present. This is done firstly by using descriptions from popular artistic prose, many of which provide significant detail. More specifically, we draw upon testimony from songs about death and the moirologia (laments or dirges), sung over the corpse, based on references in primary folkloric material in both printed and handwritten collections. We also draw from 100 ethnographic interviews conducted between 2005–12. We include all the types of clothes, differentiations in urban and rural areas, in social and economic class, and in gender and age. We also shed light upon the possible ritual uses of these clothes, as encountered in the death customs of the Greek people.

摘要

在本文中，我们将探讨与现代人直到现在的希腊文化中用于为死者打扮的衣服有关的问题。首先，这是通过使用流行艺术散文中的描述来完成的，其中许多描述都提供了重要的细节。更具体地说，我们借鉴约死亡和歌曲见证moirologia（感叹或挽歌），唱歌在尸体的基础上，在印刷和手写的收藏在民间广为流传的主要材料引用。我们还从2005-12年间进行的100次人种学访谈中得出。我们涵盖所有类型的衣服，城市和农村地区，社会和经济阶层以及性别和年龄的差异。我们还阐明了这些衣服在希腊人的死亡习俗中可能的仪式使用。