20.500.12556/RUL-185640 “From house to funeral home” changes in funeral rituals in rural Slovakia This paper examines how the introduction of death-related buildings, such as the funeral home in rural Slovakia, alters the ways and frequency of contact with the dead body and, in turn, influences the course and certain aspects of funeral rituals. It presents a case study based on long-term ethnographic research, analysing data collected over three years in a village in the Horehronie region of the Slovak Republic with a predominantly Roman Catholic population. Through analysis of ethnographic data, the study argues that the establishment of the funeral home and the related shift in the space where the body is kept before the funeral changed the course and some elements of funeral rituals. The funeral home not only serves an essential function in the funeral process but can also gradually become a space and symbol associated with the dead, death, and the afterlife; it also embodies and reflects religious beliefs and norms that can shape both collective and individual behaviours and emotional states. ethnology anthropology of death funeral rituals transformation funerals funeral home death Slovakia etnologija antropologija smrti pogrebni rituali pogrebi mrliške vežice smrt Slovaška true false false Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Neznano 2026-08-14 11:06:15 2026-08-14 11:06:21 2026-08-15 04:01:48 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2026 0 0 Str. 91-113 no. 1 Vol. 85 2026 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 2026-06-30 393(437.6) 1211-8117 10.59618/NV.2026.1.05 287794947 https://narodopisnyvestnik.cz/cz/article/itm-3069261 1 0fc0116c-97bf-11f1-9b0d-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=244374 05-uhrin.pdf 05-uhrin.pdf 1 2D85F97F42A1C9CAE207567AB389CA2E 084fbaae3b6d0fd9257b9d2b2c7ca016c194d8282125b3c40c1b8befa3149dc6 65032fb7-97bf-11f1-9b0d-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=244377 Filozofska fakulteta 0 0 0