Carpatho-Rusyns

ETHNONYMS: Lemki, Rusnatsi, Rusyny

Kinship

It is not uncommon to find Carpatho-Rusyn villages composed of people who almost all derive from three or four familial lines. Such relationships are most evident in the predominance of only a few family names in many villages. Distant third, fourth, and fifth cousins are often co-opted back into the family social unit by becoming godparents, who quite often are chosen from the same lineage ( fajta ) as the parents.

Bibliography

Bogatyrev, Pierre (1929). Actes magiques, rites et croyances en Russie subcarpathique. Paris: Institut d'Etudes Slaves.

Bonkáló, Alexander (1990). The Rusyns. Boulder, Colo., and New York: East European Monographs.

Magocsi, Paul Robert (1978). The Shaping of a National Identity: Subcarpathian Rus', 1848-1948. Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press.

Magocsi, Paul Robert (1988). Carpatho-Rusyn Studies: An Annotated Bibliography. Vol. 1, 1975-1984. New York and London: Garland Publishing.

Markovyč, Pavlo (1987). Rusyn Easter Eggs from Eastern Slovakia. Vienna: Wilhelm Braumüller.

PAUL ROBERT MAGOCSI