RECEPTION OF FAMILY CYCLE RITUALS IN PEASANT STORIES ABOUT GERMAN-NASCIP OCCUPATION (BASED ON MATERIALS FROM THE BREST REGION)

The article examines the reception and representation of episodes related to the rituals of the life/family cycle in the context of the retrospective narrativization by "children of war" of the survival experiences of peasants in the Brest region during the Nazi occupation. From an ethical perspective, the issue of "war and the normativity of satisfying symbolic needs" is conceptualized. It has been established that in conditions of permanent danger and critical uncertainty of war, which has become a peculiar embodiment of the fate of both the individual and the collective, traditionally ritualized boundary situations of human life transitions receive a distinctive interpretation – emphasizing deviations.