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The given interdisciplinary research regards on the basis of the analysis of literary texts the specificity of the perception of the Holocaust in Latvia that demonstrates transformation of anthropological categories related to the perception of the alien, life, death, responsibility, sinfulness. In the contemporary Latvian cultural space the theme of the Holocaust is given a special place. It is one of the aspects of the interpretation of the events of World War II and the human factor in the context of the war. (...

Cemetery culture is a phenomenon of everyday life culture that represents many anthropological concepts: memory, life, living, death, human body, soul, etc. Each culture develops its own model of the space of cemetery with the principles of designing the cemetery space, tombstone culture, burial, cemetery territory and its maintenance as well as commemoration traditions as its components. Investigation of cemeteries in the border area is a significant segment of studying the aspects of present and past, individual...