„Галичка сватба“ от Република Македония – между обреда и фестивала
„GALICHNIK WEDDING“ – BETWEEN THE RITUAL AND THE FESTIVAL

Summary/Abstract: The text presents the festival, dedicated to the traditional wedding in the village of Galichnik, Republic of Macedonia, in the light of the relation “tradition – modernity”. The Galichnik Wedding Festival was founded in 1963, it is an annual festival in which a selected couple gets married in the traditional “Galichka” style wedding. Traditionally the wedding lasted for 5 days with the main activities on St. Peter's Day (12 July) every year. It was the only period of the year when couples got married, because it is typical for the local people called “miyatsi” (ethnographic group). Today Galichnik Wedding Festival is part of the festival “Galichko Leto” (Galicnik Summer) and it is a two-day event held on the weekend nearest to 12 July and it serves as a cultural and tourist attraction. Practically, however, this contemporary version of the ritual is “artificial” in the words of Yovanka Yurukoska (born in Galicnik, 1930), it is commercialized and it is part of the developing of cultural and rural tourism in Macedonia.

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