Принос към историята на традиционното семейство: Един възрожденски скандал
A Contribution to the History of Traditional Family: A Nineteenth Century Squabble

Summary/Abstract: The article claims that the family, even at the dawn of modernization, is a field of complex, volatile, reversible social forces. The force field of the supposedly traditional family is described on the basis of an analysis of unfinished play by one of the most popular Bulgarian writers of the XIX c., Petko Slaveykov. The close reading of the play demonstrates that the genealogy of the concept of patriarchal family is shaped by the power of the XIX c. ethnographic studies of common law which discipline the tacit, unreliable, situated common-sense knowledges so as to transform them into objective and academic truths. The article examines as well the discursive effects of the ethnographic concept of patriarchal family which can be boiled down to silencing the female voices and producing knowledge about men, women and desire crucial to the functioning of the discursive apparatus of masculine domination.

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