Традиционно кръвно родство и сватовство в системата на българските родствени отношения
Traditional blood kinship and matchmaking in the system of Bulgarian kinship relations

Summary/Abstract: This paper presents an attempt at outlining the specific role of blood kinship and matchmaking in the traditional kinship system of Bulgarians from the end of XIX and the first half of XX century. In developing the problem the author mostly uses the studies of Bulgarian ethnologists, thus presenting the results of Bulgarian ethnology in studying the two kinship institutions. The content points to outlining the traditional forms of social organizations inherent to blood kinship and matchmaking, documented mostly in the available ethnographic sources from the end of XIX and the first half of XX century. The preferred basic method of work is systemic-structural analysis in order to identify the specific structural features of blood kinship and matchmaking and trace their usual interaction in the system of kinship relations. Their ritual and kinship ties with the fictive kinship and brotherhood at the traditional wedding are discussed.

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