Проектът "Радуил" — етноложко изследване на селото между "микроистории", "преживяна история" и "собствен живот"
The Radouil Project, An Ethnological Study of the Village Between "Microhistory", "Lived History" and "Its Own Life"

Summary/Abstract: In co-operation between the Institute of European Ethnology at Munich University and the Institute of Folklore at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences the research on the bulgarian village of Raduil started a few years ago. Its main interest is to investigate the everyday life under socialist rule, seen through the eyes of a village's population. The analyses of the research project use, besides archival sources, mainly autobiographical interviews. In doing so the question arises and has to be taken into consideration seriously, which value the memories could have. The article discusses very briefly the notions „micro-history", „history by experience", and „one's own life" and the scientific (i.e. historical, ethnological, and sociological) concepts connected with them. Within these concepts, each in its specific way, autobiographical source materials are used to describe historical realities and to show the subjective valuations of historical facts. What they do have in common is the perspective „from below". The project „Raduil" intends to use the presented ideas for its research purposes.

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