The Dark Legacy of the South
The Dark Legacy of the South
Traumatic Memory, Silence and Recollection of the 1946–47 Famine Among the Gagauzs and Bulgarians from Bessarabia
Author(s): Miglena IvanovaSubject(s): Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure
Published by: LIT Verlag
Keywords: Moldova; Bessarabia; Gagauzs; Bulgarians; famine; cannibalism;
Summary/Abstract: The article analyses the communities of memory of the Bulgarians and Gagauzs so as to reveal the recollection of the 1946–47 Soviet famine. Besides, the author outlines the related actors, politics of memory and particular processes of victimization. Special attention is also paid to the memory work providing for the remembrance, re-evaluation and re-inscription of famine-driven instances of cannibalism.
Journal: Ethnologia Balkanica
- Issue Year: 2016
- Issue No: 19
- Page Range: 55-69
- Page Count: 15
- Language: English
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