Етнология Urbana vs Eтнология Rustica (Моделът на етнологическите изследвания през ХХ–ХХІ в. в България)
Ethnologia Urbana vs Ethnologia Rustica (The model of ethnological studies of the 20th–21st centuries in Bulgaria)

Summary/Abstract: Ethnologia urbana and Ethnologia rustica are part of the academic field that is defined as “knowledge for/from the people”. Since the begin¬ning of the 20th century until the beginning of the 21st century, the leading understanding in Bulgarian scholarship has been that that ethnologia rustica is the center of the ethnological optics. Thus, the process of so¬cial stratification and differentiation between citizens of the villages and citizens of the towns is marked, a process that is parallel to the process of the urban population growth after 1878. The scholars have considered the villagers as constitutive and emblematic part of the Bulgarian society and therefore they were viewed as а group worthy of being studied. The interest in the “city” and its study in Bulgaria have not appeared until the end of the 20th century. An important but hidden reason for this rather late interest of Bulgarian ethnology (folklore studies, cultural anthropology, cultural studies) towards the town and its citizens is the understanding that modern societies – especially those in the EU, and in particular the Bulgarian one – are societies of which is typical the denial of searching for answers of such basic as: Who are we? Where are we going? Which way? Thus the urban ethnology has remained outside of the research in¬terest until the beginning of the 21st century.

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