Property Transmission and Household Developmental Cycle. Continuity and Change. The Case of a Czech Village in Bulgaria (1900–1950)
Property Transmission and Household Developmental Cycle. Continuity and Change. The Case of a Czech Village in Bulgaria (1900–1950)

Summary/Abstract: The text analyses property transmission, household developmental cycle and intra-familiar relationships in Vojvodovo, a Czech village in Bulgaria, in the period 1900–1950. Vojvodovo Czechs were Evangelics whose forefathers left the Czech lands in the 1820s to settle in Banat and moved to Bulgaria in 1900. They were attached to land and agriculture, but yet had to deal with changing political, economic and cultural environments. The text focusses on the relative impact of cultural continuity vs. adaptation in the area of inheritance and family relationships. It is argued that from the point of view of the developmental cycle it is difficult to place Vojvodovo ethnographic material unequivocally into the wider classifications of the European family. The case of Vojvodovo also illuminates some methodological difficulties resulting from the differences in using historical and social anthropological methods.

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