Преосмисляне и предоговаряне на общностна идентичност. Случаят Пчеларово
Rethinking and renegotiating communal identity. The case of Pchelarovo

Author(s): Maria Kisikova
Subject(s): Anthropology, Social Sciences, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure
Published by: Пловдивски университет »Паисий Хилендарски«
Keywords: memory; heritage; village; folklore; sacred
Summary/Abstract: Pchelarovo, a ‘purely’ Bulgarian village in the Rhodopes, near Kardjali, seems a ‘typical’ case of a fading village where places and institutions are devoid of meaning and the cultural riches (in the deteriorating museum) have lost their value. The transformations taking place in villages during the so-called Transition, proceed in Pchelarovo through the need for the past to be rethought and for the community to be reconfigured. Starting from such assumptions, I seek, in different manifestations of the social, signs of renegotiation of meanings, rethinking of the past, discovering heirs and reaffirmation of the community. In the processes so presented, certain elements of memory and the past can stay under the veil of forgettance (in the crumbling museum) while certain people and institutions carry the momentum of transformation, undertaking initiatives of rethinking, renegotiation and entering into inheritance.

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