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Northwest Balkans, whose major part of the population forwed by South Slavs, were Slavicised by the slavic migrations that had begin in 6th century in a period of two hundred years. In the wake of conquest of region in 15th century, unlike the other slavic groups, Islamic Slavs have entered a new political and ethnic formation based on Turkish culture and Islamic faith. From Literature to folklore and from architecture to music, the source of new civilization was that Turkish culture and Islamic faith. Muslim Slavs; lived in that region in other words Bosniaks, development of verbal culture products in the context of creative and execution, came true in a peculiar way differently and independently from the other Slavic groups. Under the different purposes many European and American researches visited the region and reconded the products of oral culture and some of them examined and evaluated those materials in the light of scientific methods. Oral culture products belonging to the South Slavs were also recorded in the context of European cultural conventions. This study inform the sources of Bosniaks vernacular products based on Turkish and İslamic orient and also enlighten the recording style in a systematic way and with certain methods.
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Today, when we talk about Hungarians living in the USA, only a few of us know that Hungarian culture has been blossoming for more than half century not only on the east and west coast, but also in the middle of the country. Tiny communities in the Wild West with their truly important and unquestionably Hungarian history – belong to our collective national memory. This present work focused on the past and the present of Colorado Hungarians, and is based on historical sources, documents and more than sixty oral life-interviews. Participating in the Kőrösi Csoma Sándor Program I had the opportunity to meet Hungarians who had to flee their homeland due to the storms of history, never forgetting where they had come from. Their memories also show us how the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 is remembered by them. Through publishing their stories about struggle, patriotism and success (like those of Ilona of Hungary, Molnar Ski, and other famous companies founded by Hungarians) and showing the present life of the younger generation, their cultural programs and events, this work highlights the importance of learning about this forgotten part of our common history, as a bridge can be built between Hungarians and Hungarians beyond the sea.
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I spent a year in the Hungarian community of São Paulo in 2014–2015. During this time I could get to know the Hungarian people in the Casa Húngara and Associação Húngara de São Paulo. My work was really varied, so I could obtain detailed information about their identity and culture. At the same time I tried to research the Brazilian-Hungarian colony from a cultural anthropology perspective. Some rich literature exists which helped me to reconstruct the details of the past in addition to interviews. Also, I had the chance to survey many documents from the Igreja Cristã Reformada Húngara do Brasil. Previously these documents were not open access. So I would search answers about how they could preserve their Hungarian identity in São Paulo from the beginning to the present. In my article I have focused on major aid, education and religious organisations. This does not mean that the others are not important! At the same time I am very interested in how the young people think about the future of the colony. I think today this is the most important question.
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The paper deals with the migrations of the Armenian diaspora in the 19-20th centuries and particularly with the collective memory of migration, reflected in an unpublished manuscript of Dr. Magardich Melkonyan of Bourgas. It was completed in 1989, preserved in a private archive, and provided to the authors by his heirs.The aims of the paper are: to analyze the types of migrations of several Armenian clans from the Asia Minor and the Eastern Thrace to Bulgaria; to study migrants’ integration strategies; to analyze clan’s collective memory, construction of the historical narrative of migration, its oral and written transmission through the generations, and methods of preservation of ethnic identity.The paper uses an interdisciplinary approach based on genealogy, prosopography, microhistory, social history, social demography, diasporic studies and research on memory studies. The methodology includes content analysis, prosopographical analysis, socio-demographic analysis and genealogy analysis of the manuscript. Its content is supplemented by an interview with one of the heirs of the family.
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The article examines the events about the unification of the R of Macedonia achieved not through war but peaceful means. The processes, for recognizing the young state by the European community, the negotiations with Greece, Brussels interference, are followed through
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The reason for this article is the millennial anniversary of the Holy Martyr John Vladimir’s death and the activities of Amphilochius, Archbishop of Cetinje, as a representative of the Serbian Orthodox Church on the territory of Montenegro. The diplomacy of the Montenegrin bishop and his personal prestige made possible the implementation of large-scale projects for restoration of the Orthodox churches on the territory of Montenegro and today’s independent Republic of Kosovo. The problem of the origin, the place of the assassination and the burial of Duklja’s prince, St. John Vladimir, is located on the territory of three countries – Macedonia, Albania and Montenegro. Today, folklore legends and the practice of pilgrimage to the relics are still preserved in the first two countries. In Montenegro, incrusted in a bigger cross, is the “Miraculous Cross” of the prince which he held in his hands while being slain. Every year a procession with the cross is held which ascends the Rumija Mountains on the feast of the Holy Trinity – to the top of a ridge where, according to the legend, once there was a church destroyed by the Turks. The aim of the article is to examine the local cult of the prince-martyr in Southern Montenegro and the new sacred topoi proceeding from the reconstruction of the memory of him: the Holy Trinity Church in the Rumija Mountains and the newly-built Church of St. John Vladimir in Bar.
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The article deals with a research topic unexplored in the Bulgarian ethnological discourse – the distribution and specifics of Buddhism in Bulgaria. It aims at providing information about the penetration of Buddhism in the country and the state of Buddhist communities at present. Suggesting that Buddhism should be studied within the paradigm of the new spirituality/new religiousness, it attempts to view this specific worldview in the context of its global dissemination in the Western world. Due to the necessity of providing basic information on the topic, the article does not claim to give particular answers, but to raise questions regarding the functions and significance of Buddha’s teaching in the Bulgarian national culture. Keywords: Buddhism, global, new religious movements, Bulgaria
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It is not the facts of the life of a bright person that matter most for the successive generations.
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The first event continued the “Bulgarian uprisings” for political independency (statesmanship) from before 1878. The second one provided – again with respect to continuity – an Eastern Rumelian autonomy model and the example of the Unification to those parts of the ethnical territories remaining “under the yoke” of the Ottoman empire. There is no doubt that the rather dynamic and continuous military clash between Byzantium and the Bulgarian Tzardom from the 70’s of the 10th century until the end of the second decade of the 11th century still attracts and will attract scholarly attention. There is no doubt that the rather dynamic and continuous military clash between Byzantium and the Bulgarian Tzardom from the 70’s of the 10th century until the end of the second 48 Гл. ас. д-р Янко М. Христов decade of the 11th century still attracts and will attract scholarly attention
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The dates 20 and 21 June 2017 will remain forever remembered in the history of bilateral relations between the Republics of Bulgaria and Macedonia. These are the dates on which Skopje’s governmental delegation of Prime Minister Zaev paid an official visit to Sofia.
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Born to the famous poets Anna Akhmatova and Nikolay Gumilev, Lev Gumilev achieved fame in his own right, in the social sciences, as the creator of the innovative historiosophic concept called the theory of ethnogenesis. The original and controversial methodology adopted by him ensured that his entire scholarly output and legacy, both during his life and after his death, was subject to interpretation only on his own terms of reference.
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This article outlines the scientific problems with which Bulgarian ethnologists were occupied during the transitional years after 1989. The study of Bulgarians’ traditional culture continued and as a result were published in four volumes from the series ‘Regionalni etnolozhki izsledvania’ [Regional Ethnological Investigations], dedicated to the traditions of the inhabitants in the mountain regions of Strandzha, Rhodope, Sakar and Sredna Stara Planina [Middle Balkan]. Volumes from the series ‘Etnografski problemi na narodnata kultura’ [Ethnographic Problems of Folk Culture] were also regularly published in that period. Seven ethnographic conferences in various towns in the country were carried out. Special attention was paid to the different minorities with whom Bulgarians have traditionally lived – Gypsies, Armenians, Jews, Sarakatsani, Turks and Greeks. Many scientific investigations were dedicated to their traditional and contemporary culture and in the halls of the National Ethnographic Museum there were some respective exhibitions. Other spheres of ethnological research at that time included the study of urban culture, of migration processes in the country and abroad, and gender studies.
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The article compares the relations between Bulgarian and Western scholars in the late 19th and early 20th century and one hundred years later. The author's opinion is that the change in the research paradigm requiring the anthropologist to collect his/her own field materials makes Western scholars to deny the existence or to question the authenticity of their local colleagues regardless of the latter’s will to change. The author thinks that for more than a century local ethnology underwent evolution which made it useful for the present Bulgarian society in a way still inaccessible for anthropology.
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When interpreted through the memory prism, football offers rich information about the attitudes and the processes in the socium and thus offers fruitful grounds for an ethnological and anthropological study. This study is based on interviews and autobiographical narratives which are an important source for the personal and the family histories of the heirs of the footballers and the fans of the Pavlikeni team.The football memory which was formed reveals a state of desired timelessness which unites past and present. The leading version, which is exhibited in the museum on the occasion of every celebration of a particular event from the history of the team, helps to form the cultural memory of the local population. Thus there is a coherent narrative that remains in the memory of the local people and allows to construct the cultural memory of the community as a one which corresponds to the identity sought by the group.
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The article traces the regained popularity of a healing water source, promoted by the feigned healer and wonder worker Angelush. The activities of Angelush are connected with the appearance of the Great Comet, which was observed in Europe in 1861. Many newspapers from this period reflected the miracles and the impressive crowds of people that visited the healing water source in Northeast Bulgaria, near the Danube River. The present-day“intervention“ in media context seems to result from the need of shedding light on the visible traces of the “heroic time,“ which were pertinent due to the proximity with the anniversary of the April 1876 uprising and with the exploit of Hristo Botev’s troop and the use of “Radetzki“ steam boat in that year. The text analyzes a concrete case of inventing a tradition, which has appeared necessary for present-day political and social purposes. The significance of Angelushevo water source as a sacred place is construed entirely in media context, creating the myth that “Radetzki“ steam boat was built with the money earned from transporting visitors to the healing water source. In this case, the theme of the “heroic time,“ and the immediate relation with the national narrative were used to testify the significance of a religious site,the belief in which should have been sufficient justification of its existence. Thus, in 21st century we are witnessing how an increasing number of churches and monasteries in Bulgaria are construing their past through the links they establish with nationally significant topics,characters and images. They do so by emphasizing not that much the spiritual and religious aspects – as connected with faith or with sacred scriptures, but rather – with the presence of traces of heroic time, which inscribe the cult sites in the toponymic space of the nation.
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