Oбществената баня като фактор за формиране на локална идентичност. XX – началото на XXI век (По примера на столичния квартал „Горна баня“)

Author(s): Stamen Kanev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2017

This article is part of ethnological research on the role and function of the public baths in the urban space. It was held in 2017 in the Gorna Banya district in Sofia. In this publication the public baths are seen as one of the markers that construct local identity. In the beginning of the 20th century, the old Ottoman baths were destroyed and new ones were built, which have been preserved to present day in the centre of Gorna banya. The baths are part of the everyday life of the local people. They use their resources for drinking, cooking, washing, but also for trade and medicinal purposes. Furthermore, they continue to observe some traditional family and calendar customs around the public baths.Although the doors of the baths are closed, the square in front of them continues to play a central role in public life. This is evidenced, on the one hand, by the annual celebrations, and on the other hand, by the ordinary people who organize gatherings in front of the public baths via Facebook. The public baths continue to be a central place around which life in the neighbouhood is organized. The local authorities are looking for different ways to fund the restoration of the old building.

Личното име и езика като културни маркери за (само)идентификация на поколението от смесени семейства

Author(s): Desislava Pileva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2017

This research deals with two topics concerning mixed parentage rearing practices in Bulgaria. On the one hand, it is the naming the offspring with regard to the name giver(s) and principles of name-choosing, deriving from parent(s)’ cultural heritage and affected (or not) by the living-in social environment. On the other hand, there is the matter of the non-Bulgarian language acquisition, whose development is a question of micro managing of each of the families (and in many cases of each of the partners). Parents’ decisions, regarding these topics, set the manner in which others look at the mixed offspring, as well as how the children accept themselves as bearers of two cultural backgrounds.

Дагнослав Демски, Лиизи Лайнесте, Камила Бараниецка-Олшевска. Войната е от значение. Конструиране на образите на Другия (30–50-те години на ХХ век). Будапеща, 2015

Author(s): Petia Bankova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2017

The Capital of the Past: St. Athanasius Monastery (Zlatna Livada Village, Chirpan Region) between Myth and History

Author(s): Evgenia Troeva / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2017

The present text is dedicated to a particular case from the last ten years when a meta narrativewas created, in this sense also a memory for the past, for St. Athanasius Monastery near the village of Zlatna Livada, a monastery proclaimed to be the oldest in Europe. Its founding is attributed to one of the key figures in the history of early Christianity, St. Athanasius, which gives the cloister a specific sacred nature. The subject of the study is indicative of the role that modern means of communication play in constructing popular ideas of the past.Thus, the ‘history’ of St. Athanasius Monastery becomes grounds for national pride and self-confidence; on the one hand, it symbolizes the ‘deep roots’ of the nation and on the other hand, it lends Bulgaria a greater symbolic significance in the context of a united Europe. The narrative of this Christian cloister’s ancient past proves to be a winning formula, since it focuses and expresses the hopes and aspirations of various social actors and circles, i.e. becomes part of several projects orientated to the future.

Aмериканската действителност в разказите на Светослав Минков от края на 20-те и началото на 30-те години на XX век

Author(s): Mariya Ruseva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2018

The paper is focused on the image of North America and the stereotypes about American reality that are represented and ironized in the short stories, written by the Bulgarian author Svetoslav Minkov and published in his books Shadow play (1928) Automatons (1932) and The lady with the X-Ray Eyes (1934)

Eтнографски източници в Научния архив на БАН – култура на паметта

Author(s): Gabriela Vaptzarova,Darina Ilieva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2017

The Scientific Archives of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences began its work with the foundation of the Bulgarian Literary Society in Braila in September 1869. Its task is to find, process and offer for use all the materials on the history of the scientific thought in Bulgaria and the history of the BAS. The Scientific Archive preserves the archival documents of the institutes of the BAS as well as the personal collections of academicians, corresponding members and professors; it does scientific and technical processing, estimates the value of the archival documents and restores them. The archive organizes the use of the archival documents for scientific research, reference and other purposes, prepares documentary publications and exhibitions of documents.The cultural heritage preserved in the BAS is a national treasure and we are responsible for its protection.This article examines only archival collections with ethnographic materials and researches. It is an invitation to researchers for future studies.

Един живот между две религии

Author(s): Ani Kisyova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2017

The family and the relations in it have always been in the focus of the social sciences and humanities. They attract particular interest in cases of mixed marriages between individuals from different confessional communities. The present study will pay attention to mixed marriages between Orthodox Christians and Jews. It is based on the history of a family from the city of Sofia, the attitude of the spouses towards religion and the impact of these relations on the children in the family in the 20th century.

Magdalena Lubanska. Muslims and Christians in the Bulgarian Rhodopеs. Studies on Religious (Anti)Syncretism. Warsaw-Berlin, 2015

Author(s): Yelis Erolova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2017

Встъпление

Author(s): Nikolai Vukov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2018

От съставителя

Author(s): Rayna Gavrilova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2018

Едно почти етнографско изследване на с. Байкалско, Радомирско (Подбран материал за издаване на алманах)

Author(s): Dimitar Dobrevski / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 17/2019

To write this material I was provoked by my love for the history and traditions of the place I have chosen to build a villa. For years, I have been gathering material from the stories of the local’s neighbors. Then I went through the existing scientific publications.

Kъм антропонимите в Етрополския поменик от ХVII век (За имената на поклонниците от село Добревци, Ловешко)

Author(s): Iliana Chekova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 18/2019

In the article are discussed anthroponyms of pilgrims from Dobrevtsi village, Teteven district, entered in the Etropole beadroll in 1648. For comparison of an earlier period are given names of people from the same village in the Ottoman registers of tax revenue from 1515 and 1584, allowing you to track certain features of the system names, ethnic, confessional and social composition of the population etc. Anthroponyms from the village are compared with those of the pilgrims from Etropole mentioned in the Etropole beadroll.

Partition, Violence and Humanism in Tabish Khair’s Filming

Author(s): Om Prakash Dwivedi / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

Tabish Khair’s novel, Filming (2007), highlights many deeply vexed issues that are central to any discussion on colonial/postcolonial humanism. The novel presents the film industry of Hindustan and the lives of people associated with this charismatic industry. It also deals with the maltreatment of women and the manner in which their voices are muffled by the male chauvinistic society, thus making them the subaltern that cannot speak, or if they do manage to speak, they are brusquely silenced, because it questions the authority of those in power, and concomitantly tries to reroute the established power relations, and hence these voices and demands are to be viewed as something that deserves immediate disapproval and censorship.

Ежегодни Кюстендилски четения 2016 г.

Author(s): Albena Simova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2016

Annual Kyustendil Readings 2016

Градове, маскаради, идентичности (По примери от Унгария)

Author(s): Veneta Yankova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2019

The text analyzes specific examples from the festive life of the Hungarian cities of Mohács and Debrecen and in particular different manifestations of the contemporary masquerade game. The author pays attention to the construction of urban identity (part A) and searches for basic characteristics of the urban cultural space as a place of national memory (part B). The field research method is applied for the purposes of the present study. In conclusion it is noted that it is especially important for the participants to identify with a particular masquerade community that builds additional social networks outside of the carnival chronotope. The consistency with the culture and traditions of the city is also significant as far as these are manifestations of urban identity. The national identity finds expression in symbols and signs of the national manifested under conditions of deterritorialization. Through the self-perception of the people in the city (as people tied to it and belonging to it) and through their identification with it, the urban social space acquires its anthropological dimensions contributing to its unique spirit and particularity (genius loci).

Междувоенна България в изображения. Диагностично проучване по история и цивилизация в VI клас

Author(s): Maria Nikolova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6/2015

The article presents the results of а didactic diagnostic test which was conducted among students of VI degree in 138. „Prof. Vassil Zlatarski“ School. The results of the diagnostic study reveal the students’ abilities to work with images, such as explaining the causes and consequences of historical events, comparing images and compilation of short text answers.

Годишно съдържание

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Issue: 6/2015

Мегданът на българските емигранти

Author(s): Julia Popcheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2020

With its fifth edition in 2019, the festival ‘Na Megdana na Drugata Bulgaria’ (At the Public Square and Gathering Point of the Other Bulgaria) establishes itself as one of the main events for Bulgarian emigrants in Europe. It gathers folklore enthusiasts and besides a dancing stage, it is a ground for new friendships, meetings, and exchange of expertise. The article examines the festival as a place of contact of informal migration-based groups of interest and as a trigger for developing an imagined community around symbols such as origin, clothes, music, dance and food. The ‘megdan’ is considered a community centre existing mainly in people’s mind but not as a geographic location. The article searches for the link between the event and the ways of preserving and transmitting cultural heritage in migration. The study was conducted in three stages: a preliminary online survey; fieldwork in the period May 10 – 12, 2019 in La Nucia, Spain; an additional digital data gathering.

Потопено наследство: за песните от дъното на язовира и медийното им изплуване

Author(s): Ventsislav Dimov,Lozanka Peycheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 8/2020

The study focuses on part of the submerged heritage under the waters of several dams in Bulgaria (Ovcharitsa, Rozov Kladenets and Tsonevo). Popular folk singers (Stefka Sabotinova and Penka Pavlova) and singing groups and local singers („Sminana Kitka“, Silvia Dimitrova), who keep songs from the sunken villages, are presented. The focus is on research and knowledge of folklore as a pillar of memory, in the case of the village of Asparuhovo, near and under the waters of Tsonevo Dam. Emphasis is placed on the role of various media and especially digital new media spaces for the „emergence” of the traditional song heritage from the villages left at the bottom of various dams.

Нарастващата роля на електронните медии за медийната грамотност на публиката в епохата на информационната криза

Author(s): Iglika Ivanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 8/2020

Two decades after the publication of the Green Paper on the convergence (1997), radio and television are not only creating and disseminating more and more digital content through digital technologies but are striving for an increasingly integrated online presence. Along with search engines, internet platforms have become an important intermediary between media service providers and audiences whose habits have changed dramatically in the second decade of the 21st century. Broadcast media (BM) have no choice but to be where the users of media content are - content of different quality, origin, purpose, logic of distribution. At the same time, audiences are overwhelmed with mis- and disinformation, which often comes from fake pages and profiles posing as legitimate media organizations, and set against trustworthy media and journalists from public figures. This creates an information crisis, which can be counteracted both by legislative measures and by empowering the audience with media literacy. And while the implementation of educational reform is a slow process, the BM, which still have the largest audiences and are most trusted, can play an essential role in increasing the media literacy of citizens. A function of great public importance, at the same time entirely in their interest.