Идеята на автаркия от домашната икономика в глобалния капитализъм: антропологически рефлексии

Author(s): Miladina Monova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2023

Self-sufficiency as the idea of autarky and self-reliance is a growing topic in crises time, especially since the COVID-19 pandemic. Leaving aside debates on the possibilities of a new global order, this text explores self-sufficiency as a value and practice “always there”, as generations of anthropologists have shown in their work on the household as an economic institution. Several key authors examining dialectics between mutuality and market realms are considered, with a focus on the way in which these contradictory logics play in families' strategies of making a living. Dynamics of process and change are evoked through case studies on Macedonia and the major contributions of two little-known authors – J. Obrębski (1930s) and D. Rhubottom(1960s). I argue that while markets tend to colonise the territory of communal economy, autarky, as a certain idea of autonomy, remains powerful.

Поминък и изграждане на социални солидарности. По примера на розопроизводството в района на град Шипка

Author(s): Ilia Iliev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2023

The article examines the role of rose production in building social ties in a small Bulgarian village. I argue that the specificity of rose production, namely the need to mobilize a lot of labour in a short time, leads to the construction of a system of exchange of services and lasting mutual dependencies between people of different generations, classes and ethnic groups in the region.

Folkloric Elements in 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑃𝑜𝑏𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑚: 𝐴 𝑆𝑙𝑎𝑣 𝑁𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑙

Author(s): Saša Simović / Language(s): English,Serbian Issue: 1/2023

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑃𝑜𝑏𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑚: 𝐴 𝑆𝑙𝑎𝑣 𝑁𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑙 by P. Jones, published in 1895 and dedicated to “His Highness, Prince Nicholas of Montenegro,” is an intriguing piece of literature, even though little is known about either the author or the book. With an intricate plot comprising multiple framed stories and presented by an omniscient narrator, the text centres on the exploits of two “blood brothers” and is of modest literary merit. However, it vividly portrays traditional values, customs, national costumes, places, superstitions, and has a distinct local feel. This article aims to identify and analyse the key folkloric elements present in 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑃𝑜𝑏𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑚: 𝐴 𝑆𝑙𝑎𝑣 𝑁𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑙 and to provide a commentary on the novel from the perspective of cultural history.

Българският фолклор в читанките за първи и втори клас

Author(s): Anna Georgieva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2024

The article presents part of the results of a research activity carried out under the project “SUMMIT – Research, testing and analysis of the implementation of innovative approaches in the education of students and pupils from 1st to 4th grades – Part I”. The goal is for students to be prepared methodically and correctly to develop the topics related to studying/teaching works from Bulgarian folklore, included in the 27 alternative reading books from first to fourth grade, through which the “Literary Education” component is realized. Tables No. to No. 14 show the number and titles of texts from Bulgarian (and foreign) folklore that are included in the analyzed 15 reading books for first and second grade. The relative share of works from Bulgarian folklore, compared to the total number of studied works, as well as texts that are present in more than one reading book, is highlighted.

In memoriam Албена Георгиева

Author(s): Angelina Ilieva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 48/2024

In memoriam Магдалена Елчинова

Author(s): Irena Bokova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 48/2024

Митове. Фолклор. Етноси. Сборник в памет на проф. дфн Евгения Мицева.

Author(s): Katya Mihailova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 48/2024

Аспекти от демографската характеристика на българите в Бесарабия през 30-те години на ХХ век

Author(s): Inna Manasieva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2023

After the collapse of the Russian Empire at the end of the First World War and the accession of Bessarabia to the Kingdom of Romania, a large Bulgarian population found itself within the borders of this country. The census of the population in the Kingdom held on December 29, 1930 allows to trace certain aspects of the demographic development of the Bulgarians in Bessarabia. This article focuses on the quantitative growth of the Bulgarian population, the territorial distribution of Bulgarian communities and the level of urbanization of the Bulgarians.

Българите в контекста на миграционните процеси в Северна Таврия през 1860 – 1863 г..

Author(s): Sergej Pachev,Valentina Pacheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2023

The article is dedicated to the resettlement of Bulgarians from Southern Bessarabia and Northwestern Bulgaria to Northern Azov (Northern Tavria) in 1861–1862 as an integral part of a broad multinational and multi-vector migration process in this region. The place of the Bulgarian element in the context of this complex migration process is outlined. A conclusion is made that as a result of this migration process a separate group of the Bulgarian Diaspora was formed – the so-called “Taurid Bulgarians”

Женското облекло на българите в селищата Кортен и Твардица, Р. Молдова (краят на ХIX – началото на ХХ век).

Author(s): Natalia Darmancheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2023

This text presents the women’s clothes of the Bulgarians in the settlements of Korten and Tvarditsa in Moldova in the period between the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. Two museum collections from the museums in the village of Korten and the town of Tvarditsa in Moldova are analyzed. In this study, the author seeks to answer the question of what did the Bulgarian women dress at that time and how did they do it. The reconstruction and interpretation of the data include the form, the structure and the terminology of clothing, as well as its constituent parts. The comparative-historical and systemic-structural analysis is applied, which allow to clearly reconstruct the idea of clothing of women from the Bulgarian settlements of Korten and Tvardica in Moldova on the boundary between the two centuries.Bulgarian women’s clothes in the settlements of Korten and Tvarditsa in Moldova

Из архивното наследство на Райна Кацарова: следи от присъствието на таврийски българи в България.

Author(s): Galin Georgiev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2023

In my previous announcements and publications, I have already paid attention to the expedition of the famous Bulgarian folklorist Rayna Katsarova in Dobrudza in the summer of 1944. The expedition is more deeply analysed in this article, the particular occasion being that after the finding of the file with the report by Rayna Katsarova about this travelling, I was happy to find her fieldwork records done in several living settings in Northeast Bulgaria: Balchik, Lyulyakovo, Dobrevo, etc. Their data is preserved in the Musical Folklore Archive of the Institute of Art Studies at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. A specific focus of Rayna Katsarova’s expedition in Dobrudza is the Bulgarian newcomers from Tavria (region which at that time was situated in the Ukrainian SSR), who bear specific vernacular, traditions and folklore. Our big folklorist did not know at the time being that just in several months they would leave their metropolis. In about 2000 Tavrian Bulgarians were deported back to the USSR. In their turn, the Tavrian Bulgarians in Dobrudza did not know that the meetings with a scholar like Rayna Katsarova were a unique chance to leave to the next generation a record of a small part of their cultural memory, rites and musical folklore as a document for the development of their culture and ethnic identity in the conditions of the Second World War.

Анатол Анчев. Превъплъщения (Притчи за изначалото). София: Издателска къща „Тип-топ прес“, 2022

Author(s): Angelina Ilieva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2023

Book review

Проф. д.ф.н. Албена Георгиева-Ангелова (1954–2024)

Author(s): Mariyanka Borisova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2024

In memoriam

Проф. д-р Магдалена Елчинова (1962–2024)

Author(s): Valentina Ganeva-Raycheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2024

In memoriam

THE MAMO WEBINAR CYCLE: PROGRAMME AND ABSTRACTS

Author(s): Federica Pompejano / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2021

The webinar cycle Materializing-Modernity: Landscape, Architecture and Anthropology Intersections in 20th Century Rurality1 was organized and implemented from April 12, 2021, to May 6, 2021. It has been realized and implemented within the framework of the EU-funded project Materializing Modernity – Socialist and Post-socialist Rural Legacy in Contemporary Albania (MaMo), by Federica Pompejano (MSCA-IF Researcher, Academy of Albanian Studies), the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Art Studies (IAKSA), the Department of Cultural Heritage and Environment and the Laboratory of Ethnomusicology and Visual Anthropology (LEAV) of the University of Milan (UNIMI), Milan, Italy. The MaMo Webinar Cycle was part of a project that received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 896925. The following pages contain the programme of the MaMo Webinar Cycle and the abstracts (in English and Albanian languages) of each oral presentation in order to give a more complete and a better understanding of the topics covered during the implementation of the webinar.

Социализация и ресоциализация на „дивите“ деца (върху примери от фолклорни и литературни произведения)

Author(s): Daniel Polihronov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2024

The article interprets the problem of socialisation and resocialisation of “feral” children on the example of real-life stories, folklore and literary works. A pedagogical commentary is made on trends, causes and results, as well as on educational and methodical approaches to the inclusion of children raised by animals in the wild.

Solar Deity in Japanese Mythology

Author(s): Danijela Vasić / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2024

In order to create an orderly state, the first imperial chronicles emerged in the early 8th century in the territory of modern Japan through the integration and systematization of mythical elements that proved the legitimacy of the government and the descent of the imperial Yamato lineage from the supreme deity of the Shinto pantheon - the Great Sun Goddess Amaterasu. This mythic paradigm was created on the existing mytho-historical foundations fostered by cultural and political contacts with the Korean kingdoms and the Chinese empire. There is evidence that the cult of the solar deity, originally portrayed as a male principle, originated in a corpus outside the Yamato mythological system. And since male-female pairs of rulers were common (first it was the gods, later the ruler and the shamaness), it is possible that at some point the distinction between the sexes was blurred and then the female side prevailed. However, the female ancestral deity does not indicate a period of matriarchy. This symbolic type of goddess, who initiates a patrimonial lineage with rare female exceptions, was created by members of a privileged group of powerful men to legitimize their own power structures. Moreover, the cult of the mother goddess is not limited to the solar principle, but is associated with weaving, silk production, and agriculture. Thus, the simple assertion that the Yamato imperial lineage descended from the goddess Amaterasu raises numerous questions and doubts, which this essay attempts to answer.

Memories of Joy for a Futureless World: Aesthetic and Political Commitment in Jasieński and Pasolini

Author(s): Krzysztof Rowiński / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2024

Discussions of cultural disappearance are often couched in terms of nostalgia and tragedy. Bruno Jasieński in Bal manekinów and Pier Paolo Pasolini in Ragazzi di vita offer an alternative form of remembering disappearance through memories of joy, understood as a distinctly political practice. Acutely aware of the untenability of what they were celebrating (pockets of liberty from cultural uniformity, in local cultures and aesthetic experimentation, respectively), both writers maintained a sense of political commitment, offering a good broader model for thinking about a world without a future.

Из архивното наследство на Райна Кацарова: следи от присъствието на таврийски българи в България. Част втора: една от записаните песни и вариантите й в хронологичен, селищен обреден контекст

Author(s): Galin Georgiev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2024

In previous academic publications, I have already turned my attention to the expedition carried out by the famous Bulgarian folklorist Rayna Katsarova in Dobrudzha in the summer of 1944. This endeavor of hers was also the subject of deeper interest in my text from the last issue of the journal “Bulgarian Ethnology“, the continuation of which is the present article. The specific reason for the research is the fact that some time after finding the file with the reportfrom R. Katsarova’s fieldwork trip in the archive of IEFSEM-BAS, I was able to familiarize myself with her recordings, made in several settlements in North-Eastern Bulgaria. These transcripts are stored in today’s Musical the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The specific reason for the research is the fact that sometime after finding the file with the report from R. Katsarova’s fieldwork trip in the archive of IEFSEM-BAS, I was able to familiarize myself endeavour of hers was also the subject of a deeper interest in my text from the last issue of One of the highlights of R. Katsarova’s expedition to Dobrudzha were the Bulgarians who moved from the Tavria region in 1943 (then in the Ukrainian SSR), bringing with them a specific language, traditions and folklore. Our great folklorist did not know that after a few months these people would not remain in their ancestral homeland and that, unlike the Jews in Bulgaria, the state would not be able to save them. About 2,000 Tavrian Bulgarians were deported back to the USSR, a part of them were killed along the way, others were repressed and thrown into the prisons of Central Asia. There is no way that the Tavrians themselves knew that their meetings with an academic like R. Katsarova were a unique chance to pass on to the next generations, through her, pieces of their cultural memory, of their customs and musical folklore, which will remain as a document for the development of their ethno-cultural traditions and identity and in the conditions of the Second World War. In the present second part of the study, the archival materials of R. Katsarova from1944 will be presented in a more detailed manner, both in terms of their content and type, and in relation to earlier and later records of other researchers among the Bulgarians from the historical and cultural regions of Tavria and Bessarabia.

Галин Георгиев. Традиции, памет, идентичност на българите в Украйна и Молдова – динамика на културата в диаспората, 2020.

Author(s): Sonya Sredkova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2024