Етнографската наука в България пред сериозни задачи
Ethnography in Bulgaria Faced by Serious Tasks

Summary/Abstract: In comparison with other countries, prior to the victory of the socialist revolution, ethnography developed in a most disorganized way in Bulgaria, being the work of individual talented research workers. Only when the Ethnographic Institute with its Museum at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences was founded was this science placed on sound scholarly and organizational foundations, and began to mark an important development. However,, the stage of the direct building up of a sound socialist society, mapped out by the Tenth Congress of the Bulgarian Communist Party, the intensified role of social sciences, emphasized in the decision of the Plenary Session on ideological work in February, 1974, placed new and still more serious tasks before Bulgarian ethnography. In the new stage the theoretical level of ethnographic research is to be raised, theoretical ethnographic thought is to develop, and a turn-round is to be made in the ethnographic studies of the contemporary scene, direct assistance being given to the Party and State bodies in solving the tasks of culture and the way of life. In the sphere of traditional or historical ethnography, it has become imperrative to write and publish synthesizing and generalizing works, to extend problematics, to begin the study of general ethnography or the ethnography of other peoples, to intensify the development of the intermediary ethnographic sciences, further to strengthen international relations, and to improve the teaching of ethnography in Sofia and Turnovo Universities, etc.

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