„Ние сме гости на тази земя, на тоя свят, белия” (Образи на смъртта и отвъдното)
“We are Guests on the Earth and on This White World” (Images and Concepts of Death and World Beyond)

Summary/Abstract: The article presents images and concepts of death and the world beyond, as well as relevant ritual practices, found in the village of Galata, Teteven region – semi-mountainous village, densely populated by Bulgarian Muslims. The data concerns both personal and collective experience. Death is a fact, a case in individual or group existence, as well as a phenomenon, carrying out in itself collective images, concepts, symbols and meaning. Cultural, ideological and religious complexes are investigated in their “genre” aspects – rites, believes, narratives (personal and traditional), as well as thematically: lifetime and predicting death; dying; the dead and his soul; the world beyond; the dead among those still alive. Special attention is paid to the existence of syncretism, heterogeneity and changes in world views.

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