Фолклорните архивни фондове към читалищата
Folklore Archive Funds at the Community Centers (Chitalishta)

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the work in the final stage of the project “New Life for the Old Tradition in the Valley of Mesta”, connected to archiving the collected folklore material in the villages of Garmen, Dabnitsa, Koprivlen and Pletena. The folklore materials were arranged and classified according to already confirmed rules for the conservation of folklore culture and in a manner, which would facilitate their use in the future. In the arrangement of the materials we applied the principles of archiving, accepted at the National Center for Collection and Preservation of Bulgarian Folklore at the Institute of Folklore at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The main subjects in the archival funds of the four villages were unified. The documented material was arranged in three rubrics: history, ritual culture and folklore. This most general division is conventional. It was imposed by the subject matter of the field materials and by their still limited quality, which does not make it possible to follow strictly the developed scheme of the National Center. The article includes an appendix with the contents of the archived materials in the village of Dabnitsa.

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