Национална политика и фолклоризъм (Към механизмите за функциониране на българо-чешките фолклористични контакти през 60-те и 70-те г. на XIX г.)
National Politics and Folklorism (Towards the Functional Mechanisms of the Bulgarian-Czech Folkloristic Contacts in the 60’s and the 70’s of the...

Summary/Abstract: The author represents a new view on the history of folkloristic contacts between Czechs and Bulgarians in the decades before the Liberation of Bulgaria (1878). Analyzing the opposition between some of their semiotic characteristics and the semiotic characteristics of folklorism in regard with the scheme: essence – subject – method – cause, the author claims that the functional mechanisms of the folkloristic contacts under study reflect in the complex of processes and phenomena which is generally called “folklorism”. The analysis follows the routine of putting together public interest and attitude, agents’ characteristics, functional innovations, the principle of unification, institutionalization of forms and activities, the role of the mass media. On that base the author draws the conclusion that the main locomotives of the Bulgarian-Czech folkloristic contacts during the 60’s and the 70’s of the last century which had taken the form of invasion of Bulgarian folklore facts in Czech culture, are the national movements of both nations, which political character is out of question. And, having in mind the definition of political folklorism which “uses folklore either consciously or unconsciously for direct or hidden political purposes” – we can insist on calling this category a helpful variant for the description of processes and phenomena under study.

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