Разказвачът като посредник (Върху пример от с. Галата, Тетевенско)
The Narrator as a Mediator (On an Example from the Village of Galata, Teteven Region)

Summary/Abstract: Narrator is a social role, which accomplishes mediation and dialogue between cultural variants and identities. In traditional societies and local communities this process goes mostly orally and follows certain rules. Concepts like social nets and channels are useful for defining the place of the narrator in the community. Usually the narrator disposes of a well-developed structure of social nets and participates in a "multi-channel" (multiconduit) exchange of narratives. His activity bears the signs of mediation: it facilitates and legitimates transitions, takes part in processes of enculturation, socialization and aculturation, in constructing personality, etc. Within this framework the author presents observations on the personality, repertory, narrative strategy and practice of Mahmud P. - born in 1916, Bulgarian Muslim (pomak) from the village of Galata, Teteven region. She analyses data, extracted from free interviews in 1995-1999 about the narrator's life-course and his repertory, about the narrative genres and subjects, and the way in which they are generated and connected in discourse.

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