Oбществената баня като фактор за формиране на локална идентичност. XX – началото на XXI век (По примера на столичния квартал „Горна баня“)

Author(s): Stamen Kanev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2017

This article is part of ethnological research on the role and function of the public baths in the urban space. It was held in 2017 in the Gorna Banya district in Sofia. In this publication the public baths are seen as one of the markers that construct local identity. In the beginning of the 20th century, the old Ottoman baths were destroyed and new ones were built, which have been preserved to present day in the centre of Gorna banya. The baths are part of the everyday life of the local people. They use their resources for drinking, cooking, washing, but also for trade and medicinal purposes. Furthermore, they continue to observe some traditional family and calendar customs around the public baths.Although the doors of the baths are closed, the square in front of them continues to play a central role in public life. This is evidenced, on the one hand, by the annual celebrations, and on the other hand, by the ordinary people who organize gatherings in front of the public baths via Facebook. The public baths continue to be a central place around which life in the neighbouhood is organized. The local authorities are looking for different ways to fund the restoration of the old building.

The Capital of the Past: St. Athanasius Monastery (Zlatna Livada Village, Chirpan Region) between Myth and History

Author(s): Evgenia Troeva / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2017

The present text is dedicated to a particular case from the last ten years when a meta narrativewas created, in this sense also a memory for the past, for St. Athanasius Monastery near the village of Zlatna Livada, a monastery proclaimed to be the oldest in Europe. Its founding is attributed to one of the key figures in the history of early Christianity, St. Athanasius, which gives the cloister a specific sacred nature. The subject of the study is indicative of the role that modern means of communication play in constructing popular ideas of the past.Thus, the ‘history’ of St. Athanasius Monastery becomes grounds for national pride and self-confidence; on the one hand, it symbolizes the ‘deep roots’ of the nation and on the other hand, it lends Bulgaria a greater symbolic significance in the context of a united Europe. The narrative of this Christian cloister’s ancient past proves to be a winning formula, since it focuses and expresses the hopes and aspirations of various social actors and circles, i.e. becomes part of several projects orientated to the future.

България и полската външна политика (1918 – 1939). Геополитика и дип­ломация

Author(s): Marek Kornat / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6/2018

The study is devoted to Bulgaria’s role in the principal conceptions of Polish foreign policy between thetwo great wars. Both states functioned in a radically different geopolitical constellation of powers, however they had one similarity. Poland belonged to the major European beneficiaries of the World War I, because due to this conflict itregainedits independence after along period of partitions. Bulgaria lost the First World War. The country had to conclude a very uncomfortable peace treaty of Neuilly-sur-Seine. But both states were in conflict with themajority of their neighbors. A unique perspective for Polish-Bulgarian cooperation was possible in the framework of thePolish conception of “Intermarium” Bloc. Unfortunately, this vision appeared only as a theory.

Полша и Украинската народна република в периода 1919 – 1920

Author(s): Mirosław Szumiło / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6/2018

The common enemy of the reborn Poland and the Ukrainian People’s Republic was Bolshevik Russia. On the initiative of the leaders of both countries: Józef Piłsudski and Symon Petlura, an alliance agreement was signed between Poland and the Ukrainian People’s Republic on 22 April 1920. Piłsudski treated cooperation with Ukraine as a key element of his broader plan to rebuild eastern Europe. The result of the concluded alliance was the participation of the Ukrainian army in defense of Poland against the Bolshevik invasion in the summer of 1920. However, the great military victory was largely wasted politically because no Ukrainian state was established. The Treaty of Riga, signed on March 18, 1921, signified de facto defeat of Piłsudski’s plans.

‘The International of the Conquered’– The Promethean Movement and Polish Authorities during 1926 – 1939

Author(s): Paweł Libera / Language(s): English Issue: 6/2018

“Prometheanism” meant the political cooperation of interwar Poland with non-Russian peoples and nations in Russia directed against the tsarist, and later the Soviet empire. The Promethean movement included representatives of Ukraine (Ukrainian People’s Republic – UNR), Caucasus (Georgia, Azerbaijan, Mountaineers of the Northern Caucasus), Crimean and Volga Tatars, Turkestan and nations inhabiting Finland (Ingria, Komi, Karelia), as well as a part of the Don, Kuban and Terek Cossacks. This article focuses on the relations between the Polish side and individual nations and structures of the Promethean front, on those turning moments in its development, as well as on the political and organisational evolution of the Promethean movement.

Проблемът свое – чуждо и моделът на българския книжовен език през Възраждането

Author(s): Tatyana Aleksandrova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6/2018

The article focuses on the relationship between the model in which the Bulgarian literary language is formed during the Revival period and the own - foreign opposition. It analyzes those cultural and historical prerequisites, which determine the specifics of the own – foreign opposition in the field of the literary language and explain the tolerance towards the foreign influences related to the orientation of our society towards European cultural models. The character of Bulgarian Purification is analyzed.

Градинарството в едно планинско село през 40-те и 50-те години на ХХ век: социални аспекти

Author(s): Yana Yancheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2018

The paper deals with practices of vegetable gardening in the village of Mezdreya, Northwestern Bulgaria, before collectivization in 1958. The main question is how gardening affects social relations and, conversely, how getting into particular social relationships “makes” the garden. The interrelation between the plant world in gardens, the gardening practices, the economic interests of families, the social relations within and between families, people’s lifestyle, etc. have been studied. The article presents the interactions between families in the process of growing vegetables in irrigated gardens and in seed exchange, the association between neighbours and collective work in common benefit, the distribution of labour activities in the family by sex and age.

От съставителя

Author(s): Rayna Gavrilova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2018

Предпоставки за възникването и фактори за дейността на предприемаческия елит през епохата на Българското възраждане (начални бележки)

Author(s): Ivaylo Naydenov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2019

This paper presents an unknown photograph from the time immediately after the Liberation of Bulgaria. It depicts a collective portrait of the members of the European Commission for the organization of Eastern Roumelia. The photo document is created outside a studio in a natural environment and could be defined as one of the early examples of reportage photography on socio-politicalaffairs that took place on the Bulgarian lands.

Книги 2018–2019

Author(s): Emiliya Voleva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 38/2019

Selected bibliography in the field of Bulgarian Studies published in the current year

Пътеводител на антропологическия стопаджия

Author(s): Zhana Popova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2019

A review of Ivaylo Dichev’s book „Cultural scenes of the political”

Читалището: трансмисия, единение, институция…

Author(s): Mila Santova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2019

Asserting for decades on end its status of a focal point of the (social and) cultural life of (predominantly small) communities, the institution of the Bulgarian chitalishte in its more than a century existence has gradually but firmly accepted and realized its functions related to the transmission of the local culture. The text develops the discourse about the chitalishte as “memory” as well as a a “generator” of local culture, closely related to its institutional status based on community unification.

Between the Visible and the Invisible: The Intangible Cultural Heritage and the Museum. Editors: Mila Santova (lead editor), Iveta Todorova-Pirgova, Mirena Staneva. Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Publishing House of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2018

Author(s): Elya Tsaneva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2019

Book review

Дилемата „Аз съм българче?!“ Добрите педагогически практики при възпитаване на патриотичното чувство у децата, родени в чужбина

Author(s): Diana Verter / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2016

The article highlights the main difficulties and problems that Bulgarian teachers face abroad, particularly in the US, in bringing up patriotic feelings in children born and growing outside of Bulgaria. Also, the author shares her good pedagogical practices that she apply in one of the biggest Bulgarian schools in Chicago, USA to deal with the difficult task to teach their students to care about Bulgaria.

Едно почти етнографско изследване на с. Байкалско, Радомирско (Подбран материал за издаване на алманах)

Author(s): Dimitar Dobrevski / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 17/2019

To write this material I was provoked by my love for the history and traditions of the place I have chosen to build a villa. For years, I have been gathering material from the stories of the local’s neighbors. Then I went through the existing scientific publications.

Kъм антропонимите в Етрополския поменик от ХVII век (За имената на поклонниците от село Добревци, Ловешко)

Author(s): Iliana Chekova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 18/2019

In the article are discussed anthroponyms of pilgrims from Dobrevtsi village, Teteven district, entered in the Etropole beadroll in 1648. For comparison of an earlier period are given names of people from the same village in the Ottoman registers of tax revenue from 1515 and 1584, allowing you to track certain features of the system names, ethnic, confessional and social composition of the population etc. Anthroponyms from the village are compared with those of the pilgrims from Etropole mentioned in the Etropole beadroll.

Legislative Interventions into the Creation of Local Political Elites as an Instrument of Anti-Jewish Policy during the Holocaust (A Comparative View)

Author(s): Zuzana Tokárová / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2019

The extension of totalitarian and authoritarian regimes in the first half of the twentieth century, which hit most European states, required political interferences within the highest legislative and executive authorities of states as well as in local administrations and bodies of self-government. Legislative interventions resulted in the formation of new local political elites whose representatives, mostly recruited by the criterion of political reliability, held the defining positions and played the significant role in implementing anti-Jewish policy during the Holocaust era. The main aim of this contribution is the analysis of the mechanisms of legislative interventions into the creation of new local political elites in selected examples of Nazi-occupied countries (General Government, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia) and allied regimes (Slovak State and Hungary).

Ежегодни Кюстендилски четения 2016 г.

Author(s): Albena Simova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2016

Annual Kyustendil Readings 2016

Периодика 2019

Author(s): Emiliya Voleva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 39/2019

Content of the main Bulgarian scientific journals for the current year in linguistics, literature, history, folklore, ethnography, archaeology and art studies.

Научни форуми

Author(s): Emiliya Voleva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 39/2019

Data about scientific events in the field of the humanities in Bulgaria in 2019