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Labour migration has become a mass phenomenon among Albanians from the Republic of Macedonia – during the last five decades, tens of thousands of people have left their native areas, seeking profit in Western European countries in order to better their living standard. Remittances sent by migrants are an important source of income for relatives in their places of origin.Most surveys examining the effects of migration tend to deal with remittances spent on food, clothing, housing, education, and health services. Investments in family-based business activities often are another accent of analysis. In this paper, however, I pay attention to issues of community-based or collective remittances. In the theoretical literature, collective remittances are seen as donations which are turned into investments of public interest. Various community projects financed through collective remittances have taken place in localities with high rates of migration. What distinguishes these projects is, namely, the collective benefit or good they provide.This paper examines different forms of such local projects based on collective remittances and mutual community engagement in Albanian villages in Macedonia. With such resources, people urbanize their villages and also support seriously ill people or people who have been devastated by a disaster. Questions about the existence, uses, and impacts of collective remittances are analysed in relationship to the broader discussion of remittances and development.
More...Wokół narracji losu Anki Grupińskiej i Jánosa Kőbányaiego
The text is devoted to an analysis of the phenomenon of conversation. The author analyzes two volumes of interviews: Anka Grupińska’s "Still in a Circle", and "Izraeli szellem ma" by János Kőbányai, both of which explore the significance of talking about the Holocaust and the manner in which it can be done. The positions of the two writers demonstrate that on the map of post-Holocaust genres, one of the most important is the interview/conversation, which allows one to view another’s untouchable history and experience it without disturbing it.
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The article reveals the features of everyday life in student dormitories of universities or postsecondary educational institutions in new urban areas in the middle of the 20th century in the cities of Siberia. As specific regions of mass housing of the 1950 – 1960s the author studies the areas related to the types of the workers’ (Omsk town of oilmen) and the scientific (Novosibirsk Akademgorodok). The study is based mainly on the methods of oral history and has an interdisciplinary character. The author concludes that the sociocultural milieu of those dormitories had a significant influence. It determined not only the home dimension of students’ everyday life, but also some mental guidelines of students of a particular area. In those new dormitories had formed the elements of everyday life which later on characterized students’ life.
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Конференция «Повседневность российской провинции (XIX – XX вв.)», инициированная центром устной истории и визуальной антропологии Пермского государственного гуманитарного педагогического университета и проведенная 5-6 ноября 2013 г. кафедрой новой и новейшей истории России этого университета позволила рассмотреть два определяющих феномена национальной ментальности в общем ракурсе. Несмотря на то, что последнее пятнадцатилетие гуманитарной науки оказалось достаточно продуктивным в описании феноменов провинции (провинциальных и локальных текстов, провинциальных сюжетов и сценариев) и повседневности (эмпирической, эстетической, трудовой, экзистенциальной и т.д.), представленные на конференции исследования нельзя назвать вторичными. И хотя большинство докладов было связано с повседневностью XX века — периодом истории, когда провинция уходит на периферию и становится имплицитной темой культуры — результаты конференции можно распространить (учитывая необходимые коррективы) на предшествующие периоды и, в частности, на XIX век.
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The article deals with the history of studying Koroghlu destan in the different works of scientific workers. In the article the destan Koroghlu systematical has been learnt in Europe and Russian sources.
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Before becoming history, war was delivered to memory on the conditions that this great tragedy is felt purely personal, individual. The memorial war“bill” is accomplished, then, after a imprescriptibly "privatization" of the tragedy, under the sovereign view on the war, from the official point of view, that remains detached from bomb on earth launched at the height of the plane or at the height of the “objectivity” of war strategies. The lower part of war, combatants and civilians directly affected by the tragedy has a punctual concrete look as a very personal experience marked by a strong “behavioral and emotional identification”. This method of transferring the history of war in memory of participants, as processing and takeovers of “living history” defines the memory of war as war of memory.The historiographical outline of the reconstruction of the war through memory, stages and inflections, the emergence of memory in historiographical discourse as a first concentric delimitation and the typology of the „bottom” memory or, more precisely, the possible thematic or generic dissociation of this memory, as the second concentric circle, can argue descriptive and interpretative valences of the war played between history and memory.
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The article is a twofold attempt: at re‑reading the category of a topos after the Shoah and at interpreting the particular record of the oral history in the context of the liminal metamorphoses the notion of the topoi – crucial in European culture and literature – has undergone. In the first part of the text, the author recapitulates the studies on the aforementioned category – from Aristoteles to the twentieth century scholars (Curtius, Lausberg, Ziomek, Abramowska, Panas); in the second part, she tries to apply it in interpretative practice.
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The author examines the materials in the contemporary course of magazine "Macedonian Review" in the last 24 years of its existence, where the matters of the Western Outlands history are discussed.
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Academician Ivan Duridanov is one of the brightest writers, published in the magazine "Macedonian Review" after the democratic changes of 1989 and the recovery of the series, founded in 1924.
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The paper examines the folklore motif in the epic tradition of the Southern Slavs concerning the maiden-hero and her arrows with feathers, who put Krali Marko and his confreres to the test. The author explains the meaning of vuina as juniper and spruce for the Bulgarians, and as fir in the Russian language, and recalls the semantic closeness between cedar and cypress – the trees symbolising Artemis and Aphrodite, being associated later with the Virgin Mary. The role of the maiden-hero, who is often depicted dancing and the feather is seen not only on her arrows, but also as a part of her garments – above all as head-dress – was associated with the idea of fertility and with the archetypal image of the Great Goddess. The colour of the feathers and their number appears to be of essential importance to the magic power of the arrow that the maiden-hero (samovila) shoots against the hero, while – on the other hand – the hero manages to kill the maiden (samovila) precisely with such an arrow. The feather motif is known in another semantic order as well: the hero’s fight against a mythological dragon-monster, in which he is victorious owing to a feather from the mythical bird Noah (known among the different peoples as Nog, Nogot, Nagar-tur, Nogarshin, Cher-nogot, Cher-nagar, Astratir, Ostrafil, etc.). The different notions about that mythical bird are united by common iconographic features: huge size, radiance, living at the end of the world in a cave, or on top of cliffs, or on a sacred tree. In conclusion, the author stresses that the diversity of feathers in folklore is connected with their magic properties, whereby the emphasis changes depending on their function and origin (from vuina, from a bird or from a mythological creature.
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