Изследователските направления по етнология във ВТУ “Св. св. Кирил и Методий”

Author(s): Iliyana Gancheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2011

The article follows the research interests and trends in science Ethnology at Veliko Tarnovo University “St. St. Cyril and Methodius “. Presented are all ethnological monographs, symposiums, teaching aids, as well as individual publications, which are out of print in Veliko Tarnovo University. They present the names of senior scholars in the field of ethnology and the young professionals and students. It is shown established tradition of the Veliko Tarnovo University to collaborate with the Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” and other regional universities.

Етнологията – ключовият PR на българската наука

Author(s): Petya Bankova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2011

At this stage of development of the Bulgarian Ethnology, in the absence of funds for well-paid professional PR, everyone should be able to stand before a camera or microphone to “translate” in popular language the results of their work. Because the media prefers to communicate directly with scientists, rather than professional PR’s or people responsible for this activity. Science is assessed on its public importance and this means that we can not afford to look at promoting it as something frivolous or as “haltura”.

Специализираният архив на ИЕФЕМ – информационна банка на науката

Author(s): Anni Kirilova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2011

The article considers the stages through which passes specialized archive of IEFEM and the tests that have been subjected its classification system.

Предпоставки за трансформирането на Института за народонаука в Етнографски институт с музей при БАН

Author(s): Miglena Atanasova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2011

This article is dedicated to the creation of the Institute for ethnology and the conditions for its transformation into EIM at BAS. The interest in the topic is generated by the transformation of EIM at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore in the Ethnography Museum in 2010

Lühikroonika

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): Estonian Issue: 10/2020

Chronicle of events.

Lühikroonika

Author(s): Not Specified Author / Language(s): Estonian Issue: 10/2017

Chronicle of events.

Lühikroonika

Author(s): Not Specified Author / Language(s): Estonian Issue: 12/2017

Chronicle of events.

Kaitstud doktoritööd

Author(s): Not Specified Author / Language(s): Estonian Issue: 12/2017

Defended doctoral theses.

Lühikroonika

Author(s): Not Specified Author / Language(s): Estonian Issue: 03/2018

Chronicle of events.

Lühidalt

Author(s): Janika Kronberg ,Vivian Siirman,Mall Jõgi,Brita Melts,Johanna Ross / Language(s): Estonian Issue: 12/2018

Reviews of: Mihkel Mutt. Kõik on hästi. Mõtted II. Tallinn: Fabian, 2018. 191 lk. Lehte Hainsalu. Olla üheksavägine. (Aja lugu.) [Tartu:] Petrone Print, 2018. 168 lk. Heili Reinart. Õrnad ja tugevad. Unustatud ja unustamatud naised Eesti ajaloost. Tallinn: Post Factum, 2018. 255 lk. Kroonikast epitaafini. Eesti- ja Liivi¬maa varauusaegsest haridus- ja kultuurielust. (Rahvusarhiivi toi-metised 1 (32).) Koostaja Katre Kaju. Tartu: Rahvusarhiiv, 2017. 472 lk. Ülo Matjus. Raamat on raamat. Artikleid ja ettekandeid aastaist 1953–2017. (Ilmatargad.) Tartu: Ilma-maa, 2018. 336 lk. Eda Kalmre. What a Wonderful World of Legends! Articles on rumours and legends. Koost, toim E. Kalmre, tõlkijad Kait Tamm, Tiina Mällo. Tartu: ELM Scholarly Press, 2018. 302 lk.

Lühikroonika

Author(s): Not Specified Author / Language(s): Estonian Issue: 12/2018

Chronicle of events.

Lühikroonika

Author(s): Not Specified Author / Language(s): Estonian Issue: 12/2022

Chronicle of events.

Aastasisukord 1-12

Author(s): Not Specified Author / Language(s): Estonian Issue: 12/2022

Keel ja Kirjandus annual contents for year 2022.

Slavic Mythology Lost in Fantasy: Literary Adaptations of Slavic Beliefs in Andrzej Sapkowski’s and Juraj Červenák’s Novels

Author(s): Zuzana Obertová / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2022

Slavic myths increasingly survive in people’s consciousness as supernatural elements or as literary characters rather than as real beliefs in their existence. Adult readers in Poland and Slovakia, for example, encounter Slavic supernatural beings in the fantasy literature book series such as Wiedźmin by Andrzej Sapkowski and Černokňažník by Juraj Červenák; however, literature cannot be expected to portray superstitions and demons in the same way as belief legends. Placing Sapkowski’s and Červenák’s works within the context of ethnographically recorded beliefs illuminates various aspects of intercultural and intertextual relationships within the literary setting. This article shows that there are several types of literary adaptation of Slavic myths: adaptation in accordance with folk beliefs, denial of superstitions, incorporating a folk myth in order to create an illusion, and using the name of a demon while also adding characteristics from other sources – especially from popular culture.

(Nie)szczęśliwe zakończenia we współczesnej literaturze dziecięcej podejmującej temat Zagłady

Author(s): Anna Sałatarow / Language(s): Polish Issue: 4/2022

Among Polish books in the genre of children’s literature, there are many that do not refrain from taking up difficult topics, ones which are burdened with a heavy emotional charge. Among such books are numerous stories about the Holocaust. These stories provide an opportunity to work through traumatic emotions and, at the same time, open the field for reflection on the shaping of socially desirable moral attitudes among young readers and on the mediating role of adults in the reading process. This article analyzes selected works representing this genre as attempts to overcome the dominant convention of happy endings in children’s literature. Anna Sałatarow also attempts to define the consequences of the unhappy or open endings in stories for young readers.

Грамофонске плоче гуслара: реконструкција епске традиције у социјалистичкој Југославији

Author(s): Danka Lajić-Mihajlović,Smiljana Đorđević Belić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 177/2022

The ideological sensitivity of the epic, i.e., the fact that, more than other folk artistic expressions, it incorporates and reflects the dynamics of the dominant ideological-political discourse of the societies in which it originates, and is reshaped through direct performances and/or media representation, also makes it a highly representative example of the relationship between state (cultural) policy and traditional culture. Phonograph record were chosen as an indicator of the state (cultural) policy of the second half of the 20th century, a period marked by communism and state socialism, and traditional values, such as singing with gusle. By examining this cultural production, we broach a complex issue of the relationship between official policies and individual actions from different positions, from conforming to ideological-political norms to transgression thereof. As a cultural product of the socialist era, phonograph records of gusle singing reflect the intense negotiation between continuity/preservation and innovation/modernization, which marked the status of tradition in the processes of constructing a new Yugoslav identity. Through considering of some of the aspects of this cultural production (characteristics of the performance, repertoire, visual representation of tradition on album covers, record companies’ policy, etc.) within the framework of the cultural-political, socio-cultural, market-economic and technological-media domains, we point to dialogic relationships with modernity and its official narratives.

Трудови миграции на българи в Западен Сибир през 70-те и 80-те години на 20 век. Социокултурни аспекти

Author(s): Mikhail Kamenskikh / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2022

The article is devoted to analyzing arrival circumstances, population, settlement, work conditions, socio-cultural adaptation and particularities of relations with the local community of builders from Bulgaria who migrated to Western Siberia within the framework of government contracts. The sources for the research were unpublished archival materials, data from journals and field trips recorded in the Tyumen region in 2019–2020. The research has revealed that travelling to the USSR in order to get income played an important part in the individual success strategies of Bulgarian youth in the1970s and became quite widespread. Between 1970 – the late 1980s Tyumen region had 7000 Bulgarians living in it with the biggest groups working in Tyumen, Surgut, Nizhnevatovsk, Urai, and Nadim. Several neighbourhoods, working villages and oil extraction facilities in Western Siberia were built by them. Also, both in Tyumen and Surgut there are squares of Soviet-Bulgarian friendship, and in Surgut there is a monument to Georgi Dimitrov. Upon arrival in the USSR, the Bulgarians had a privileged status. The main adaptation difficulties were associated with the local climate and language barrier. The life of Bulgarians and the work of “Glavbolgarstroy” company in Western Siberia laid a strong foundation for economic activity that gave rise to a large inflow of Bulgarian migrants to Russia in the 1990s. As a result, according to all Russian censuses in 2002 and 2010 Tyumen region had the largest community of Bulgarians registered in Russia. Today Bulgarians in Western Siberia are present as third-generation migrants; they play a significant role in the socio-cultural and economic spheres of Tyumen Region. A large number of them maintain emotional bonds with their motherland and keep in touch with their families and close people in Bulgaria.

Международна научна конференция „Българите в Урал Сибир“, София, 5 – 6 октомври 2022

Author(s): Galin Georgiev,Elena Vodinchar / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2022

Body and senses in the production of cultural meaning: from Middle Ages to TV series, films and video games

Author(s): Gerardo Fabián Rodríguez,Lidia Raquel Miranda / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

In medieval times, the literary nature of the works, including written ones, were determined by contextual elements such as the acoustic and momentary channel of communication along with the domain of gestur-al, instrumental and vocal codes. These elements conditioned writers and performers when they improved and perfected their capacities and perfor-mance, on which the message as a whole depended. Today the media and entertainment industry also use complex and rich connections between verbal and visual signs to produce highly symbolic messages through im-aginary re-enactments of the past.The wide range of discursive productions of the Middle Ages can be ana-lysed through the study of the elements and factors that become carriers of meanings and the way in which they do so. We consider that a comparable perspective is also suitable for contemporary semiotic practices that, when interpreting documentary sources of various types and incorporating them into suitable fictional formats for the general public, constitute playful re-configurations of the historical, literary and fantastic Middle Ages. Accordingly, this paper attempts to examine certain components of mass culture which have transformed narratives, characters and fictional worlds, distinctive of the Middle Ages, into communicative and semiotic practices reinterpreting historical and literary texts as a way of reflecting on people, social life and its problems in the present world. It starts from con-sidering that semantic plurality and diachronic bases of the idea of body and senses enable an interdisciplinary and comparative study, in order to understand their historicity, their ideological effect and the innumerable aesthetic possibilities which they promote in different areas of culture. The reflections take into account the bodily and sensory aspects of the Middle Ages selected by series, films and video games with an impact, as signifi-cant elements, on current cultural orientations and attitudes.

Змајевити јунаци у српској и староенглеској епици

Author(s): Danijela S. Mitrović / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 178/2022

Comparative foundation in folklore research should equip us with the necessary tools to disentangle the intricate web of oral pasts of different cultures. This web might be made of the same material, but methods and techniques could vary, and that is the moment in which the comparative scholarship becomes indispensable. This paper aims to show that the dragon-like heroes who exist in Serbian epic poetry under that name, could be a remnant of an older tradition and that we could postulate their existence in other epic poetries, including in particular English epic poetry. The application of the knowledge regarding the interpretations of snakes, dragons and thunder gods in both of these national poetries and their respective folklores, guides the way in which it is discovered that many, if not all, of the interpretations could be applied to the qualities of the dragon-like heroes both in Serbian and English epic poetry. Both Zmaj Ognjeni Vuk and Beowulf can be seen as dragon-like heroes through their virtues of early maturity and enormous strength, through their ability to fight in battle more bravely and more intelligently than other heroes. They are able to beat other dragons due to the qualities which they share with them, they are the champions who are sought in the trying times of numerous kingdoms, and they are the sole protectors of the safety of various mead-halls. The early Christianisation that was carried out on the British Isles probably contributed to the early conversion and negative valorisation of epic heroes of the old, pagan times. Therefore, it takes time to single out the positive elements which are attributed to Beowulf and to put them in the right perspective. However, the epic tradition in the Balkans has had a much greater impact and the negative elements are almost completely diminished. This could be the reason why it might seem rather difficult to put the sign of equation between these two epic heroes. Nevertheless, both of them have the same qualities and exhibit remarkable similarities once they are compared in greater detail: they are both orphaned (historically more or less correctly), they both displayed unusual feats of bravery in their early lives, they are both considered to be of extreme importance to their respective kingdoms as peerless heroes. Yet, at the very first glance it seems almost impossible to say that they are similar. Although many layers have been added over the course of time, the tradition which seems to be shared emerges in both epic poetries in its essential uniqueness, despite different embellishments.