Fotografie Alfreda Silkiewicza ze zbioru Karola Lanckorońskiego wykonane z okazji wizyty arcyksięcia Rudolfa w Tarnopolu jako przykład materiałów źródłowych do badań dziejów Galicji i jej mieszkańców

Author(s): Adam Korczyński,Ewa Skotniczna / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2023

In 1929 Karol Lanckoroński (1848–1933) donated his collection of scientific photographs to the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences. Among the photographs of works of art and archeological relics in that collection we can also find prints of ethnographic nature, including photographs by Alfred Silkiewicz, a photographer with connections in Ternopil. On 6 July 1887 the heir to the throne Archduke Rudolph visited Ternopil and saw an ethnographic exhibition designed specially for his visit in the municipal garden. The central figures of the exhibition were residents of minor towns of Eastern Galicia brought to Ternopil, dressed in regional costumes. The text focuses on the circumstances of taking those photographs and on their significance as a source for researching the history of Galicia and its residents.

Źródła do XIX-wiecznych dziejów podkrakowskiej parafii w Rybnej

Author(s): Bartłomiej Michał Wołyniec / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2023

Local history, including histories of parishes as centres of religious but also social and cultural life, have long been the focus of interest of both historians, history lovers and local patriots. This is also the case of the parish in Rybna, which has recently become the theme of a monograph – of popular-science nature, though based on extensive archive research. Even though it does not exhaust the theme of the history of that village and parish near Cracow, it is a perfect point of reference for this paper. The 19th century was very significant for the history of the Rybna parish: among others, a new church was built there in the first quarter of that century. That is why the sources from that period are pretty significant, if not fundamental in many aspects. The documents developed at that time are now kept in several institutions, of which the most important are the Archive of the Metropolitan Curia in Cracow and the National Archive in Cracow. This paper discusses the materials kept there.

Adam Skałkowski i jego uczniowie w archiwach ziemiańskich (1877–1945)

Author(s): Dariusz Łukasiewicz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 10/2023

The article describes the process of studying gentry archives by Professor Adam Skałkowski (the 1919 founder of Poznań historiography) and his students. These vast source materials perished along with the gentry class itself in 1945, and the works of the Poznań historian and his followers are the last trace of them. The main source material is the correspondence between members of the gentry and Skałkowski’s students, stored mainly in the Manuscript Department in the Library of Adam Mickiewicz University, but also in the Archive of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw and the Ossolineum in Wrocław. This is complemented by Skałkowski’s memoirs from the author’s collection. The inquiries and trips of Skałkowski and his students to palaces and manors helped create dozens of source articles and monographs. The article aims at reconstructing these researchers’ work in archives. The series titled “The lives of esteemed Poles in the 18th and 19th centuries” (written by Skałkowski) alone included 34 book publications — the fruit of these investigations, including multiple papers by MA and PhD students.

Trying to Rally Citizens around Authorities: Neotraditionalism and Nation building in Postcolonial Sub Saharan Africa

Author(s): Dmitri M. Bondarenko / Language(s): English Issue: 52/2023

In post colonial states, in particular in sub Saharan Africa, an appeal to the historical past for the construction of national identity acquires great importance. It becomes important especially due to the failed attempts to copy political models based on European theories and experience and therefore turning to “neotraditionalism” as an ideological basis in an attempt to rally citizens around authorities. What makes it possible is the eclecticism of public consciousness and collective picture of the world generated by colonialism and strengthened by the transformations of the postcolonial era. Neotraditional relationships, of course, do not absorb all the diversity of types of relationships in socially and culturally very multi layered postcolonial societies. However, it should be noted that today, they find areas of implementation in public consciousness and practice, and there is even a tendency to expand these areas.

Prikazi

Author(s): Kristina Vugdelija,Andrea Matošević,Sanja Đurin,Iva Niemčić,Lea Biličić,Olga Orlić,Juraj Šantorić,Andrija Filipović,Antonija Todić / Language(s): English,Croatian Issue: 46/2023

Reviews of: Nataša Jagdhuhn, Post-Yugoslav Metamuseums. Reframing Second World War Heritage in Postconflict Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022., 259 str.; Sanja Potkonjak i Tea Škokić, Gdje živi tvornica? Etnografija postindustrijskoga grada, Institut za etnologiju i folkloristiku, Zagreb, 2022., 307 str; Senka Božić-Vrbančić, Prekarnost. Priče iz Ubera, Jesenski i Turk, Zagreb, 2023.,159. str.; Ivana Katarinčić, Estetika i etika baleta. Ambivalentna opstojnost, Institut za etnologiju i folkloristiku, Zagreb, 2022., 299 str.; Tomislav Augustinčić, Goranovo proljeće. Mjesto i društveno sjećanje u kontekstu pjesničkog festivala, Hrvatsko etnološko društvo, Zagreb, 2023., 112 str.; Uvooo! Eviva nam kumpanija, poša nam je alavija! – etnografija Lastovskoga poklada. Joško Ćaleta i Iva Niemčić, Institut za etnologiju i folkloristiku, JU Park prirode Lastovsko otočje, Zagreb, Lastovo, 2022., 248 str.; Social Impact in Arts and Culture. The Diverse Lives od a Concept, Iva Kosmos i Martin Pogačar, ur., Založba ZRC, Ljubljana, 2022., 391 str.; Affect’s Social Lives. Post-Yugoslav Reflections, Ana Hofman i Tanja Petrović, ur., Inštitut za spominske i kulturne študije ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana, 2023., 302 str.; Lica gladi. Sit gladnom ne vjeruje, Tanja Kocković Zaborski (ur.), Melanija Belaj, Jelena Ivanišević, Ana-Marija Vukušić, Željka Jelavić, Maja Žanko, katalog izložbe, Zagreb, Etnografski muzej, 2023., 102 str; In the Frictions. Fragments of Care, Health, and Wellbeing in the Balkans Conference, University of Zadar, 27–29 April 2023.

Book review

Author(s): Laia Perales Galán / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2023

Mitmekülgne kogumik Läti naisajaloost

Author(s): Janet Laidla / Language(s): Estonian Issue: 5/2024

Review of: Letonica. Humanitāro zinātņu žurnāls. Kd 49. LU Literatūras, folkloras un mākslas institūta apgāds / The Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art of the University of Latvia, 2023. 254 lk.

Lejla Hairlahović-Hušić: Identitet/i muslimana u Cazinskoj krajini

Author(s): Ivan Grkeš / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 35/2023

Review of: Lejla Hairlahović-Hušić, Identitet/i muslimana u Cazinskoj krajini. Sarajevo, Zagreb: Univerzitet u Sarajevu – Institut za historiju, Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu – Odsjek za etnologiju i kulturnu antropologiju, 2021., 343 str.

HIVZIJA HASANDEDIĆ I NJEGOV PRISTUP IZUČAVANJU KULTURNE HISTORIJE BOŠNJAKA

Author(s): Mevludin Dizdarević / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 97/2024

Hivzija Hasandedić is one of the scholars who got their degree at VIŠT (degree in Islamic-Sharia theology), where he received theological, universal education, but in a later phase in their life made an eminent contribution in the field of Bosnia and Herzegovina cultural heritage studies. Hivzija Hasandedić left almost an entire library of valuable research contributions and authentic documents which are indispensable in studies of the history of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The most dominating aspect of his method was the micro-historical approach to his studies that can be explained as the history from beneath or the research that takes for its subject, not some large-scale events, but rather focuses on those small, marginalised spaces and topics. These small topics as such create a mosaic which provides a better and more wholesome view of the entire historical process. The present article aims to study and present Hasandediće’s methodology of the approach to studies of culture and history. We tried to observe what heritage was the subject of his study, in what way and in what volume, believing that in that way we would gain a better understanding of his attitude towards cultural history and what enabled him to produce such a remarkable volume of works.

Prikazi

Author(s): Ines Prica,Deniver Vukelić,Ljubica Anđelković Džambić,Mirela Hrovatin,Vilma Benković,Kristina Vugdelija,Sanja Potkonjak,Marijana Dragičević,Ivana Budimir,Sanja Đurin,Adrijana Vidić,Noel Putnik,Helena Glavaš / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 1/2024

Review of: 1.) O biblioteci Nova etnografija – uz više od 20 godina postojanja i drugo izdanje prvog objavljenog djela; 2.) Zoran Čiča, Vilenica i vilenjak. Sudbina jednog pretkršćanskog kulta u doba progona vještica, Drugo, izmijenjeno izdanje, Institut za etnologiju i folkloristiku, Zagreb, 2023., 212 str.; 3.) Stjepan Pepeljnjak, Bela roža i črleni jorgovan. Običaji zagrebačke okolice od tradicije do pučkoga kazališta, ur. Tvrtko Zebec i Anamarija Žugić Borić, Institut za etnologiju i folkloristiku, Zagreb, 2022., 355 str.; 4.) Miroslava Hadžihusejnović Valašek, Dušo, sad pođi sa mnom. Tradicijske nabožne pripovjedne pjesme i molitve iz Slavonije i Baranje, Đakovačkoosječka nadbiskupija, Đakovo, 2022., 350 str.; 5.) Jelka Vukobratović, U (g)radu i zabavi. Etnografija križevačkih glazbenika, Hrvatsko etnološko društvo, Zagreb, 2022., 134 str.; 6.) Mi gradimo otok, otok gradi nas. Okoliš sjećanja / We are building the island, the island is building us. Environment of remembrance, ur. Jasmina Bavoljak, voditelj projekta Davor Bavoljak, Udruga Goli otok “Ante Zemljar”, Zagreb, 2021., 215 str.; 7.) The Caring State and Architecture. Sites of Education and Culture in Socialist Countries, ur. Jasna Galjer, Sanja Lončar, Hrvatsko etnološko društvo, Zagreb, 2021., 236 str.; 8.) Nina Vodopivec, Tu se ne bo nikoli već šivalo. Doživljaji izgube dela in propada tovarne, Inštitut za novejšo zgodovino, Ljubljana, 2021., 307 str.; 9.) Andrea Matošević, Kolos Jadrana. Industrijski film i brodogradilište Uljanik u drugoj polovici XX. stoljeća, Srednja Europa, Zagreb, 2023., 219. str.; 10.) Pioniri maleni. Crtice iz života pionira kroz zbirke Hrvatskoga školskog muzeja, autorica izložbe Kristina Gverić, Školski muzej, Zagreb, 2024.; 11.) Shaping Revolutionary Memory. The Production of Monuments in Socialist Yugoslavia, ur. Sanja Horvatinčić i Beti Žerovc, Igor Zabel Association for Culture and Theory i Archive Books, Ljubljana, Berlin, 2023., 421 str.; 12.) Robert Rydzewski, The Balkan Route. Hope, Migration and Europeanisation in Liminal Spaces, Routledge, London, New York, 2023., 160 str.; 13.) Ecofeminism on the Edge. Theory and Practice, ur. Goran Đurđević i Suzana Marjanić, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, 2024., 263 str.; 14.) Balcano-Balto-Slavica i semiotika, odg. ur. I. A. Sedakova, ur. A. B. Ippolitova, Institut za slavistiku RAN, Moskva, 2023., 116 str.; 15.) Indija i srpska književnost, ur. Nemanja Radulović, Zadužbina “Dositej Obradović”, Beograd, 2021., 145 str.; 16.) David Šporer, Konformizam radikalne misli. Kritički historijat metodoloških i političkih pozicija Michela Foucaulta, Disput, Zagreb, 2023., 354 str.; 17.)

ახალი წიგნები

Author(s): Not Specified Author / Language(s): Georgian Issue: 2/2023

კავკასიის ისტორია, ტ. 1, ტ.2. მთავარი რედაქტორი რ. მეტრეველი, თბილისი, გამომცემლობა არტანუჯი, 2023; სამეცნიერო ჟურნალი „ლოგოსი“, № 10, თბილისი, 2023; როინ მეტრეველი, წარსული ხელოვნების ენით, თბილისი, გამომცემლობა არტანუჯი, 2023 (ქართულ, ინგლისურ და რუსულ ენებზე);ნიკოლ და ჟან-მიშელ ტიერები კავკასია და ანატოლია, შუა საუკუნეების ქართულ ხელოვნება, გამომცემლობა არტანუჯი, 2022; დავით მუსხელიშვილი, შრომები, ტ I, თბილისი, გამომცემლობა არტანუჯი, 2023; ნათია ფიფია, ქეთევან ნადირაძე, ლერი თავაძე, გიორგი ოთხმეზური, ჯაბა სამუშია, მიხეილ ბახტაძე, აპოლონ თაბუაშვილი, ნიკოლოზ ჯავახიშვილი, სულხან კუპრაშვილი, ალექსანდრე ბოშიშვილი. ქართველ მმართველთა ისტორია, თბილისი, გამომცემლობა ნოტა-ბენე, 2023; ბატურინი ვ., სულხანიშვილი მ., მეცნიერების ფილოსოფია, თბილისი, გამომცემლობა: სამართლიანი საქართველო, 2023.; იოსებ ბანძელაძე, ქართული საზომის დადგენის ისტორია - მეტროლოგიური ანალიზი, თბილისი, გამომცემლობა აკადემიური წიგნი, 2023.; იოსებ ბანძელაძე, ქართული საზომის დადგენის ისტორია - მეტროლოგიური ანალიზი, თბილისი, გამომცემლობა აკადემიური წიგნი, 2023; CUNEUM - ლურსმნული ტექსტების კორპუსი.ხეთური დაკრძალვის რიტუალი. ხეთურიდან თარგმნა - ნინო ჩარექიშვილმა, გამომცემლობა აკადემიური წიგნი, 2023.; აკაკი გელაშვილი, რუსეთ-საქართველოს ომი 1812-1813 წლებში, თბილისი, გამომცემლობა არტანუჯი 2023.

Традиционната медицина на българите в Южна Украйна (тернивските българи).

Author(s): Vladimir Gamza / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2023

The article examines some aspects of the traditional medicine of the Bulgarians in Southern Ukraine based on the example of the Bulgarian Diaspora group living in Ternivka (today a micro district of the city of Mykolaiv) since the beginning of the 19th century. The text demonstrates that the heritage of folk medicine is passed down from generation to generation in the community, in particular the experience of self-healing with phytotherapy, minerals, etc. The role of the healers – soothsayers and fortune tellers, as well as folk midwives – is noted. Personal information is provided about individual healers and their treatment methods. Examples of treatment by spells of ordinary and so-called folk diseases are given, as well as authentic texts used by witches recorded by the ethnographer Sergey Tsvetko. Particular attention is paid to the peculiarities of the treatment of children’s diseases. A conclusion is made about the limitations of folk medicine and its natural transformation into non-traditional in the second half of the 20th century.

P. Hristov, I. Markov, V. Periklieva, D. Pileva. (Eds.) Coming to, and Staying in, the Poorest Country in the EU. Immigration to Bulgaria, 2023

Author(s): Vanya Ivanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2023

Анатол Анчев. Превъплъщения (Притчи за изначалото). София, 2022

Author(s): Rossen Malchev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2023

Татары Великого Княжества Литовского в Соединенных Штатах Америки

Author(s): Siarhiej Miskiewicz / Language(s): Russian Issue: Spec/2023/2023

At the end of the 19th and at the beginning of the 20th century, Tatars of the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania started migrating to new lands and countries including England, Argentina and America. They were looking for work and the USA became their preferred country. Many Tatars returned back to homeland, but most of them stayed in America and succeeded. Tatars from Ivje, Navahradak, Mir, Kleck, Tavsiuny, Milkuny, Śviańciany, Dokšycy, Uzda, Śmiłavičy, Minsk, Vilnia and other settlements of Russian Empire before the World War I founded their registered society in New York in 1907. It was the first Muslim organization in the USA. They also founded the Muslim mizars in the Maple Grove and Cedar Grove cemeteries in New York. They started teaching children and bought a building for mosque in 1930. Tatars provided the annual dances and picnics, organized the funding (dues, fees, fines, loans, donations) for payment of expenses, helped the Society members (death and illness benefits) and Muslims in other countries including the former homeland (Ivje in 1922, Niekrašuncy, Warszawa in 1945 and etc.). They published a newspaper, the prayer books. They took part in the main historical events in the USA: the World War I, the World War II, Korean and Vietnam wars, post-war occupation of Germany, etc. Unfortunately, the Society had been developed until 1960s (member quantity was more than 300) and now it is in decline due to assimilation and migration. This article is devoted to the Tatar society of the USA. It is based on the results of study of family collections, oral stories, archival documents (Ellis Island cases, certificates of birth, death, marriage, draft) and pictures. The organization structure, the names of the famous Tatars and the Society board members (presidents, vice-presidents, secretaries, treasurers, imams, teachers, bank account holders, funeral committee members, etc.), the information about two cemeteries are revealed and provided.

Musical Instruments of the Turkic Peoples of the Volga Region and Urals

Author(s): Gulnara Khayrullina / Language(s): English Issue: Spec/2023/2023

National musical instruments are part of the culture and history of the people. They reflect the characteristics, temperament and mentality of the people, the conditions for their formation as an ethnos. Variety, rich sound, unusual melody pattern – national musical instruments create all this. Every ancient musical culture has its origins in ancient rites. Folk music of the Turkic peoples of the Volga region and the Urals was no exception. Singing was accompanied by pagan and mystical sacraments, holidays, household and daily rituals such as hunting, harvesting and much more, including military campaigns. The sound of folk instruments has a specific musical pattern and voice that distinguishes the musical instruments of the Turkic peoples from other ethnic groups that have settled since ancient times in the Urals and the Volga region. This is due to the fact that the Tatars and Bashkirs have always preferred melodic musical instruments that allow performing a branched, rich melody in a wide range. Although the list of musical instruments has about fifty varieties, this article analyses the most characteristic and ancient ones.

Bettelorden, religiöses Leben und Stadtbevölkerung in Siebenbürgen im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert. Skizze eines Dissertationsvorhabens

Author(s): Mirjam Theodora Wien / Language(s): German Issue: -/2023

Das Dissertationsprojekt nimmt verschiedene Formen der Interaktion zwischen Ordensangehörigen und Stadtbevölkerungen in Siebenbürgen im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert in den Blick. Im Fokus stehen dabei die männlichen und weiblichen Zweige des Dominikaner- und Franziskanerordens. Die weiblichen Konvente waren wohl auch aufgrund der zeittypischen Frömmigkeitsvorstellungen und Ordensideale weniger dem Blick der Stadtöffentlichkeit ausgesetzt und sind in den überlieferten Quellen weniger präsent. Dennoch waren sie mit der Stadtbevölkerung vernetzt und sollen daher ebenfalls behandelt werden. Es könnte sinnvoll sein, sich auf einen der beiden Orden zu beschränken. Hierfür bieten sich die Dominikaner an, die tendenziell weniger gut erforscht sind. Eine entsprechende Entscheidung und Eingrenzung, auch hinsichtlich der genauen Auswahl der Städte, steht noch an.

Fractured Mobilization: Miami’s Little Haiti Confronts Mega-Real Estate Speculation

Author(s): Richard Tardanico / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2024

Disenfranchised urban communities worldwide are increasingly vulnerable to land dispossession and cultural erasure as neoliberal regimes unleash intensified financial speculation within polarizing and splintering local/global class and racialized disparities. A dilemma of disenfranchised communities when confronting speculative intrusions where prospective allies have become marginalized or eliminated is whether, and to what degree, to resist such threats contentiously at the risk of zero-sum defeat versus accommodative negotiations seeking to rescue modest benefits while mitigating dislocations. The forms and intensities of community responses can be conceptualized as embedded within multiscalar state society and local politico-spatial configurations. From that perspective, I address a predominantly Black immigrant district, Miami’s Little Haiti, as it confronts mega-real estate speculation within a metropolitan political economy of corporate real estate hegemony and accelerating racialized expulsions. The contentious versus accommodative dilemma and local/supralocal political landscape fractured and neutralized the Haitian collective responses. I conclude by discussing the case’s theoretical/comparative implications.

NIGHT, COSMIC AND ANTHROPOMORPHIC ELEMENT IN GRECO-ROMAN AND ROMANIAN MYTHOLOGY

Author(s): Liviu Olteanu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 37/2024

Among the most significant cosmic elements, Night brings into its mystical essence a multitude of myths and legends encountered since antiquity. If we refer to Greek mythology, Night is personified by the goddess Nyx, one of the most emblematic deities, also having the greatest cosmic forces in the Universe. It had the power to direct the shadows over the whole world, creating with their help, the Night. Goddess Nyx is presented as an enigmatic captivating entity, guiding the whole world to restful and healing hours. In Roman mythology, Night is associated with Nyx and Nox, respectively. The Roman goddess of night is presented to us as a woman with large black wings, wandering the sky throughout the night. She is the twin sister of the goddess Dia (day), also bearing the name Ceres. In Greco-Roman mythology, the time of night is considered the time when deities meet, a time dedicated to completing tasks. Even in mythological accounts, night is remembered in stories of Eurydice or Orpheus, Selene or Endymion. Romanian mythology brings to the fore a multitude of legends and mythological figures associated with the night. Its occurrence is associated with various mystical events. This connection between night and sacred space is marked by an inexhaustible source of rituals implemented in the consciousness of the person from the rural environment.

TRANSYLVANIAN VILLAGES BETWEEN TRADITION AND MODERNITY. CHITID AND JINA CASES

Author(s): Paul-Cristian Albu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 37/2024

The purpose of the paper is to draw a parallel between different folkloric traditions in Chitid, Hunedoara County and Jina, Sibiu County. I am interested in discussing how these ancient traditions can be preserved in the modern world which is entirely submitted to the globalization phenomenon. I am also interested in discussing about these historical and geographical areas in the context of multilingual and religious diversity. In order to offer a consistent view of this parallel, I will use the technique of diverse monographic books, focusing on how to express the idea of the patriarchal universe avatar in contemporaneity. The creative use of language will be regarded as a means to make visible the new paradigm in which Romanian folklore can be understood and loved in contemporaneity.