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Author(s): Michal Babiak,Natália Blahová,Sekeráková Búriková,Peter Salner / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 3/2019

Reviews of: 1. LADISLAV LENOVSKÝ: Naši vo svete – Slováci južne od hranice Slovenska I.–III. [Our People in the World – Slovaks South of Slovakia’s Border I–III] Vydavateľstvo – Editura Ivan Krasko, Nadlak (Rumunsko), 2016, 166 s.; 2017, 147 s. 2018, 201 s. Review by: MICHAL BABIAK; 2. JÁN BOTÍK: Slováci vo Vojvodine: premeny svojbytnosti enklávneho spoločenstva [Slovaks in Vojvodina: The Transformations of the Enclave Community’s Autonomy] Nový Sad: Ústav pre kultúru vojvodinských Slovákov, 2016, 272 s. Review by: NATÁLIA BLAHOVÁ; 3. ADÉLA SOURALOVÁ a kolektiv: Péče na prodej: Jak se práce z lásky stává placenou službou [Care for Sale: How Work out of Love Turns into Paid Service] Brno: Munipress, 2017, 249 s. Review by: ZUZANA SEKERÁKOVÁ BÚRIKOVÁ; 4. Nielen obete, aj páchatelia majú potomkov... (Úvaha inšpirovaná knihou Bolestivé mlčanie) Not Only Victims, Criminals Also Have Offspring... (An Essay Inspired by the Book Painful Silence) ALEXANDRA SENFFT: Bolestivé mlčanie [Painful Silence] Premedia, 2019, 272 s. Review by: PETER SALNER

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How Roma Mayors Penetrate the Municipal Power Structures: Resisting the Non-Roma Dominance in Slovak Local Governments

Author(s): Tomáš Hrustič / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2020

This paper discusses the outcomes of power asymmetries in Slovak municipalities with Roma population and presents examples how local Roma leaders resist the non-Roma dominance by active participation in local elections. Presenting data from field research and long-term repeated observations, the paper shows successful strategies of elected Roma mayors who disrupt the usual perception of the Roma as objects of decision-making process and passive recipients of various policies. In these paternalistic beliefs Roma have never been seen as actors who can control resources, who could hold the political power and who could decide how to use the resources. Although the Roma have penetrated the power structures of many municipalities, they are not able to wipe out invisible ethnic boundaries, or, at least, to soften and disrupt them. However, as the text illustrates, it seems that the political power asymmetries in a significant number of municipalities are being balanced, nevertheless, the symbolic dominance and symbolic power of non-Roma still persists.

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ALCOHOL IN MYTHIC SPACE: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY LINGUO-CULTURAL ANALYSIS

Author(s): Oleksandr Kolesnyk / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2023

This article addresses verbal means of denoting ALCOHOL in the context of the “mythic space”. Mythic space is regarded as the focal segment of a language worldview, the container of irrational axiomatic data quanta that function as basic categorization operators at different stages of civilization’s development. Primal “nano-myths” are reconstructed via etymological analysis of alcohol-containing beverages’ names in different European languages. The article discusses semantics and linguo-cognitive premises of the language signs denoting alcohol beverages in archaic Germanic worldview and in the presentday English-based pop-cultural worldview. The paper suggests a synthetic interdisciplinary interpretation of linguo-cultural implications of the said semantic and cognitive models.

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Old Homes and New Homes: Hierarchies Entangled Generative Space

Author(s): Yana Hashamova / Language(s): English Issue: 5/2023

Two Bulgarian women from different generations living in France find themselves confronted by one of the most morally abhorrent legacies of socialism, the role of the state security services and regular people’s complacency. Using as case studies Bojina Panayotova’s documentary I See Red People (Je vois rouge; Cherveno, tvarde cherveno), 2018, about her family’s contacts with Bulgarian secret services and the film’s reception in Western media, as well as the ‘scandal’ of Julia Kristeva’s collaboration with these units, as it was covered in Bulgaria and in the West, I interrogate what the legacy of totalitarianism reveals about continuous cultural tensions and divisions between the West and Southeastern Europe, in this case, Bulgaria. Relying on life narratives, cinematic stories and media reception theory, I contend that Southeastern European societies are still unable to confront their histories of perpetrators and victims, and the West, carried by the traditions and inertia of cultural and economic hierarchies and perception of domination, is still unable to know Eastern Europe and to analyse its history. To evoke Michael Rothberg’s ‘implicated subject’ idea, I contend that both cultures are implicated. Based on these two cases, I consider theoretical questions on thinking Europe (both Western and Eastern, centre and periphery) from what I call the generative space. Moving beyond post-imperial, post-colonial, and post-socialist concepts, are there other productive approaches to revitalised Cold War imaginaries?

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Cave and Magic Lamp

Author(s): Kujtim Rrahmani / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2020

We dwell in a cave, searching for a magic lamp. No kidding. This is not a masquerade. A light embodied into the magic lamp stems from the inside of the cave. T here is no cave without a lantern or the other way round. The cave and the magic lamp constitute the foundations of the darkness-and-light life oxymoron. This essay aims to explore the imaginary space of the cave and the lamp as a topic, a genre, an emotion, a symbol and a world of the uncanny in a fairy tale, in knowledge and everyday life. Plato’s parable, the Cave, and the fairy tale of Aladdin and the Magic Lamp from the 1001 Nights are just two symbolic reference points that provide a suitable landscape for a journey of meditation and pondering in a world of magic. T he quest for the magic lamp becomes an inner human urge to comprehend, realise, experience and believe, but not understand at the same time. Certainly, the cave and the magic lamp shed light on crucial life dimensions, dilemmas and struggles. A genie granting wishes and capable of helping one get ‘out of the cave’ remains ubiquitous in human experience. The cave and the magic lamp render human adventure of human existence possible, making it always fit for endless exploration. This essay is a small effort to tread along that path.

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Deleuze, the Ritual and Magic as the Formation of Sense

Author(s): Cecilia Inkol / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2020

What is a ritual? A ritual is an enactment, an ordered series of actions to invoke certain states of consciousness, spiritual entities or to provoke an influence that ripples from the domain of imagination and intention to manifest spiritual, social, personal and/ or material effects. A ritual is bound up with repetition in connotation and practice; we repeat a ritual in the endeavour to induce again a particular outcome of effects. G. Deleuze’s philosophy has been productively compared with hermeticism (Ramey, 2012). If we mine the philosophical oeuvre of Deleuze, we can derive fresh insight into the nature of the ritual, what it expresses, and how it operates. For Deleuze, repetition is not what we think it is. Repetition secretly expresses difference and change: repetition is novelty. Repetition is the invocation of chaos, chaos as ordered structure, activating a non-chronological model of time that Deleuze calls the Aion. In Deleuze’s lexicon, the ritual can be conceived as a practice of magic that endeavours to create chains of resonance which energise a dimension of sense, as well as sense-experience or sensation. The inscription of sense is the generation of meaning, and creates new significations, how myth and poetry attain their valences, and is the promise of revolution or transformation. The inscription of sense is the creation of an effect, and the opening of a world. Sense creates existence through its expression, and thus is the locus of magic, as well as its invocation in the ritual

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The Concept of Good and Evil in Jewish Folklore and Mysticism

Author(s): Vladimir Janev / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2020

The ethical concept in Jewish folklore and mysticism reflects its heritage from the ancient Middle–Eastern civilisations (Egypt, Syria, Babylon). There are examples of certain myths which were created before the existence of Judaism, and which were eventually somehow ‘adopted’ and preserved (as Jewish myths) until today. In time, these myths changed along with the historical processes of modernity and secularism in Judaism. Another relevant topic in Jewish mysticism was the lack of women theologians until the second half of the XX century. In fact, in traditional Judaism women were not allowed to study theology and mysticism.The ethical concept in Jewish folklore and mysticism reflects its heritage from the ancient Middle – Eastern civilisations (Egypt, Syria, Babylon). There are examples of certain myths which were created before the existence of Judaism, and which were eventually somehow ‘adopted’ and preserved (as Jewish myths) until today. In time, these myths changed along with the historical processes of modernity and secularism in Judaism. Another relevant topic in Jewish mysticism was the lack of women theologians until the second half of the XX century. In fact, in traditional Judaism women were not allowed to study theology and mysticism. The ethical concept in Jewish folklore and mysticism reflects its heritage from the ancient Middle – Eastern civilisations (Egypt, Syria, Babylon). There are examples of certain myths which were created before the existence of Judaism, and which were eventually somehow ‘adopted’ and preserved (as Jewish myths) until today. In time, these myths changed along with the historical processes of modernity and secularism in Judaism. Another relevant topic in Jewish mysticism was the lack of women theologians until the second half of the XX century. In fact, in traditional Judaism women were not allowed to study theology and mysticism.

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Mystic Relations to the Homeland

Author(s): Mila Maeva / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2020

Migration has become a key issue and challenge for Europe, one which will dominate the European Union’s policy and the individual member states’ political programs in the coming years. In this respect, the migrations from Bulgaria over the last 30 years have led to the departure of large numbers of Bulgarians and their settling down in various destinations, both within and outside the EU. The present study is based on ethnographic material collected over different time periods (2007–2019) from diverse groups of Bulgarian immigrants living in the UK, USA, Canada, and Norway. The research focus is the mystical relations to the homeland described as a kind of ‘energy’ connecting migrants to Bulgaria. The study describes and analyses the narratives of different Bulgarian groups, especially first generations abroad, organised according to their profiles and their beliefs concerning baba Vanga and magical practices associated with the Bulgarian lands.

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Sеmomit in a New Incantation Bowl

Author(s): Gaby Abousamra / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2020

Magic bowls bear spells meant to disable demons and to protect people from all sorts of bodily and mental illness. Most of these bowls were found in Mesopotamia and dated approximately to the 5th and 7th centuries AD. This kind of magic spell was practiced by the different communities living in this area: Jewish, Christian, Mandaean, and Manichaean. The present research concerns a new incantation text which, as far as we know, has no parallel in publications on magical bowls. The text is an incantation to establish and protect the descendants of Duday, daughter of Makanta, from all kinds of afflictions and from evil angels whose names are mentioned here for the first time. Palḥašat and Abaddon, the good angels, are invoked to redeem and save Duday and her sons from Ṣemomit who snatches the newborns from the breast of their mothers and kills them. The text ends with a Biblical Hebrew verse (Zechariah 3: 2) which is used frequently in this kind of literature.Magic bowls bear spells meant to disable demons and to protect people from all sorts of bodily and mental illness. Most of these bowls were found in Mesopotamia and dated approximately to the 5th and 7th centuries AD. This kind of magic spell was practiced by the different communities living in this area: Jewish, Christian, Mandaean, and Manichaean. The present research concerns a new incantation text which, as far as we know, has no parallel in publications on magical bowls. The text is an incantation to establish and protect the descendants of Duday, daughter of Makanta, from all kinds of afflictions and from evil angels whose names are mentioned here for the first time. Palḥašat and Abaddon, the good angels, are invoked to redeem and save Duday and her sons from Ṣemomit who snatches the newborns from the breast of their mothers and kills them. The text ends with a Biblical Hebrew verse (Zechariah 3: 2) which is used frequently in this kind of literature.

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Author(s): Adriana Damyanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2025

The text uses Milton Bennett‘s Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity (DMIS) to problematize some educational stereotypes and reveal some of the possibilities of reading interpretation, or of understanding reading literature at school to contribute to the development of intercultural sensitivity of students. For this purpose, the works of Hr. Botev, Iv. Vazov, A. Konstantinov, P. P. Slaveykov, Y. Radichkov, and others.

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The Roma and the Russian Migrants in Finland – Ethnicity as a Means of Stereotypisation

Author(s): Kai Viljami Åberg / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2021

This article explores ethnic stereotypes in interaction with shared identity in the intercultural communication: Finnish, Finnish Roma and Russian migrants in Finland. The key idea is to identify the salient features of ethnic stereotypes with the goal to manage stereotyping in the light of the constructivist theory (Berger and Luckmann,1966) highlighting categorisation and conceptualisation. The theory is validated by long-term empirical approach among the Roma since 1994 and among the Russian migrants since 2015. I argue specifically in favour of building a shared identity the analysis of which showed the possibility of considerable reduction of stereotypes. Several examples confirm and illustrate how de-stereotyping works and verify my findings.

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Medical Migration to Bulgaria

Author(s): Mila Maeva / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2021

The crisis with COVID-19 and the world pandemic have affirmed the role and importance of medical staff not only for health but also for the normal functioning of postmodern societies. Its insufficient number and qualification in the last more than ten years is a serious issue in Bulgaria, and the crisis that occurred in 2020 − 2022 has only deepened it. Therefore, the arrival and accommodation of medical staff here are perceived as an important brain gain for the country. The study is based on fieldwork research conducted in 2020 − 2021. It presents and analyses individual cases searching for patterns of medical migration to Bulgaria. It also studies examples of foreign students who graduated in medicine and have remained to work and specialise in Bulgaria. The highlights of the research are the migrant`s own projects and processes of adaptation and integration of physicians who come to Bulgaria from different countries – Syria, Greece, and RN Macedonia. Finally, the prospects for attracting qualified medics to the country in view of the state policies towards them are considered too.

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Rescuing Animals in Bulgaria – Or Foreigners with Causes

Author(s): Plamena Stoyanova / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2021

In 2000, the first ‘Dancing Bear Park’ was opened in Bulgaria. Located on the southern side of the Rila Mountains, in the vicinity of the town of Belitsa, it became a sanctuary for nearly 30 bears that had been rescued from a life of street entertainment. The park was created with the active participation and support of the French actress Brigitte Bardot and was one of the first examples of animal sanctuaries built with the help of a foreign citizen. The world-famous star never lived in Bulgaria, but today many expats who have settled or reside in the country also have a special attitude towards the animals here and Bulgarian nature in general. Moreover, for some, taking care of local street animals has become a mission. This paper will explore their reasons for devoting themselves to the care of street animals and to the preservation of Bulgarian nature. The research will also try to answer the question: ‘What do Bulgarians learn from these foreigners?’

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Eessõna. Uuringu „Elust, usust ja usuelust“ taustast ja metoodikast

Author(s): Laur Lilleoja / Language(s): Estonian Issue: 2 (86)/2024

Eestlaste usulist identiteeti ja vaimseid praktikaid on viimase kolme kümnendi jooksul vaadeldud mitmete sotsiaal- ja religiooniuuringute abil. Nende uuringute seas paistab järjepidevusega silma küsitluste sari „Elust, usust ja usuelust“ (EUU), mille raames kogutud andmed moodustavad aluse ka käesoleva kogumiku artiklitele. EUU küsitlus viidi esmakordselt läbi dr Hans Hanseni initsiatiivil 1995. aastal ning seda on Eesti Kirikute Nõukogu tellimusel korratud iga viie aasta järel. 2020. aastal toimus uuringu kuues voor, mis annab võimaluse analüüsida eestimaalaste usuliste vaadete muutumist 25 aasta jooksul. Sedavõrd pika ajajoone, laia teemade spektri ning suure juhuvalimi (keskmiselt üle 1000 vastaja) tõttu on andmestik unikaalne nii Eesti kui ka rahvusvahelises kontekstis, pakkudes hõlmava ja põhjaliku religioonisotsioloogilise ülevaate eestimaalaste usulistest tõekspidamistest ja nende muutustest.

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HUMBLE HOSPITALITY IN CALLIMACHUS' HECALE

Author(s): Mirela Averikios / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 40/2025

This paper examines the representation of humble hospitality in Callimachus' Hecale, one of the most influential epyllia of antiquity. The poem presents the encounter between Theseus and the elderly Hecale, who offers him shelter in her modest dwelling during a storm. Through an analysis of the fragments, the study explores the poem’s thematic innovations, such as the anti-heroic perspective, the glorification of simple life, and the neoteric reconfiguration of epic motifs. Additionally, the paper highlights Callimachus' sophisticated poetic techniques, including intertextual references, stylistic contrast, and the reinterpretation of traditional epic conventions. By focusing on the central scene of hospitality, the study demonstrates how Hecale serves as both a literary innovation and a response to earlier epic traditions, particularly Homeric narratives. This analysis contributes to a deeper understanding of Callimachean aesthetics and the evolution of Hellenistic poetry.

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Biografie psów w baśniach Hansa Christiana Andersena pt. „Krzesiwo” oraz „Bałwan ze śniegu”

Author(s): Katarzyna Mencfel / Language(s): Polish Issue: 33/2024

The aim of the article is to analyse literary biographies of dogs in fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen. Fairy tales as a genre accompany readers from the youngest years, becoming an important element of childhood memories. Returning to them as a more mature reader allows for new interpretations, which take into account the complexity of literary characters, including the non-human ones. Special attention in Andersen’s works should be given to animals, who receive their own literary biographies. The article discusses the methodology of analysing animal biographies, and then, presents zoocritical intepretations of two selected fairy tales by the Danish writer. The ecocritical interpretation focuses on literary representation of dogs, including their symbolism and function in the narrative context. The conclusion of the article is devoted to suggestions on how to integrate animal biographies into teaching Polish in primary schools, including the teaching potential and educational value of this approach.

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FROM ART TO TRAUMA, COLLECTIVE MEMORY AND RECOLLECTION THE MONUMENT OF GERMAN ETHNIC DEPORTEES IN THE USSR, FROM THE CITY OF REȘITA

Author(s): Iudit Calinescu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 40/2025

The monument built in memory of the German deportees in 1945, in the USSR, from the city of Reșita, is a symbol of remembering an individual and collective trauma, of the German community in the city, but also an attempt to recover a historical event that marked the life of this city of Banat, forever. An interesting aspect, related to the construction of this moment, is the fact that, for its realization, an artist born in Reșița, Hans Ion Stendl, was chosen, whose individual history is directly intertwined with this traumatic historical event of the city, his parents being part of the Germans deported to the USSR. In this case, art also becomes an individual attempt to overcome the trauma, beyond the desire to recover the collective history, through a monument loaded with symbols, related to the community's traumatic event. The monument has a crucified Jesus in the center, a symbol of sacrifice, faith and resurrection, but also a symbol of the desire to never forget the past, a traumatic momnet in the history of one of the most important ethnic communities of the Banat region, the Germans.

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THE INFLUENCES OF TOTALITARIAN REGIMES ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF ETHNO-ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN INTERWAR AND POSTWAR SPAIN

Author(s): Carmen-Elena Pogonici / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 40/2025

Primo de Rivera's dictatorship proved to be the cornerstone in calibrating the historical, political and social context of Franco's dictatorship. Both regimes defended traditional Catholic and military values. Primo de Rivera's social-Christian ideology was based on Spanish nationalism and the fight against separatism. Franco's regime, with conservative views, was authoritarian rather than totalitarian. Franco's great concern was to maintain power and authority in Spain and not to gain the support of the masses, glory or the formation of an empire. Both regimes used nationalist ideologies, derived from the romantic theory of "cultural identity", by reviving the glorious moments of the nation and promoting traditions and popular customs. Some anthropologists have signaled the formation and promotion of symbols of national identity, of stereotypes, starting from a tradition, often invented. The reduction of a rich popular culture to the symbols on the flags, to some dances or to linguistic differences has led to an annoying and degrading result. The Franco dictatorship slowed down the development of Spanish anthropology and any interest in ethnology research disappeared. People identified with this field were exiled or repressed, and the activity of the institutions was suspended. The regime managed not only to keep the discipline at distance from all the progress registered outside the country, but also an involution inside the country. The only one that enjoyed a relative success in the Franco era, but not development, was the folklore, proving to be a useful tool in propaganda and mass manipulation. The emotional and direct contact with the popular tradition, recreated or invented, as well as the banal use they gave it, made folklore an instrument of transmission and propagation of the ideology of the Franco regime.

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VILLAGES IN ILFOV COUNTY AT THE BEGINNING OF THE REGULATION AGE

Author(s): Vasile Grigore / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 40/2025

The adoption of the Organic Regulation of Romania triggered a period of great changes, of deep political, legal and administrative reorganization. The Regulation Age (1831-1858) is a special one in the history of the Romanian space, the one that marks its transition from "the periphery of the Ottoman Empire to the periphery of the West" (Bogdan Murgescu). The need to know, as well as possible, the state in which the country was at that beginning of the Regulation Age and the subsequent progress led to the collection of detailed data from all areas of life. General Pavel Kiseleff's desire to have the most correct, undistorted perspective on all matters related to the administration of the Romanian countries also contributed to this. The territorial-administrative organization of the counties underwent spectacular developments during the Regulation Age, a matter that has not been researched much in the case of the Ilfov County. The research we put forward has the intention of shedding light on the stage from which the reformation process started in the case of the Ilfov County and thus offer, for the future, the possibility of relevant measurement of the extent and results obtained. We therefore want to highlight the number of the Ilfov settlements at the beginning of the regulatory period and the difficulties this approach entails. Furthermore, we want to identify the reasons why the sources that we used, both published and unpublished, provide different figures regarding the number of villages contained by the Ilfov County around 1831.

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THE TRADITIONAL CULTURE OF BRICKMAKERS IN THE VILLAGES OF MEHEDINȚI COUNTY

Author(s): George Șoavă / Language(s): English Issue: 40/2025

Bricks is one of the oldest occupations of the Roma,wich has played a very important role in the economy of the old village. The research subject of bricks is a complex one. It is a vague and difficult subject. In the case of these, the primary springs are missing, a fact explained by the traveling nature of this people the study consist in the characterization of the Roma culture on the territory of Mehedinți county, as well as highlighting the problems facing the Roma community, which occupations have and how they were integrated in the areas where they have established.

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