"Погребение – сватба" – идея и об редна практика

"Pogrebenie – svatba" – ideя i ob redna praktika

Author(s): Vanya Nikolova / Language(s): Serbian Publication Year: 0

The matter of issue is the wedding of the young unmarried defuncts which is considered as a "funeral-wedding" in the relevant literature. Mythologic reason and basic idea of the "funeral-wedding" are looking for at the intersection of the two fundamental traditional life cycle rituals mythological planes – the wedding and the funeral. The comparison between the traditional ethnographic data and those from the period of the transition is made on the thematic level with the aim of finding their mutual relation and reasons for this phenomenon’s survivle.

"Тютюн, метал и калдъръм"

Сетивност, памет и нематериално културно наследство в града

Author(s): Meglena Zlatkova / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

The article analyzes sensory images of three urban places that are constructed in the interviews and memories of a craftsman A.K. - bearer of the intangible cultural heritage, who is a representative of the Armenian community in Plovdiv, held in 1999 – 2000. The approach of sensory anthropology was used. A sensory landscape of Plovdiv is outlined, in which “Kapana”, the Old Town and the Tobacco Town are connected by the memories of the smell of tobacco, the sounds of metal and cobblestones. Sensory memories underpin narratives of the Armenian community connected to these places through their crafts, as industrialists important to the city, and as individuals. Relationships of closeness are observed that existed until the middle of the 20th century and the memories of these relationships are expressed through the memories of the “of closeness”. The changes in social, political and economic relations lead to the gradual change in the ways of constructing the collective memory of the places in Plovdiv. The three topos are becoming more and more touristic places and the connections with the place are becoming more distant as the main senses constructing the sensory landscape with modernity are sight, taste and sounds. From places of everyday life, especially after the project “Plovdiv 2019 – European Capital of Culture”, Kapana and the Tobacco City are turning into cultural scenes, places of consumption and creativity and festival topos.

"Ханска Украйна - Мукатаа Томбасар" (края на XVII-XVIII век)

Author(s): Alexander Sereda / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

The aim of the paper is to explore the region of Northwest Black Sea lands in the early 17th-18th centuries, in the context of the Ottoman and Crimean administrative and territorial structure; the political preconditions for the formation of Khan Ukraine - special administrative and territorial unit with the Ukrainian-Kazakh population under Crimean governance; the organization of the economical and fiscal district "Muqataa Tombasar" in the framework of Khan Ukraine. It presents the defter (register) of the revenues and expanses in Muqataa Tombasar and localizes the settlements and their population in the Northwest Black Sea region.

#METOO AND US POLITICS: ANALYSING THE TWITTER CONVERSATION

Author(s): Vittoria Bernardini / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2021

The #MeToo movement has had a profound cultural impact on US society, and notably on US party politics. While many studies have addressed the #MeToo-related controversy arising from the Brett Kavanaugh nomination to Supreme Court Justice in 2018, the relationship between #MeToo and US politics before this event has remained understudied. This article, therefore, addresses this gap by looking at the role of politics at the beginning of the #MeToo movement. Focusing on the first six months of online activity on Twitter (October 2017 – April 2018), over 2 million tweets with the #MeToo hashtag are analyzed to identify the main activity patterns across the dataset and to gain insight on user behavior and participation in the conversation. Results point to the weaponization of #MeToo in the political context from its inception. It is suggested that #MeToo reflects the polarized political climate in the US and that it can be conceptualized as part of the wider “culture wars” (Hunter 1991) that characterize the public debate.

#NeDamoGaleriju

Author(s): Irfan Hošić / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 1/2018

Iz ove vremenske perspektive odbrana Gradske galerije čita se kao podvig ogromnih razmjera koji zaslužuje određeni spomenik, tj. simbol šireg društvenog značaja nad kojim je moguće prisjećati se te velike i značajne bitke. [...]

140 пословици и поговорки от Голо Бърдо, Албания (по материали от с. Требища)

Author(s): Gergana Coneva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 8/2014

A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF KEYWORDS IN ENGLISH-LANGUAGE CORPORATE PRESS RELEASES FROM EUROPEAN COMPANIES: INSIGHTS INTO DISCURSIVE PRACTICES

Author(s): Hanna Teresa Skorczynska Sznajder / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2016

This study provides insights into discursive practices through a comparative study of keywords in English-language press releases from British, Spanish and Polish energy companies. Even though corporate press releases have been extensively researched, there is a lack of cross-cultural and corpus-based studies in this field. In the present research three corpora of approximately 120,000 words each, containing English-language press releases from British, Spanish and Polish energy companies, were used. The keywords were identified with the Wmatrix tool (Rayson 2009) and the reference corpus consisted of business periodical articles. The analysis of corpus keywords usually provides insights that would be difficult to gain by means of manual analyses of texts or qualitative approaches. The results obtained in this study show notable differences between the corpora with regard to the keywords identified. The use of more general meaning keywords by British companies or more technical keywords by Polish companies suggest that lexical choices might be indicative of different discursive practices used to reach stakeholders and the general public.

A Contemporary Free Verse from American and Ukrainian Readers’ Perspectives

Author(s): Olga Kulchytska,Iryna Malyshivska / Language(s): English Issue: 42(47)/2022

The study presents an experiment aimed at discovering similarities and differences in how American and Ukrainian participants perceived contemporary free verse. Three poems were examined from the perspectives of intertextual/infratextual/intratextual context dimensions. The presence of intertextual characteristics – reflecting social reality and metaphoric content – was recognized by the majority in both groups of participants, yet across the groups, there were differences in the degree of value placed on each characteristic. Differences in views on the infratextual contexts reflect the variability of functions performed by the initial/intermediate/closing parts of the poems. As regards intratextual context dimension, there were significant similarities in the participants’ views on the imagery, in the constructed text-worlds, emotional responses, interpretations, and encountered difficulties. The analysis of the intratextual contexts of the poems indicates that some texts may drive readers’ interpretations, thus reducing the role of culture in their reception.

A Field for Further Investigation

Author(s): Jonathan Roper / Language(s): English Issue: 85/2022

Review of: Simon Franklin. The Russian Graphosphere, 1450–1850. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 428 pp.

A framework for exploring cultural and creative industries in regional contexts: the role of cultural intermediaries

Author(s): Annette Naudin,Ieva Zemite,Agnese Hermane / Language(s): English Issue: 46/2022

The overarching goal of this article is to contribute methodological frameworks for identifying Latvia’s cultural and creative ecosystem and its key actors. The authors reiterate the significance of the cultural and creative industries (CCI) and the complexities of defining and analyzing the CCI. The main research question of the article is to ask: what concepts need to be considered when researching Latvia’s CCIs ecosystem? This leads to the following questions: 1)What are the characteristics of regional, national and global perspectives of CCI and how that might help in the exploration of regional CCI in Latvia; 2)Who are the key actors and what are their roles in CCI ecosystems? In exploring these questions the authors propose some theoretical frameworks and concepts for understanding CCI in Latvia. In the first part of this article, the authors re-assess definitions of the so-called ‘creative industries’ to clarify what has become a confusing term for researchers and policymakers alike (Hesmondhalgh and Pratt 2005; Chapain, Clifton, Comunian 2014; Dobreva, Ivanov 2020). For the purposes of this article, the authors use the term ‘cultural and creative industries’ (CCI) which, as explained below, encompass the relevant debates and meanings. Then, the authors reflect on the CCI in regional contexts: ideas of ‘locality’ and place-making in small towns and regions. Finally, attention is drawn to the role of cultural intermediaries, which are described as entrepreneurial professionals working as part of the CCI, facilitating relationships, shaping and contributing to local cultural and creative ‘ecosystems’ (Neelands et al. 2015). By emphasizing the position and role of actors engaged in intermediation, this article argues that it is important to highlight local social interactions and tasks, which are sometimes hidden or perceived to be inconsequential by policymakers, CCI practitioners, and scholars alike. To begin this discussion the authors review key scholarly debates for defining the CCI.

'A Milestone in the History of Slovakia': Two Narratives about the 2015 Referendum on the Family in Slovakia

Author(s): Alica Synek Rétiová / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2022

This paper examines a discursive controversy that arose in Slovakia after a conservative civic association initiated a referendum to protect 'traditional families' against the supposed encroachment of LGBTI rights. The 2015 referendum represents a tipping point in the formation of a new Slovak conservative political front. In this article, meaning-making among actors civically engaged in the referendum is brought to light by re-constructing the deep cultural structures in which they are immersed. Drawing upon the strong programme in cultural sociology, I analyse the master narratives woven through the discourse of the referendum organisers and boycotters. These narratives are re-constructed from 20 semi-structured interviews with the engaged actors and a corpus of 82 written documents, such as blogs, speeches, and declarations concerning the referendum. The analysis employs the methods of thick description and the structural analysis of narrative genres. It shows that, first, the referendum controversy presents a clash between a narrative of social decline and a narrative of social progress. The narratives serve as moral regulators by deploying emotionally loaded images of nostalgia for 'traditional families' and a utopia of unconditional progress. Second, although both narratives interpret the referendum as a milestone in the history of Slovakia, they do so in different genres with specific implications for action. Using the example of the decision by referendum opponents to withdraw from the pre-referendum debates, I demonstrate how narrative genres as implicit and deep cultural structures have the power to orient action and shape the contours of controversy.

A MÚZEUMOK ÉS ONLINE TEREK. A MÚZEUM TÁRSADALOMÉPÍTŐ SZEREPE A JÁRVÁNY IDEJÉN

Author(s): András Vajda / Language(s): Hungarian Publication Year: 0

During the last six months, not only the cultural institutional network but also all of humanity has entered in a peculiar existential state. All that was previously commonplace, accepted, or natural has become in many ways impossible or, in some cases, even illegal. During the last period, we could have also witnessed the changes regarding museums and museum environments, and we, who inhabit/use the spaces of the museums, have also changed. These changes affect the frameworks of representation and reception, as well as our viewing and interpretation habits. The pandemic has caused a backward step in museum practice to a previous stage. Museums have suddenly re-become archives preserving objects and meanings, and it will take time for them to recollect themselves and start searching for solutions.

A Small Literature in the Service of Nation-Building: the Estonian Case

Author(s): Arne Merilai,Katre Talviste / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2019

The idea of Estonia’s cultural and national self-sufficiency emerged in the nineteenth century. The contribution of writers and poets was essential to this development. Literature anticipated not only cultural, linguistic, and artistic, but also the economic and political emancipation of Estonians. Cultural practices leading to this emancipation were largely based on Baltic German models; many key elements to the independent Estonian national identity are of foreign origin. On the one hand, the nineteenth-century nationbuilding could therefore be described as self-colonization. On the other hand, it rather created a new nation than transformed a preexisting one, since the very concept of national identity was introduced by this process. Through various political and cultural upheavals, the most influential authors from this seminal period of the Estonian modern culture have remained iconic to this day. The traditional identification with them is so strong that the tentative origins of the nation and the identitary struggles of the national poets themselves may often be forgotten and the personal and individual nature of their contribution downplayed.

ABORTED MOTHERHOOD AND TRAUMATIC HISTORY. AN ANALYSIS OF SOME CONTEMPORARY ROMANIAN NOVELS BY WOMEN WRITERS

Author(s): Roxana-Elisabeta Marinescu / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2022

This article discusses the fictional transpositions of a traumatic event in recent Romanian history in some contemporary novels by women writers. Decree 770/1966 meant the brutal intervention of the paternalistic state in the private lives of its citizens and the redefinition of gender roles to the effect of translating reproductive roles into productive ones. The theme of abortion is analysed from the theoretical perspective of new historicism and cultural materialism and through a feminine and feminist lens in a number of works published by Romanian contemporary women authors in the past few years.

Activitatea parohială și consângenitatea familiei preoțești Pop-Bociat din Clopotiva secolului al XIX-lea

Author(s): Cosmin Panturu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 12/2021

The township of Clopotiva from Hațeg County benefited from two complex studies on village life, completed in the first half of the 20th Century, under the auspice of the Romanian Academy, titled: Clopotiva: a village from Hațeg, two volumes published in 1940, in Bucharest, under the supervision of Ion Conea; together with: Anthropological Research in Hațeg Country: Clopotiva, A Monography, published in Bucharest, 1958, under advisement from Șt. M. Milcu and Horia Dumitrescu. These are references to places, habits, traditions, and family genealogies during that period, also recalling some particulars of the religious life up to that point in time.In that community there was a traditional medieval stone church. At the middle of the 16th Century, the edifice was taken over by the reformist church. However, disputes between Calvinist “Magyar Nemeși” [refers to Hungarian (Magyar) nobility] and the orthodox village congregation (latterly, The United Church) were avoided by switching ownership back and forth until the year 1759, when there was a canonic visit by bishop Petru Pavel Aron. The edifice no longer served its religious function, and was demolished in 1860, while a Calvinist church was built the same year, which was transferred to the Orthodox Church in 1957, under the protection of Pious Saint Paraskeva. Romanians were compensated for the donated edifice through a land donation from the reformed vice-chairman Pogány Iános. On that land, the present-day church was built between 1768-1770, dedicated to St. John The Baptizer, under the shepherding of united priest Ioan Popa. The church turned orthodox after 1948.This paper aims to face readers with the parochial activity in the same location - this time during the 19th Century - focusing on the Pop-Bociat religious family, which managed to leave a significant imprint (spiritual and material) on the shepherded religious community. Using novel published documents from various national archives, it was possible to recreate the blood relationship between clerics Mihail and Avel Pop-Bociat, the latter promoted parish priest in Grădiște (Sarmizegetusa) and dean of Ulpia Traiana.Of course, this presented study can be continued with dates lost in other archives, patiently waiting to be of a use which can be an enhancement - either by confirming, or contradicting hereby presentation.

ADOLESCENT ADJUSTMENT AND CULTURAL SELF-EFFICACY

Author(s): Nadia Rania,Paola Cardinali,Chiara Cifatte,Laura Migliorini / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2012

Several studies have investigated the conditions for adolescents’ adjustment in multicultural contexts. Self-esteem is commonly considered as an index of well-being and of the psychological adjustment of adolescents. Literature on self-esteem maintains that a good level of self-esteem depends on the quality of the subject’s intimate relations with family and friends. In a globalized world the personal and relational impact of the management of cross-cultural contacts with the majority and minority groups is becoming increasingly relevant. This study explores the relationship between the constructs of support, self-esteem, well-being and cultural self-efficacy. The research project used a quantitative methodology through the administration of a self-report questionnaire. There were 312 participants, with a mean age of 15 years (20.5% immigrants). The results show that young immigrants have higher levels of cultural self-efficacy than Italian adolescents. However, in Italian adolescents, cultural self-efficacy correlates with family support. Italians who choose not only Italian friends but also foreign friends have higher levels of cultural self-efficacy. Opportunities for deeper investigation of cultural self-efficacy in the social context are discussed.

Afektivna kultura kao posljedica medijatizacije emocija

Author(s): Goran Bulatović,Ljiljana Bulatović / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 21/2022

Technological innovations and digitization of the media ecosystem, mobility, accessibility, intimacy and individualization of content influenced the change in the model of media reporting and communication culture. In this paper, we consider the practice of mediatization of emotions through affective news as generators of the construction of affective culture, we point out the mode of action of mediatized affective culture and its most important characteristics - discourse, alignment and belonging. Acting according to the logic of the media instead of their own, mediatized emotions and public affects increasingly become the topic and essence of news and journalistic stories, so instead of verified facts, they are offered to the public as a reliable basis for making rational decisions for future action. In the paper, we show how emotions are perceived as artifacts in a mediatized affective culture, how they are shared through affective news and how, based on them, the audience of the media system negotiates and shapes discourses, generates feelings of alignment and belonging, and shapes communities based on common emotions. We also point out that affective discursive alignment does not only occur in the area of ​​positive but also negative emotions, and that polarization based on affective news and the communities formed on it does not always contribute to a better understanding of the world and its problems.

Agricultural Collectivization and Trauma

North West Bulgaria and Bessarabia in Comparison

Author(s): Yana Yancheva / Language(s): English Issue: 23/2022

This study is based on the comparison of the results of an ethnographic research on the process of socialist agricultural collectivization in Bulgaria and among the so-called Bulgarians and Gagauzes from Bessarabia in Southern Moldova and Southern Ukraine. I focus on the problems of peasant’s affection to land and property during the process of collectivization and their resistance to join the co-operative farms and kolkhozes. I problematize the traumatic experiencing of collectivization and analyze the emotions that were driving and affecting people. The analysis relies on the biographical approach and on the study of memory work.

Alfred Fischer, Još nekoliko dana. Budimpeštanski dnevnik 1944

Author(s): Natka Badurina / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 1/2022

Review of: Alfred Fischer, Još nekoliko dana. Budimpeštanski dnevnik 1944., Siniša Bjedov, prir., Disput, Zagreb 2022., 153 str.