The Transformation of a Religious Site. The Rock Church of St. Petka in the Town of Tran: between the Religious Cult and the Tourist Attraction

Author(s): Ivaylo Markov / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2017

The focus of the research is St. Petka Rock Church located in the town of Tran, near the Bulgarian-Serbian border. This religious site is related to the strong and vigorous local cult of a saint who is well-known in the Balkans, St. Paraskevi-Petka. The cult is supported by an interesting local legend according to which St. Petka lived in that same small cave within which the church is situated today. Because of this,St. Petka is considered the patron saint of Tran and its inhabitants. The religious site and the specific cult of St. Petka in the past, as well as today, play an important role in structuring the religious life of the local community and constructing its identity.Proceeding from the historical presupposition and formation of St. Petka’s cult in the region, this article aims to examine some of the characteristics of the development and function of St. Petka Rock Church as a site of worship, as well as to study the changes which have occurred in the last two decades when the religious site was recognized as a site of cultural heritage and a resource for the development of local tourist products in the context of local sustainable development.

Фолклор, разказване, религиозност. Юбилеен сборник в чест на Албена Георгиева. Редакционна колегия: Ангелина Илиева, Вихра Баева, Лина Гергова, Мариянка Борисова, Яна Гергова. София: Издателство на БАН „Проф. Марин Дринов“, 2016

Author(s): Vladimir Penchev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2018

Book Review

Домът на литературата: Югославски и постюгославски представи за литературната споделимост

Author(s): Ludmila Mindova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2018

The Home of Literature is a metaphor of the literature and literary community. However, this metaphor is connected with the home obsession in contemporary post-Yugoslavian literatures. After the collapse of the Former Yugoslavia and Bosnian war, the home is one of the constant themes in contemporary literature in all area. We can see that in the poetry of the Bosnian-Slovenian poet Josip Osti, but also in the novels and essays of the famous emigrant writer Dubravka Ugrešić, as well as in the works of Peter Semolič, Miljenko Jergović, Vida Ognjenović, Jasna Koteska etc. The home is often present even in the titles of their works (House of Language by Osti, House of Words by Semolič, The House of Dead Scents by Ognjenović), and what is more important – the home is a counterpart of the literature as a place of the sense in the world that every day loses a part of its sense and good taste. The literary home is not a utopian place, because it is a collective image and it could be the dystopian place as well. We mark that through the works about the prison and concentration camps – The Damned Yard by Ivo Andrić, the novels and stories by Danilo Kiš, Dragoslav Mihailović, Branko Hofman, Miroslav Popović etc. At all events, the literary home is always a place of the reinventing of the sense.

BOOK REVIEW. DUMITRU OTOVESCU, CRISTINA OTOVESCU (COORD.), THE CRAIOVA CITY: A MONOGRAPHY, BELADI: SITECH, CRAIOVA 2018

Author(s): Vlad Ovidiu Cioacă / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

THE HYPOTHESIS OF “DIMINISHED MAN” UNDERSTANDING HUMAN EXPERIENCE. THE SOCIO-ANTHROPOLOGICAL APPROACH OF HUMAN EXPERIENCE1

Author(s): Ilie Bădescu / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2017

Human distinguishes himself from other beings by its nucleic duality. He is also body and soul, “faulty breather” and “gifted being”. As such, he is threatened by his own identity concomitantly by a spiritual falling (a top-down dynamism) and a spiritual raising (a bottom-up dynamism). This type of analysis involves revisiting the issue of man’s identity itself and consequently requests a new theoretical system. Noological Sociology gives us the adequate categories for such a purpose. The present paper focuses on these issues and proposes a comprehensive paradigm for the upward becoming of human being within the postmodern society. This paradigm gives intelligence also for a new approach of Socio-Bioethics.

EXPRESSIONS OF MAGIC IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY

Author(s): Nicu Gavriluţă / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2017

This text starts from Ioan Petru Culianu's theses on the survival of magic, understood as a pre-modern spiritual discipline, in today's society. The emphasis is placed on magical (as described by Giordano Bruno) fantasies that can be found nowadays in public relations and communication, on the political scene, in the new media and in the cutting-edge technologies of today. The originality of the text consists in the interpretation of the Romanian presidential elections of 2014 as being, among other things, the perverse effect of a manipulation scenario that used fantasies of the "magical" kind. Another original element is the identification within state-of-the-art automotive technologies of certain human dreams and nostalgias that used to belong to the fabulous world of magic. The reference is to the GINA concept from the German group BMW and to two concepts (one from Mercedes and one from BMW) that allow "seeing" into the future and operation using only the owner's vocal commands. These are present-day "magical" actions: voice-based remote control, changing the appearance of the car and enhancing human sight by using automotive technology.

Име и идентичност – наблюдение върху особеностите на именната система в района на Мики (Мустафчево), Помакохория, Северна Гърция

Author(s): Gergana Tzoneva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 16/2018

Today within the Northern Greece still can be heard an old Rhodopy dialect, which is not spoken long ago, even in Bulgaria. Bearers of this language are more than 11 500 inhabitants. The area is known as Western Thrace, West Rhodopes mountain areas of Northern Greece or increasingly popular name Pomakohoriya – i.e. Pomak villages (translated from Greek). The “minority”, as it is called, according to official government terminology, speaks “pomatski”.Common practice today is even separate neighborhoods to be called by the names of their inhabitants. These names are coming often from family names, kinship or paternal (patronims), and differ from the official names and surnames, used from the subjects of the Hellenic Republic.134 Back in time, little more than fifty years, the names were given and chosen in several ways. The most common was the name of grandparents or other close relative of the child – “to do not forget the name” or with the following custom: “Take five-six wooden spoons and assign a name to each, put them in the river and which spoon overtake, give this name of the child. Few days after birth or on the fortieth day, the child is brought to the imam who read him prayer and whispers in his ear three times the name that will bear”.Old, traditional names are only five or six and to distinguish individuals, are used illustrative or household names that often are coming from the kinship name and much less from the official family name. These names are most commonly associated with the name of the father (i.e. middle name) or the mother, the name of the village or the craft of the kinship or the man, so that it cannot be confused easily.For various reasons, mostly health related, the name of the newborn can be changed, which believes to lead the child to better luck and will help his normal growth.Concerning middle (second) names, can be noted that in Pomako¬horiya is observed similar to that process, described by Olga Zirojevic in “Islamization of South Slavic world” of the Balkans. In Bosnia and Herzegovina is not a rare case only the personal name of the newly con¬verted to be Muslim and father’s name to remain the old, like here com¬monly used patronim as a sign of belonging: Ahmet Yusufov – Ahmet, the son of Yusuf, or Djemile Raffia (Rafin) – Djemile, the daughter of Rafia, Mehmetali Hoxha – Mehmetli, the son of the imam (hoxha).Here is how in the real world, we found a different, parallel universe, which has its own laws and rules.

Can One Eat Art? The Political, Socio-Economic and Artistic Role of Food in Peter Greenaway’s Film The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, And Her Lover

Author(s): Małgorzata Kowalewska / Language(s): English Issue: 02/2018

The aim of the article is to present the relationship between food and politics based on the example of Peter’s Greenaway film The Cook, the Thief, his Wife, and her Lover. This particular Greenaway’s film is compelling for the purposes of the presented analysis, as he is an accredited painter and he uses food as references to historic paintings. In my article, I analyse the role of food (as an element of scenography in Greenaway’s film) as a means of explaining political and social problems presented. I will reference to history of art, political and social situation, as well as approach to food in the upper class in Great Britain in ’80s of the 20th century

THE POWER OF SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATION. SIMMEL’S THEORY OF CONFLICT APPLIED TO JUDAISM

Author(s): Mădălina Măndiţă / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2015

The study analyses the way in which the spiritual manifestation - the Judaism - forms in a very profound way the identity of a community. In this view we discover those key elements that become essential in the sociological understanding of a very troubled history, and we can reach this objective using the conflict theory of Georg Simmel. For this sociology of Judaism through what we can call creative conflict (with positive outcomes) we use the impressive studies of Max Weber and Antonin Causse concerning the ancient Judaism. The research of Judaism by the founding fathers of sociology permits us to read this unique people, contributing also to a right framing to understand present social realities, but also to the discovery of those decisive points that forms the immutable character of Jewish identity.

VATICAN RADIO STATION IN ROMANIAN (SOCIAL MESSAGES)-1968-1971

Author(s): Carmen Ionela Banța / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2014

This study brings into focus some thematic and social programs in Romanian of Radio Vatican between the years 1968-1971. Much of the lectures are supported by Monsignor Octavian Barlea. The approach of the social programs is due to the reorientation of the Catholic Church to the modern world determined by the the Vatican Council (II). The themes are actual, meditative and full of social meanings.

Корпоративна Коледа: „партито ми е много по-добро от партито ти“

Author(s): Rossitsa Boulgurova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2018

Christmas is often cited as one of the most global and most commercialized holidays. In the social imaginary it is also one of the most family-oriented holidays. Recently Christmas celebrations have become more and more common outside of the family milieu. In the second half of December, numerous Christmas parties are organized and they have become an invariable part of end-of-year celebrations. It is exactly such types of non-family Christmas celebrations that are the object of interest for this text. The article analyses the “Christmas party” phenomenon, based on a series of interviews and on participant observation. These holiday manifestations are freely imbued with various content, with the purpose of affirming group and organizational identities; they are influenced by global tendencies, including the search for an ever more exciting experience and, last but not least, their media reflection in social networks is no less important than what is happening offline.

Музеят отвъд нацията? Съставители: Николай Вуков, Светла Казаларска, Иглика Мишкова. София: ИК „Гутенберг“, 2016

Author(s): Ivanka Petrova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2018

Book review

Prikazi

Author(s): Dželila Babović,Aida Smailbegović,Goran Pavelić,Ekrem Čaušević,Madžida Mašić,Muamer Hodžić,Amina Šiljak-Jesenković,Alma Omanović-Veladžić,Nihad Dostović,Nedim Zahirović,Adis Zilić / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 67/2018

Reviews of: Esad Duraković, "Klasično pjesništvo na arapskom, perzijskom i turskom jeziku. Poetološki pristup", Orijentalni institut u Sarajevu, Posebna izdanja LII, Sarajevo, 2018, 367.; by: Dželila Babović "Katalog arapskih, turskih i bosanskih rukopisa Muzeja Hercegovine Mostar", obradile Dželila Babović, Madžida Mašić, Orijentalni institut u Sarajevu, Muzej Hercegovine Mostar, Sarajevo 2017, 187.; by: Aida Smailbegović Ekrem Čaušević, "Ustroj, sintaksa i semantika infinitnih glagolskih oblika u turskom jeziku", Ibis grafika, Zagreb 2018, 358.; by: Goran Pavelić Marzanna Pomorska, "Russian loanwords in the chulym turkic dialects", Księgarnia Akademicka, Kraków 2017, 266.; by: Ekrem Čaušević Ewa Siemieniec-Gołaś, "Anonymous italian-turkish dictionary from the Marsigli collection in Bologna", Księgarnia Akademicka, Kraków 2015, 172.; by: Ekrem Čaušević "A Crimean Karaim - English Dictionary", Gulayhan Aqtay and Henryk Jankowski. Department of Asian Studies, Faculty of Modern Languages and Literatures, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poznan 2015; cca. 10 000 riječi, 493.; by: Goran Pavelić Alena Ćatović, "Tragom priče o šejhu Sanʼānu: Hasan Zijaija Mostarac i njegova pripovijest o šejhu Abdurezzāku", Posebna izdanja L, Orijentalni institut, Sarajevo, 2017, 288.; by: Madžida Mašić M. Fatih Köksal, Sana Benzer Güzel Olmaz, "Divan Şiirinde Nazire", Büyüyen Ay Yayınları, İstanbul, 2018, 190.; by: Madžida Mašić Aladin Husić, "Crna Gora u defteru Dukađinskog sandžaka iz 1570. godine", Posebna izdanja LI, Državni arhiv Crne Gore i Univerzitet u Sarajevu – Orijentalni institut, Cetinje – Sarajevo, 2017, 282.; by: Muamer Hodžić Faruk Taslidža, "Bosanski ejalet u doba Bečkog rata (1683-1699)", Izdanja Federalnog ministarstva obrazovanja i nauke, knj. 12, Mostar 2017, 220.; by: Adis Zilić "Bosna i Hercegovina u spisima Ahmeda Dževdet-paše", prevela s osmanskog i priredila Kerima Filan, Connectum, Sarajevo 2017, 262.; by: Amina Šiljak-Jesenković Hana Younis, "Od dućana do pozorišta: sarajevska trgovačka elita 1851-1878", Historijske monografije, knjiga 15, Institut za historiju, Sarajevo, 2017, 357.; by: Alma Omanović-Veladžić "Katalog osmanskih dokumenata (I)", obradila Azra Gadžo-Kasumović, Gazi Husrev-begova biblioteka u Sarajevu, Sarajevo 2018, 448.; by: Nihad Dostović Agron Islami, Selim Selimi, Hatixhe Ahmeti, "Epitafet në gjuhën Osmane: deshifrimi dhe përkthimi i tyre në regjionin e Prishtinës", Fakulteti i Studimeve Islame, Prishtinë, 2017, 133.; by: Nedim Zahirović Selami Şimşek, "Tasavvuf Edebiyati Terimleri Sözlüğü", Litera yayıncılık, Istanbul 2017, 416.; by: Aida Smailbegović İbrâhîm Hâs Halvetî, "Erenler Kitabi: Tezkiretü’l-Hâs", haz. Mustafa Tatçı, Musa Yıldiz, Yasin Şen, H Yayınları, İstanbul, 2017, 625.; by: Madžida Mašić İsam Tahkikli "Neşir Kilavuzu", haz. Okan Kadir Yılmaz, Türkiye Diyanet Vakfı Yayınları, Ankara, 2018.; by: Madžida Mašić

Ангел Букорещлиев: Животоописание във фотографии

Author(s): Lora Hristozova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2019

The present article offers a possible interpretation of a small part of the photographs of Angel Bukoreshtliev – one of the most significant figures of the music life of Plovdiv and the rest of the country in the first half of the 20th century – kept in the MusicalInstruments and Ritual Requisite Fund of the Regional Ethnographic Museum – Plovdiv. The photographs selected for the purpose of the analysis enable us to “read“ the life of Bukoreshtliev from the perspective of his and his family’s social standing and in the context of the development of the Bulgarian photography. On the one hand, having in mind the fact that photography was a luxury until the Balkan Wars and photographic services were within reach of the people of higher social standing, his biography bears record of his belonging to the more well-to-do strata of the society as well as of his successful music and pedagogical career. On the other hand, the photographs selected give us information about the photographers (the Karastoyanovbrothers, V. Velebni, A. Andreev etc.) in Sofia and Plovdiv in that period, about the people they used to photograph, about the people who chose their photo studios etc. The photographs here presented were never published; thus, they introduce a new touch to the research field of the Bulgarian music life. The music funds could give answers to even more questions which may be subjects of other studies.

INTRODUCTION GENERALE

Author(s): Dominique Glaymann,Yves Palau / Language(s): French Issue: 2/2018

Ce dossier coordonné par Dominique Glaymann, Yves Palau, Xavier Pons et David Smadja constitue une sélection de communications prononcées lors du colloque fondateur du Laboratoire interdisciplinaire d’étude du politique-Hannah Arendt (LIPHA) organisé les 4 et 5 juin 2015. Comme il se devait, son premier colloque portait sur l’interdisciplinarité dans l’étude du politique. L’interdisciplinarité et la science politique constitue un objet de recherche déjà bien balisé. Pour se limiter au point de vue de la science politique francophone, plusieurs ouvrages abordent cette dimension, parmi lesquels La fabrique interdisciplinaire sous la direction de Michel Offerlé et Henry Rousso , Science politique et interdisciplinarité sous la direction de Lucien Sfez et Faire de la science politique, sous la direction d’Yves Déloye et Bernard Voutat .

DE LA MUSIQUE EN POLITIQUE : L’IMPERATIF DE L’INTERDISCIPLINARITE AU SECOURS D’UN OBJET DELAISSE

Author(s): Thibault Jeandemange / Language(s): French Issue: 2/2018

The introduction of marketing in political party strategies has considerably altered the uses and place of music in the way election campaigns are designed and conducted. This publication attempts to revisit the epistemological and methodological issues of political marketing raised by the use and role of music. Why is the interdisciplinary approach to music a relevant tool to revisit the analysis of political marketing by political science?

CULTURE, LANGUAGES AND CUSTOMS IN THE BALKANS SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF WESTERN TRAVELERS OF THE 15th CENTURY

Author(s): Ivayla Popova / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2019

The present study focuses on texts of Western Travelers (Konrad Grünemberg, Pietro Casola, Arnold von Harff, Felix Fabri) and data pertaining to the culture, languages and customs of the Balkan people. Curious details about wedding and funeral customs in the Balkans we can found in the travel notes of Konrad Grünemberg. Arnold von Harff provides valuable data on Balkan languages – Slavic, Greek, Albanian and Turkish, including short dictionaries of these languages. In the travel notes of Western pilgrims and travelers, the ethnic diversity of the Balkans is consistently reflected. The western texts state that the majority of the Balkan population was Christian Orthodox. At the same time, there is interesting information on the minorities of Gypsies and Jews in a suburb of Modon, and their characteristic cultural features are discussed at length.

Различните наративи за село Карлуково

Author(s): Yoana Ivanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 17/2019

The paper aims to show how a current place can be an embodiment of multiple collective perceptions of cultural reality. Karlukovo is a small village in northern Bulgaria and it is very good example for that hypothesis. On the one hand, it is a popular touristic place for its natural gifts – there is a cave nearby, which is a natural phenomenon for its two holes in the form of eyes on the roof of the cave. On the other hand, “Karlukovo” is a stereotype both for “madhause” and for gypsies. The reason for that is the local mental hospital, which is famous around Bulgarians and is known, that it hosts the most difficult psychological cases. Next to it, for several years the Bulgarian media spread information about crimes, where many houses have been robbed. As half of the local population is migrated gypsies, many people thought that gypsies are the offenders (even that this may not be the reality). On third place, the village is a site for the native’s collective memory, which saves myths, family stories, songs, collaborations, festivals, etc. The locals do not support the narrative of the mental house. For them the hospital is outside the village, it is part of the governmental health infrastructure, and it is just a coincidence that its location is close to the village. This makes them struggling with the common stereotype of the mad house. Yet, for the last 2 years Prohodna cave gains popularity and tourism is growing. The common perception of Karlukovo is changing and getting more and more pleasant. All of this shows how a single site can adopt multiple, inconstant and changeable narratives.

„В шепите на Демир Баба“ – наблюдения при премиерата на един нов фестивал

Author(s): Hyulia Ahmed / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 18/2019

The first celebration of contemporary art in the heart of Ludogorie, called “In the Hand of Demir Baba” – literature, music, theater and “something else”, added a new event in the festival calendar of Bulgaria. Organized by young people with the ambition to promote local cultural heritage and disprove the general view of the lack of interesting and entertaining events outside the capital, the festival, as a pilot, promises more meetings with Demir Baba and asks to become an annual event for sharing culture and meeting with interesting people from all over the country.

Българските футболни фенове в чужбина. Случаят Vienna boys

Author(s): Kremena Iordanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2019

This paper is dedicated to the football fans of Bulgarian clubs abroad. The research is a result of ethnographic field study among the community of Bulgarian supporters of CSKA Sofia in Vienna, which is organized in the small fan club Vienna boys. Thestudy of such informal institutions, formed on the basis of common interests andfunctioning among the Bulgarian communities abroad, allows us to enter into thespecific environment and culture of the studied group with its specific characteristics,on the one hand, and on the other – to seek for the place of its participants as a partof another larger community, such as the national one.