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This book summarises the recomendations and the advices of the famous Bulgarian spiritual teacher Peter Deunov (1864 - 1944) adding some extracts from the traditional medicine.
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Main task of this work has been to examine kin relationships – in their range, content and function – of Vranje family with its extra-family relatives. The Vranje family forms kinship network wich is narrow in its range. Family maintains intimate relations with a small number of relatives, mainly with the nearest kin. Relatives up to the fourth cousins in lateral range, or in vertical range of lineage, are recognized as closer kin and with them the elementary family creates more intensive interaction and stronger connectedness than with genealogically more distant kin. Family interaction with the genealogically more distant kin is reduced to occasional gatherings. Geographic distance between a family and its relatives is an obstacle to intensive contacts and a limiting factor in forming higher degree of kinship connectedness. Low living standard also contributes that contacts among relatives are less intensive. Range, content and function of kin relationships depend upon: family structure, its internal organisation (performance of conjugal roles), situational factors, influence of psychological mechanisms and recognition of certain cultural patterns. The contacts of the Vranje families with their kin are shaped up, to a considerable extent, by traditional patterns of behaviour. Cultural patterns and kinship terminology are the part of kinship system wich change the most slowly. Changes that occur within the kinship system are for the most part structural in their nature, while content of the system is less prone to changes. In solving many of its problems, family relies on kin’s help. Relationships with kin in not limited in their role and importance only to kinship solidarity, but are included in socialization process of an individual. The kin relationships represent important part of social relationships in the modern world and they help in forming of structuralized social reality.
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The book is a digital re-edition of Anton Hangi's book as published in 1907 by publisher »Daniel A. Kajon« in Sarajevo.
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The collective monograph of the works of Wiesław Myśliwski is not the first attempt at a comprehensive conceptualization of the work of the author of „Nagi Sad”. It has been preceded by a series of “anniversary” books published by The Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce as well as monographs by e.g. Bogumiła Kaniewska. The uniqueness and purport of issuing another exhaustive formulation of Myśliwski’s work is justified by, first of all, the importance of this work, and, secondly, the fact that the authors have made an attempt to conceptualize it in a novel way. The book ends with the re-print of the essay by Myśliwski entitled „Kres kultury chłopskiej”, which on the one hand is a text that has been slightly forgotten, and on the other hand many authors of the monograph have made reference to the theses of this very essay. The studies and essays presented in the book attempt at interpreting the complete literary output of the author of „Widnokrąg”, his individual works or motifs from his writing. The most complementary attempt at reading Myśliwski in the volume has been offered by Józef Olejniczak, who in his essay treats the six novels published so far as chapters of an autobiographical project of the writer, and, in conclusion, poses a question about a continuation. It is followed by a study into the presence of WW II in Myśliwski’s work seen as a traumatic experience and at the same time as an attempt of asking definite questions about the role of Polish peasantry in the tragic history of this war. Artur Żywiołek, in turn, analyses „Widnokrąg” from the point of view of “new humanities” and “opens up” the reading of this significant novel for hitherto undescribed philosophical contexts. In a similar way we can characterize the attempt of Tomasz Bocheński – the researcher points out to the interpretative contexts which have not been accounted for so far in the studies on Myśliwski, like, for example, the musicalness of this prose. Wiesław Sedlak describes the authorial subject of Myśliwski as “nomadic”, pointing out to the fact that it is a subject that is in a permanent journey, wandering, walking, which constitutes a reconsideration of the previous convictions about the solely peasant provenance of Myśliwski’s work. Bogumiła Kaniewska and Karolina Wawer reach to Myśliwski’ images of women, assuming various perspectives from the domain of feminist literary criticism and gender studies. Krystian Węgrzynek in his essay is interested in the attitude of Myśliwski towards religion, Karol Maluszczak deals with objects in the worlds represented in the novel as the elements of the material memory of the writer, the “catalysts of his memory”. Piotr Zając writes about the presence of animals in this work, while Antoni Lesiak focuses his interpretation of „A Treatsie on Shelling Beans” on the music motif, on the job of saxophonist performed for many years by the narrator-protagonist, and Paweł Otręba attempts to interpret „Stone Upon Stone” in the light of the Sigmund Freud’s drive theory. Another study, by Wojciech Kuska, is an interpretative attempt at the conceptualization of a dendrologic motif in Myśliwski’s work in the light of the concept of the Linguistc Picture of the World. Jolanta Betkowska, by contrast, demonstrates how a modern media culture devastates the primal peasant culture, in this way commenting on the theses of the essay „Kres kultury chłopskiej” and its consequences present in the novels and dramas of the author of „Ostatnie Rozdanie”. The monograph concludes with three studies on the dramaturgic work of Myśliwski and the theatrical staging of his dramas and novels. Ewa Wąchocka presents an attempt at a comprehensive approach towards the problems, Anna Podstawka focuses on the theatrical adaptation of „Widnokrąg” made by Bogdan Tosza, while Jan Ciechowicz offers a summary of various ways in which Polish theatres have been fascinated by the works of Myśliwski and have adapted them for their own use. The monograph „The Musings of Myśliwski (essays and studies)” aims at presenting the work of Myśliwski in many different contexts, and it also aspires to demonstrate how this work radiates and “influences” on various creative activities of man, such as the theatre, film, music, and the fine arts, therefore the cover features the portrait of the writer painted by Stanisław Baja, and also inside the book there is a drawing of the artist, which is a sketch to the portrait of Wiesław Myśliwski.
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This work consists of 57 chapters in six larger parts; of these six I dedicate three to the history of medicine and doctors in Turkey, to pharmacy and cosmetics, therapeutic baths and hospitals, bungling and folk medicine in all diseases, fever and water cures, epidemics, and finally superstition in the world Medicine; the other three parts deal with love, marriage in Islam, sultanic marriages and weddings, the power of women in the Ottoman Empire, the wedding customs of the peoples in Turkey, the intimate sex life and sexual degeneracy, finally mother and child.
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This work consists of 57 chapters in six larger parts; of these six I dedicate three to the history of medicine and doctors in Turkey, to pharmacy and cosmetics, therapeutic baths and hospitals, bungling and folk medicine in all diseases, fever and water cures, epidemics, and finally superstition in the world Medicine; the other three parts deal with love, marriage in Islam, sultanic marriages and weddings, the power of women in the Ottoman Empire, the wedding customs of the peoples in Turkey, the intimate sex life and sexual degeneracy, finally mother and child.
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The Kommission für Volksdichtung was founded in 1966, in Freiburg, Germany, to bring together ballad and folk song researchers from around the world for the International Ballad Conference. Since then, at meetings throughout Europe, ballad and song scholars have met to present their work and to learn something of the host country’s traditions. The 45th such conference was held in Prishtina, Kosovo, in 2015. This volume is a proceeding from the conference, with some of the materials published in Albanian and English. It is a collaborative publication of the Institute of Albanology in Prishtina, as the host institution of conference, and the Kommission für Volksdichtung.
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This monograph deals with a genre of children’s literature (literature for children and young adults) – the contemporary authorial fairy tales published between 2000 and 2020 in the Czech Republic and in Bulgaria. Using a comparative method and analysis of the works, the monograph follows the development shifts in the genre of authorial fairy tale in both national literatures. The work is selective, focused on the most distinctive types of authorial fairy tales. The division of the monograph into four parts (folklore-influenced fairy tales, diary and calendar fairy tales, lyricized and rhythmic fairy tales, humor and nonsense fairy tales) tends to be more orientational and approximate thanks to the mixing of different literary genres.
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The monograph presents and reflects the results of a specific research project of the same name (MUNI/A/1423/2018) carried out by a team of academic staff and students of the doctoral program of the Department of Music at the Faculty of Education, Masaryk University. The folklore song scope represents an important didactic basis, permeates music education at elementary, partly also secondary schools and specialized instrumental or singing education at elementary art schools. Due to the influence of multilayered cultural expressions and the influence of multimedia means, however, the question of how to present the musical and folklore heritage to school youth is more prominent. The object of investigation was the application of folk music to school education.
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The pieces in this volume are real experiments, since they attempt to interpret a scientific work or book, to outline the work or career of a colleague, to formulate a scientific and/or public problem in a sharp but preferably not offensive way, and yes, they can also be a condensation attempt to outline and summarize one's own scientific ars poetica. The genres of this condensation attempt are reviews, critiques, peer reviews, discussion papers, newspaper columns, diary entries, study pieces, book reviews of study value, tributes and obituaries, in short, this volume is truly a collection of gentlemanly mischief. What binds them together, apart from the author himself, is the broad framework of ethnography, folklore and cultural history, European ethnology and museology, dialectology and religious ethnography, and the vast virtual professional and friendly circle of their practitioners.
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In this study, it is aimed to present the source of animal figures in Turkish art and mythology, their mythological meanings and the branches of art in which they are applied, by adding a contemporary interpretation to the figures that will inspire, adapting them to clothing designs, ensuring their sustainability and the up-to-date use of cultural elements in the field of fashion and textile. Within the scope of the study, it is understood that the phenomenon of mythology and animal style have a great influence in Turkish art. Animal figures used in Turkish Art and mythology during the Hun, Göktürk, Uyghur, Seljuk and Ottoman periods; It has been applied in art fields such as stone, wood, metal, miniature, tile and weaving. Legendary animals such as double-headed eagle, dragon, phoenix (simurg), griffin, siren, sphinx, clay were frequently used in Turkish art, which has grown and developed from past to present. It is seen that the meanings attributed to the mythical (fantastic) animal figures are shaped by religious beliefs, legends and epics. These mythological animal figures contain qualities such as protection, guiding as an element of fertility, and benevolent. In Turkish Art, animal figures were used less frequently than plant and geometric motifs. In the historical process, the works of mythical animal figures such as the emerald phoenix, double-headed eagle, dragon, sphinx, siren, griffin and clay, which are animal figures in Turkish art and mythology, have been examined in detail by considering their meanings. Designs have been prepared by considering textile surface arrangement and decoration techniques such as animal figures, clothes, digital printing on garment complements, sequin-bead embroidery, embroidery, applique, needle felt. 30 computer-aided designs consisting of clothes, shawls, bags and neck collars were made using emerald phoenix, double-headed eagle, dragon and sphinx figures.
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The publication presented to the reader is the result of a collaboration between sociologists from the University of Lyon II and the University of Lodz. However, recognized rural sociologists representing the academic centers of Warsaw, Krakow and Torun were invited to work jointly. The analysis of the social problems of rural areas in contemporary French and Polish societies arises both from the importance of this structural element for the two countries and from the desire to continue the long tradition of cooperation. The volume opens with texts evoking the main trends in long-term research undertaken in the rural environment, both in France and in Poland. Then there are synthetic presentations of the dynamics of the social structure in rural areas of Poland between 1991 and 2015, as well as the social problems of peri-urban areas in France. The following texts present an empirical dimension of the quality of life of Polish farmers in the era of globalization; and address the transformation of neighborhood relations in French rural communities located in peri-urban areas. Then, innovative activities of NGOs within local socio-spatial structures; as well as the transformations of folk culture in central Poland, are presented. The volume ends with a text devoted to the analysis of civic participation of residents of rural areas in Poland and France based on data from the European Social Survey. The texts brought together in this monograph concern the current social situation in France and Poland, seen from the perspectives of territory, social structure, culture and life organizations.
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The book is an attempt to reflect on changes in the image of Poland, its inhabitants and Polish culinary traditions in Israeli collective memory, which, for the last few years, have taken place under the influence of entertainment and leisure tourism from Israel to our country in terms of memory studies methodology: travelling memory and media induced memory. Sample questions posed during the analysis of particular media are, among others: What is the purpose of emphasizing the possibilities of undergoing contrasting experiences related to the memory of the Holocaust and entertainment in contemporary Poland? What rhetorical strategies are used by the authors writing about gastronomic offer in Poland to overcome the narrative of disapproval of the cuisine of Polish Jews? How is Poland described in tourist sources during periods of tension in Polish-Israeli relations? In the subsequent chapters the author shows how memory patterns, established in Israeli collective memory, provide language, metaphors and cultural images for a relatively new experience of Israeli leisure tourism in Poland.
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Autorka prezentuje miejsce roślin, kwiatów i ziół w polskiej (i wschodniosłowiańskiej) kulturze ludowej w perspektywie kulturowo-ekologicznych sieci relacji: kobieta–roślina. Symbolika i zastosowanie roślin analizowane są w ścisłym związku z miejscem kobiet w życiu społecznym i rodzinnym wsi, a także w systemie wierzeń i obyczajów. Tak więc są rośliny „dziewczęce” (kalina, wiśnia) i panieńskie (ruta, rozmaryn, barwinek), ale też „męskie” (chmiel), bywają również rośliny o ambiwalentnym charakterze (groch). prof. dr hab. Izabella Bukraba-Rylska Studium Orzechowskiej stanowi dobry przykład rekonstrukcji „ludowych ontologii” w perspektywie oryginalnej i płodnej poznawczo – ekologii kulturowej. Zagadnienie to postawiono w pionierski sposób, tzn. scalono je w ramach „ludowego obrazu świata”, „chłopskiego światoodczucia”.prof. dr hab. Roch Sulima Autorka wykazuje, że stosunek chłopów do świata roślinnego świadczy o ich rozległej wiedzy na temat roślin, a zarazem o postrzeganiu roślin w sposób mistyczny i symboliczny. W ludowym uniwersum rośliny obdarzone były autonomią i mocą sprawczą, objawiającą się pomocą w ludzkich troskach, ale również aktami zemsty za ich złe traktowanie. dr hab. Paweł Chmieliński Sara Orzechowska – dr, etnobotaniczka, zielarka, folklorystka, badaczka interdyscyplinarna. Studiowała na kierunkach dziedzictwo kulturowe i przyrodnicze (Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie) oraz kulturoznawstwo (Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu). Jest dyplomowaną fitoterapeutką i towaroznawczynią zielarską. Jako prezeska Fundacji Linnum organizuje warsztaty i realizuje projekty, m.in. „Na len, na konopie! Słowiańskie święta roślinne”.
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This book presents summarized results of the work on a research project entitled Life transitions in the (self-)transforming village: memory, identity, inheritance, funded by the National Science Foundation of the Ministry of Education and Science in the period of 2019 to 2024. Thе book reflects both the multidimensionality of the project’s problematic and the many faces of the Bulgarian village as a research object. The transformations in the Bulgarian village are explored through the transforming biographical and life experiences of its inhabitants. Our approach includes building an interdisciplinary methodology based on ethnological and anthropological methods, grounded theory and socioanalysis of self-inheritance. People living in the Bulgarian village are a heterogeneous group, composed of individuals with different biographical experiences, life strategies and everyday practices. Our research allowed us to see the different people we interacted with – young retirees, returnees, village citizens, digital villagers – as figures of transformation, who provide us with a different perspective on the socially active population in Bulgarian villages and on the ways in which they adapt their social experience accumulated in different social and biographical times and places, transforming times and places and becoming a driver of change in them.
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The book is the result of several years of research at the University of Silesia carried out under a grant from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (No. 11H 18 0068 87) titled Polish Ethnographic Atlas – scientific development, electronic data catalogue, publication of resources on the Internet, stage II (2020–2024) and the activities of the Ethnographic and Anthropological Research Team (2024–2028). The authors of the study are ethnologists dealing with the cultural heritage of the Polish countryside, at the same time carrying out digitisation projects aimed at popularising ethnology and cultural anthropology on the Internet. The researchers combined their experiences in a joint project, resulting in a comprehensive study on the specifics of the work currently being carried out on the Polish Ethnographic Atlas. The book may be useful for researchers more broadly interested in cultural heritage issues, mainly ethnologists, folklorists, museum professionals and enthusiasts of rural culture.
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