Интонационни модели на двугласно пеене от с. Брезница, Гоцеделчевско (По материали от съвременната брезнишка попрèлка)

Author(s): Petyo Krastev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2019

Poprelka in the village of Breznitsa, Gotse Delchev Region is an event deeply related to the tradition as far as its model and content are concerned, but at the same time it represents the contemporary condition of the local culture. This is the place for the performance of the well-preserved, “living” traditional musical folklore in the natural environment. The article is an attempt to typologize the intonational models of women two-part singing in Breznitsa, which is interesting because of the still existing specifics of the ancient musical thinking in the present. The scholarly research on which the article is based was provoked by fieldwork observation allowing for the accumulation of detailed knowledge about the processes of development and change thus functioning as a key to the understanding of the immanent specifics of the traditional Bulgarian culture.

Тесалия в средновековната българска история

Author(s): Tervel Popov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2020

The article examines the Bulgarian political and ethnic presence in Thessaly during the Middle Ages. Thessaly is part of the early medieval Bulgarian Tsardom for short periods yet this helps to establish Bulgarian ethnic consciousness among part of Slavic population in the area. There are data in various sources for Bulgarians in Thessaly in the 11th – 15th centuries, who participate in local riots and internecine struggles.

В новите броеве на списанията на издателство „Аз-буки“ четете

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2020

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Жизненият свят на гагаузите от град Ямбол. Част първа: преселване и адаптация, групи и граници

Author(s): Galin Georgiev,Dinka Angelova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2020

In the focus of the present study is that part of the so-called Edirnes’s or ThracianGagauzes who in the period after the Balkan wars settled in the town of Yambol and whose new location fully corresponds to one of the characteristic features of these people (especially of the groups in the Balkans) – urban manners, clothing, way of life. Thus, it is particularly important to study, this time in the context of the national state, the place and role of the town with its specific environment as a factor in the formation and restructuring of the collective memory of the Gagauzes; in the development of their communal strategies for survival and adaptation; as well as in their relations with other ethnocultural groups in Yambol, the public and cultural institutions, etc. All this will be studied through several emblematic life stories. However, their representative character and, to some extent, their exclusiveness is not only due to their instructive and factological value. The process of search, registration and study of each case, as well as their interrelations, are also of significance.

Етнопредприемачество сред руската общност в България

Author(s): Tanya Matanova,Vladimir Penchev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2020

Ethnic entrepreneurship is a peculiar mechanism for manifestation of ethnocultural identity and a specific resource for the preservation of cultural heritage. The topic is relatively unexplored in Bulgaria but the authors have experience in its study in general. The article attempts to clarify the terminology related to the problem and systematizes and typologies the manifestations of Russian ethnic entrepreneurship in the country. Thus, on this basis as well as with the help of the fieldwork interviews and the research of Internet publications devoted to owners of various Russian entrepreneurial structures and their staff (Beryozka and similar retail stores as well as representatives of various types of individual businesses) the study searches for and finds (or does not find) manifestations orientated towards preservation of the Russian cultural heritage in the Bulgarian social environment.

Външни трудови миграции на ромите – спасение от бедността и акумулиране на нов социален опит

Author(s): Ivanka Abadzhieva-Ivanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2020

The Roma people joined the general migratory flows a bit later than the other ethnic groups; however, the mobility patterns and routes do not differ significantly compared to those of the rest of the population. For the Roma communities, this is one of the few opportunities for employment. For the present, the financial transfers help break the vicious circle of unemployment – poverty – lack of education in the sending communities, which circle many families have entered. Along with better financial security, migrants bring back new ideas and knowledge which stimulate social development in the encapsulated neighbourhoods. The crossing of the physical borders symbolically destroys the mental boundaries of the communities. The stress is put on the opening to the world which creates opportunities but leads to two main risks: complete dependency on labour mobility and loss of human capital(brain drain) in the Roma communities; this could hinder the processes of social development at a later stage.

От „роднински срещи“ до „пазаруване“: динамика на взаимоотношенията между граничните региони на Петрич, Р. България, и Струмица, Р. Северна Македония

Author(s): Violeta Periklieva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2020

The article presents a case study of a particular part of the Bulgarian-North Macedonian border – the border regions of Petrich, Republic of Bulgaria, and Strumica, Republic of North Macedonia. The study is focused on the level of everyday experience. Its aim is to study how in their everyday life and transborder experience the people from the border regions adapt to the changing border regime and do this alter their“traditional” forms of contact. After the setting of a state/political border between the regions of Petrich and Strumica, the people adopt a pragmatic approach to this border and the life in the context of borderness. The pragmatism in the transborder contacts is not a particular form of relations rather one of their features which expends its range and significance in the course of time. The various layers of relations transform into tools for solving pragmatic issues in everyday life in the border regions, i.e. the pragmatisation turns into a peculiar form of adaptation to the border. At the same time, the pragmatic attitude towards the border rearranges to a certain extent the different layers of the traditional relations putting the family, kin, friend and cultural ties aside. Nevertheless, as long as they function as tools for solving pragmatic issues, they remain and revitalize.

Прескачане на препятствия

Author(s): Maria Neikova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2018

The text deals with the mutual influences – the infestations – between different parts of the world in the newer stages of its development. Answers are sought to questions from different levels of analysis: from the point of view of Bulgaria, as а former socialist state, whether for 28 years could be outdated the past nearly 45 years; from a global perspective, how the self-awareness of young states, former colonies, reflects on the general development of the world; from third part – can the historical justice be restored, and if the answer is positive – to what extent. "Where" in the subtitle refers to ideological, historical, value, self-consciousness and self-determination connotations.How does the colonial history of Western European countries relate to the present? How the filling of the white spots of the past is superimposed on the claims of (Western) Europe, which advocates the myth of itself as more civilized, more liberal, more tolerant. With a number of examples is argued the power of ideological influence, which is difficult to overcome by historical science and even more difficult by the media. The thesis is also about the "restoration of the historical justice".A little more than 25 years after 1989, we are trapped in a trap set by ourselves as humanity: against the backdrop of a suppressed and unknown history that has developed mainly Eurocentric to almost the present day, decades of strong ideological influences, controversial morality, wick allows a lot of money from western companies and individual PR consultants to work to polish the images of modern dictators – we cannot find out which news about / from the world are true and which do not.

Икономика, общество и национална идеология: нов поглед към възрожденския Пловдив

Author(s): Svetla Yaneva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2020

Уебинар „Стопански предпоставки за формирането на българския политически елит (по примера на братята Евлоги и Христо Георгиеви)“

Author(s): Kirila Atanasova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2020

Address Unknown: Reshaping the Jewish Living Space and Social Mobility in the Slovak State (1939–1945)

Author(s): Michala Lônčíková / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2020

Social mobility is a relatively common phenomenon in society; however, in the period of the Slovak State (1939–1945) it was predominantly caused by the economic and social engineering of the single ruling Hlinka’s Slovak People’s Party. Anti-Semitism was made one of the main pillars of the internal state policy. Systematic pauperisation of the Jewish community gradually affected each perspective of everyday life of Jews in Slovakia, including the limitation of Jewish people’s living space. This practice led to involuntary moving out from houses and flats in designated urban zones. Subsequently, this process culminated in the Aryanization of the housing formerly owned by Jews. The main aim of this contribution is to analyse spatial and social consequences of the reshaping of the Jewish housing opportunities with special interest in the entangled social mobilities of both Jews and Gentiles, which will be mainly exemplified through selected cases from the Banská Bystrica district.

Заслугата на учителя от края на ХІХ век за описването и изучаването на българските диалекти

Author(s): Maria Mitskova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2020

The following article offers a different perspective on the Bulgarian dialectological researches from the late 19th century. Its main aria of interest focuses not just on the importance they have for exploring and learning the diversity of the vernacular from the above-mentioned time period, but also deals with their practical application in the educational process from the late 19th century. The article addresses the first attempts on implying dialectological methods as a component of mother tongue education and Bulgarian language teaching, as well on the first known initiatives to organize extracurricular language practices together with senior-class students by collecting dialect material in accordance with the educational content. It highly praises the merit of mother tongue teachers from the late 19th century regarding the description and collection of the then Bulgarian dialects.

Българският XIX век: нови архиви и прочити

Author(s): Vera Boneva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2020

MASTERING OF THE SPACE IN THE HINTERLAND OF THE TOWN OF EDIRNE: CONTINUITY AND CHANGES (14th-16th C.)

Author(s): Stefan Dimitrov / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2020

This article examines and analyses the degree of succession among the settlements which existed in the pre-Ottoman and the Ottoman period in the northern hinterland of the city of Adrianople /Edirne/ in the period of 14th – 16th century; the changes in their status which occurred after the establishment of the new Ottoman authority and the demographic development changes of the Muslim and non-Muslim population in the settlements. The present survey highlights three settlements – Skutarion, Bukelon and Provaton which in the Middle Ages were part of a group of castles protecting Adrianople from the North. After the conquest of the Balkans and their inclusion into the Ottoman military – administrative system their status changed and the three castles were transformed into centers of administrative units. Our conclusions draw on the achievements of contemporary historiography and on information, found in unpublished Ottoman tax registers from the collections of the Ottoman archives in Istanbul (Başbakanlık Osmanlı Arşivi).

“THE BULGARIAN SALONICA”

Author(s): Yura Konstantinova / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2020

The Balkan Wars put an end to the Bulgarian presence in Salonica, but not to the Bulgarian imagination relative to the city. Almost until the second decade of the 20th c. Ottoman Salonica used to be a bigger, richer and more modern city than the Bulgarian capital. It evoked much feeling and interest among Bulgarians, who saw in it many economic, political and cultural opportunities. For Bulgarians, however, Salonica was primarily linked with their freedom fighting, so its image is dominated by themes of death and self-sacrifice, of fear and courage, of prisons and concentration camps. To them it is simultaneously a city of prisons and a city of light, a city of youth and nostalgia, of education and pogrom, of economic opportunity and wasted effort.

ON THE PAST, MEMORY, RECOLLECTIONS AND HISTORY OF THE BULGARIANS IN “SIMVASILEVUSA”

Author(s): Malamir Spasov / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2020

In the past one feels at home. One comes from that home, where the ones before him are, to go back one day and become one of them, a home for those that are to come. Think of it, that home is in one and one is that home. That’s why the past is cozy. Our awareness of the past is rooted in memory. Memory permeates all aspects of our life. Even our present is largely dedicated to memory, insofar as we spend a great part of it in fortifying our ties with the past. Our memory of the past is an indispensable condition for our sense of identity. We need the collective memory, i.e. the recollections of others, in order to affirm our own recollections, and in this way give them value. The opposite is also fully true, for life is fundamentally dialogical and the discovery of self is unthinkable without the others. If memory and history are processes penetrating the past, the vestiges of the past would put one on the track of processes that have produced that past. Often such traces are sparse, which makes them all the more valuable. Sometimes a few old photographs are the only remnants that have remained in place of one’s roots. In other cases only recollections replace places left long ago. Well, such places don’t have to be outstanding in order to be unforgettable. For many Bulgarians Salonica is just that kind of place. But Salonica is not some ordinary, unremarkable and insignificant city.

MITOLOGICA HEROICA (I): ГРАМАТИКА МИТА О НАХОДУ СИМЕУНУ

Author(s): Đorđe N. Kebara / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 69/2019

В этой работе мы представим терминологическое дистинктивное значение понятия „мифологика”, учрежденного французским антропологом Клодом Леви-Строссом. Понятие „мифологика” будет интерпретироваться в контексте странствующих мифологических мотивов, присутствующих в коллективном бессознательном (брошенный ребенок, герой-подкидыш, герой совершающий инцест, миф о рождении героя, культурный герой). Надстройка „героика” относится к героям сербской героической народной поэзии и мифологическим моделям, с которыми они были объединены. Следовательно, методом работы является сравнительный мифоанализ древной поэзии. Предметом будут модели и вариации, общие для античной, средневековой и сербской народной поэзии. Цель работы – показать, как эти мотивы развиваются с точки зрения сербского устного творчества. Тема относится к мотиву „брошенного ребенка”, а в связи с двумя песнями о Находе Симеуне, которые были собраны Вуком Стефановичем Караджичем.

Човешката коса в културата на Древна Тракия

Author(s): Miroslav Izdimirski / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Issue: 25/2020

In the analysis suggested, I make an attempt first and foremost to gather in one place all evidence on the function and meaning of human hair in Thracian culture. Human hair, save for being a biological factum, is an object of impression in human culture, i.e., it is a unique cultural phenomenon. I consider written evidences on the specific Thracian hair-do, as noted by the ancient authors, as well as the evidence according to which Thracians were red-haired. I pay attention to the archeologic findings of human hair in ancient Thrace, to visual evidences about hair-dos and colour in human hairs, as well as some folklore evidences on treatments of human hair, precisely as the object and subject of human culture.

Религия, многообразие и взаимодействие по тракийските земи – примерът на еврейската общност в района на Филипопол (1–4 в.)

Author(s): Mina Tasseva-Bencheva / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Issue: 25/2020

During the I–IV centuries AD, religious diversity became one of the key features of the Graeco-roman world, as attested by literary evidence from the period and supported by a series of modern studies. Coexistence and interaction between various cults in the Empire, along with their understanding of the gods and the sacred, contributed to shape the specific culture of the period. The paper intends to examine some aspects of this culture through the example of the Jewish community in region of Philippopolis (modern Plovdiv). The existence of the Jewish community in the region of Philippopolis during the first centuries of the Roman Empire is attested by a group of inscriptions as well as the excavation of a building identified as a synagogue. This evidence is well known and it is currently being supplemented by new studies. However, few of them have focused specifically on the subject of the interaction between this community and its milieu. By exploring this subject, the paper contextualizes the community and brings a clearer image of its life, its understanding and expression of the sacred and its possible interactions with other religions on Thracian land.

Международна научна конференция „Всекидневният живот в средновековна България“

Author(s): Elena Kostova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6/2020