За групата анархисти-емигранти, действала в района на с. Павел баня, Казанлъшко, през 1953–1954 г. (по документи от ДА – В. Търново)

Author(s): Lora Doncheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2013

Important place in modern historiography takes the issue of political repression and forms of resistance against the imposed communist regime in Bulgaria in the period of 1944-mid-50s of the twentieth century. The problem studied in this report focuses on participants in the group of anarchists – immigrants, acted in the region of Pavel banya, Kazanlak, at the end of 1953- the spring of 1954. The statement, based on the studies in CA-V. Tarnovo documents attempts to clarify the reasons which prompted the three anarchists (Hristo Nestorov, Doncho Karaivanov, Miliu Ivanov) to take risky action for the return to Bulgaria to participate in the resistance against the regime, to reveal new details concerning the organization missionto be presented perspective of the only survivor (D. Karaivanov) for reasons for the failure of the case started. The information in accessible documents give reason to conclude that the lack of consistent, of clear and decisive position of emigrant union to actively participate in the fight against communist rule in Bulgaria is the catalyst that accelerates the decision of three of them to explore other possibilities for the realization of the goal – return to the country and organizing a common resistance against the existing communist regime. The absence of objective information about the situation in Bulgaria among immigrants, and the weaknesses and gaps in the organization of return anarchists determine the failure of the group.

Институционалните механизми като регулатор в сферата на монументалните изкуства през социалистическия период

Author(s): Anelia Aleksandrova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2013

Numerous State Institutions have established a National programme for new advance in the development of Bulgarian Architecture and Art Synthesis until 1990. In that programme, some particular measures for the realization of certain institutional requirements have been set up. A uniform art policy has been implemented for the construction of architectural sites, for the formation of architectural environment and accomplishment of art synthesis, as well as for the establishment of the look of towns and villages. For the accomplishment of Art Synthesis, a complete system has been established for planning, funding and conducting creative cooperation between architects and artists in producing pieces of Art tightly related to the architectural environment. That leads to a complete policy in ordering and producing Monumental Art works. Through the means of Art Synthesis the ideological and educational task of Muralmonumental Arts is completed and the artistic taste of man is shaped up. All those mechanisms for producing Monumental Art works during the Socialism period are aimed at the accomplishment of pieces of Art of high aesthetic and emphatic ideological impact in architectural environment.

Държавна намеса в личния и културен живот на българските турци в годините на комунистическия режим

Author(s): Iliyana Gancheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2013

After World War II, defeated Bulgaria was left in the Soviet sphere of influence and controlled by the left coalition dominated by the Communist Party. From 1944 to 1947, the new government paid particular attention to the Bulgarian Turks to distinguish the line of the previous cabinets and to gain the support of this population, which in their social characteristics is a part of the social base of a left government. After this period a drastic change began in the policy towards the Turkish population. It was reported that tolerating and enhancing its cultural and religious characteristics led to its closure, isolation and alienation that was dangerous for the unity of the nation and of the country. The article presents this form of repression associated with the encroachment on cultural characteristics and identity of Bulgarian Turks in an attempt to modernize their lifestyle by removing the external signs of religious differences in clothing and family rituals and the emotional significance of these changes for them. All these measures have acquired sense for the Muslims as a cultural and historical boundary between their traditional lifestyle and the modern times.

Състояние на изследванията на свети места, поклонничества и религиозен туризъм в България

Author(s): Margarita Karamihova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2013

The article dwells on the contemporary state of art in holy shrines and pilgrimage studies. The author examines the main theoretical approaches developed by Bulgarian and Western academic traditions. She argues that the dominant western tradition is centered mainly on Catholic pilgrimages, therefore the widely accepted terminology cannot explain in an adequate way the events and processes related to Bulgarian (Balkan) pilgrimages. Several working hypotheses are offered.

Градоустройствен и архитектурен облик на град Плевен през ХV–ХVIII век

Author(s): Mladen Vasilev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2013

This topic focuses on some facts about the existence and development of the town of Pleven in the period between 15th and 18th centuries that are little known and unpublished so far. The appearance of the town and its urban space is a demonstration of the allotment between the three main ethno-confessional communities – Eastern Orthodox, Muslim and Jewish. The article focuses on the discovery of the remains of St. Georgi monastery in Kaylaka Park near Pleven which was destroyed by the Ottomans in the late 18th century and the yet undiscovered exact location of St. Nikolay Mirlikiiski in the Ottoman Pleven Municipality.

Матей Преображенски - “забравеното светило на българската революция”

Author(s): Dragomir Georgiev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2013

The article examines the revolutionary activity of Matei Preobrazhenski. There is a lot of evidence that confirms the thesis that Father Matei was the adjutant of Georgi Rakovski and a close associate of Vasil Levski, the Apostle of Freedom. The article reveals the crucial role Matei Preobrazhenski – Mitkaloto played in the creation of the structures of the Internal Revolutionary Organization.

Демографски измерения на еврейското етническо присъствие в България през периода 1878–1946 г.

Author(s): Shtelian Shterionov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2013

Към общата характеристика на българския антисемитизъм (1879-1944 г.): бележки и съображения

Author(s): Nikolay Prodanov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2013

Теренното етноложко иследване като фактор при определяне и изява на идентичност (по материали от експедициите на екип от ИЕФЕМ-БАН сред българите от Украйна и Молдова)

Author(s): Galin Georgiev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2012

The article presents the results from a long term fieldwork held in Bessarabia and Tavria. It aims to register local culture and to explore identity markers of the Bulgarian and Gagauzian diaspora. The main focus of the article is the influence of the research in the diaspora communities. The author comments on the reflection and the dynamics of the image of ‘true Bulgarian’ language, customs, etc. in diaspora communities.

Kриза и гурбет в постсоциалистическия период (по материали за бесарабските българи)

Author(s): Sonya Sredkova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2012

The article presents ethnographic data concerning temporary labour migrations of Bulgarians from the diaspora. Migrations to “the old fatherland” are the special focus in this study.

Элементы материальной культуры через призму гагаузского песенного фольклора. Фольклор как историко- этнографический источник

Author(s): Elizaveta Kvilinkova / Language(s): Russian Issue: 1/2012

The article presents the results from a detailed study of Gagauzian folklore. The author reads songs as a source of information about the everyday life, occupation, traditional peasant dresses and rituals practiced in pre-soviet times.

Автохтонното население на Мароко – берберите – основен носител на местното обичайно право. Етапи в процеса на признаване на правото му на самоопределение

Author(s): Kamen Donchev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2012

The article explores customary law of different Berberian tribes. The author stresses on the dynamics of customary law because of the influence of the dominant juridical system in the state.

Родство по сватовство и по кумство при циганите (по данни от теренни проучвания сред няколко цигански групи в Централна Северна България)

Author(s): Zdravko Zdravkov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2012

The article explores the ritual kinship of several Roma groups in Central and Northern Bulgaria. The author presents differences and similarities between groups and social structures, with a special focus on the changes caused by marriage (the role of godfathers and godmothers, bilateral networks, etc.).

Календарни турлашки празници

Author(s): Anuta Kamenova-Borin / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2012

The Turlaks, or Torlaks, are believed to be an old native population inhabiting the Northern border zone between Bulgaria and Serbia. They speak a specific dialect of Bulgarian, and have preserved their old traditional folk culture. The article presents their autumn-winter holidays. The most celebrated holidays in the autumn are St. Dimitar’s day, Mishin day, St. Archangel Michael’s day, Mratintsi. The most celebrated holidays in the winter are St. Andrey’s day, Ignajden, Christmas Eve, Christmas, New Year, Vasil’s day, Jordan’s day, Ivan’s day, Grandmother’s day,St. Trifon’s Day.

Съвременен поглед към хайдут Велко Петрович (1780–18.06.1813)

Author(s): Mariana Yovevska / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2012

The paper traces Haiduk Velko Petrovich’s life on many levels: as a hero from the First Serbian Uprising and a handsome man, as a commander of a haiduk’s detachment, a commander of a squad of several thousand horsemen and a husband of two wives, as a participant in the new Serbian administration. His image and the respect that Serbia and Bulgaria had for him are also commented on. His contribution and importance as well as his role in the decisive developments at the beginning of the 20th century as a haiduk with the irreconcilability and riotousness of a free person are pointed out. The paper traces the sources for haiduk Velko, the cultural memory, the way people remembered him and the first publications on him. The author adopts the working hypothesis that the influence of his memories and the stories about his heroic life after 1868 were of great significance for the formation of Levski’s new liberation strategy – preliminary preparation and the assignment of greater importance to the local committees.

Аналитичнопсихологически подход към нестинарството

Author(s): Ana Stefanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2012

According to the concept of analytical psychology, the experience of the sacred and the mythological thinking are not stages of the development of man and mankind, but are components of the psyche, universal and inheritable. Most of the authors, working in different fields of science, support this statement. With the development of the conscious, with the running of history a new individual kind of culture develops. The archetype, as “an organ of the soul” finds expression in different forms and creates the core of different phenomena, universal in space and time, despite the variations in details. Not only the expressed form, but also the dynamics of the psyche have universal parameters, expressed in every human activity, because the psyche finds objectivation in it.

Баянията в с. Медовец

Author(s): Shevket Eskedjiev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2012

The article explores traditional alternative cure of different diseases. Author presents the way of transmission of knowledge about spells and cure. He reveals differences in believes related to education of sorceresses between Bulgarian and Turkish groups.

Донесение швейцарской полиции о преследовании болгарских коммунистов в Фрибурге 1919 года

Author(s): Dalibor M. Elezović / Language(s): Russian Issue: 1/2011

The article dwells on the persecution of Bulgarian communists and other foreigners by the police in Fribourg in February and March 1919. The Federal Prosecution ordered the police force in the city to persecute the suspicious foreign residents, especially those who were suspected of spreading communist ideas. Among those who were subjected to persecution were the Bulgarian communists Kanderev, Mitev and Belchev who were considered to be a threat to the national security. Citizens of Austria, Soviet Russia, and of other European countries were also subjected to prosecution.

Приватнi книжковi зiбрання у контекстi бiблiотечної етнологiї (на прикладi польської спiльноти Подiлля другої половини ХIХ – початку ХХ ст.)

Author(s): Tatyana Karoeva / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 2/2011

The purpose of this paper is to describe the specifics of the private collections of books, such as the Polish community Podolie in the late nineteenth – early twentieth century in the context of librarian ethnology. The basis of the sources of this study is a department of rare and valuable editions of the regional scientific library in Vinica, which houses over 35 thousand books, some of which are books that have been nationalized in the post-revolutionary times by the Polish Assembly.

Мистичните братства на хетеродоксните мюсюлмани в религиозния живот и конфесионални отношения в Румелия през ХV–XVI век

Author(s): Krasimira Moutafova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2011

Based on published and unpublished Ottoman documents, narrative sources and results from terrain researches of the author, an attempt is made to be followed the place and role of the mystical brotherhoods of heterodox Muslims in religious life and confessional relations in Rumeli during the 15th–16th centuries. On the basis of the local centers of religious life are outlined the correlations of these brotherhoods with the central authority and local population during the establishment of the Ottoman rule on the Balkans and in the new socio-political conditions and social atmosphere during 16th century. Special attention is paid to the role of the so-called uthraquistic (dual sanctuaries) in the confessional relations between Christians and Muslims in urban and rural patriarchal environment.