Table of contents:

To authors and readers

Petko Hristov – Tradition and identity under the conditions of the European transborder mobility.

Anelia Kasabova – Themes and methods in ethnology. A (self) critical reflection.

Elya Tzaneva – The Russian science of tradition in its historiographical retro- and perspective.

Nikolay Papuchiev – Folklore in the modern age: between art and pop culture (methodological problems).

Anatol Anchev – Why was Ivan D. Shishmanov a follower of the comparative history method?

Galin Georgiev – The tradition through the eye of the ethnologist today in the con­text of the relationship Diaspora-Metropolia (Based on materials from the Bulgarian community in Bessarabia).

JUBILEE

Elya Tzaneva – The 60th anniversary of Prof. Anatol Anchev.

Representative publications by Prof. A. Anchev.

MUSEUMS

Andrey Tonev, Anita Komitska – Exhibition “The 120th anniversary of the National Museum”. 

REVIEWS AND COMMENTS

Rachko Popov – The Bulgarian trace in the anthropological research of catastrphes. Disasters and Cultural Stereotypes. Ed. ElyaTzaneva with Fang Sumei and Edwin Scmitt. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle, 2012.

Ivanka Petrova – Ana Luleva, Evgenia Troeva, Petar Petrov .The forced labour in Bulgaria (1941-1962). Memories and eye witnesses. Sofia, 2012.

Evgenia Troeva – Anatol Anchev. The shadow. Sofia, 2011.

Galina Lozanova – Maria Markova. Food and eating: between nature and culture. Sofia, 2011.

SCIENCE LIFE

Ivanka Petrova – IEFSEM-BAS in 2012.

Evgenia Troeva – Round table „Holly places in Sofia and Sofia region: narrative traditions and practices of pilgrimage “ (IEFSEM-BAS, 15-16 November 2012).