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Issue 3 / 2016. Gift, Offering, Donation. Issue Editor: Elya Tsaneva

Table of contents:

Elya Tsaneva – Foreword 

Galin Georgiev – The Paradigm of the Gift: a View to the Scientific Concepts, Trends and Schools in Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology 

Petia Bankova – The Value of the Gift or the Price of the Present. 

Su Faxiang, Wang Yuewei (China) – Sacrifice, Gift and Prayer: A Sacrificial Ritual of Offering to Mountain God in an Amdo Tibetan Tribe.

Maxim Mikhalev (Russia) – On the “Urban Shamanism” and the New Purpose of the Shamanic Gifts in the Consumer Society.

Tania Boneva – Gifts and Hospitality. 

Milena Marinova – The Offering in the Weddings in Bulgaria from the Mid-20th Century to the Early 21st Century. 

Nguyen Thi Phuong Tram (Vietnam) – The Areca Nut as a Gift and Object of Sacrifice.

Anni Kirilova – The Donations to the Scientific Archive of IEFSEM. 

MATERIALS

Valentina Sharlanova – Two New Orthodox Christian Churches in Sofia. Is Donation Alive Today?

Elena Bugarcheva – The Work of the Archivist on the Processing of Valuable Archival onations (Stock 2072 „Hristo Vakarelski“ of the Central State Archive). 

Tania Mareva – Gifts from the Generations (Contemporary Aspects of the Public Donation in the Villages of Momchilovtsi and Levochevo, Smolyan Region). 

MUSEUMS

Petar Kardzhilov – The Exhibition „Aprons and Nature“ – Culture and Nature for Green Economy 
Hristina Grozdanova – „The Gift”: Exhibition of the Regional History Museum – Sofia .

REVIEWS AND COMMENTS

Valentina Sharlanova – Iliya Troyanov, Ranjit Hoskote. The Flowing Down. The Road to All Cultures. Siela, 2011.

Galin Georgiev – Between Past and Present. Culture of the South Karnobat Villages in the Early 21st Century. Ed. G. Georgiev. Burgas: 2015.

Ventsislav Bozhinov – Lilyana Kovacheva. „INNERMOST WORLD. Festive-Ritual System of the Roma People in Central Western Bulgaria“. Sofia: Prosveta, 2015.

Evgenia Troeva – Elya Tzaneva. Ethnosymbolism and the Dynamics of Identity. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2015.

Authors in the issue