Theme of the Issue

ETHNOLOGY OF THE HEROIC

Table of contents:

Nikolai Vukov – Introduction.

Nikolai Nenov – Traces of Heroic Time: The Angelushevo Water Source and “Radetzki” Steam Boat.

Konstantin Panayotov – Borimechkata – Myth, History, Folklore. 

Svetla Kazalarska – Historical Reenactments of the “Heroic Time”. 

Grigor Grigorov – Roll-Call Ceremony in Bulgaria: Structure, Symbolism, Functions. 1. Basic Symbolic Acts and Ceremonial Mise-en-scène. 

Iskren Velikov – Transforming Places of Memory – the “Monuments” Locality near the Town of Svishtov. 

Maria Angelova – “The Post-Mortem Fate” of Hristo Botev from the Viewpoint of the Sites of Memory. 

Reneta Roshkeva – Revolutionaries’ Weapons in Bulgarian Museums as Heritage. 

MUSEUMS, EXHIBITIONS, GALLERIES

Elka Mincheva – “Greetings from Italy,” or what Postcards Tell About. 

REVIEWS AND COMMENTS

Ognyan Kovachev – Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Sofia, 2017.

Kristina Dimitrova – Milena Kirova, The Heroic Body. History and Manliness in the Jewish Bible. Sofia, 2017.

Nikolai Vukov – Simona Vidmar (Ed.). Heroes We Love. Ideology, Identity and Socialist Art in the New Europe. Maribor, 2017. 

Lozanka Peycheva – Nikolai Vukov, Svetla Kazalarska, Iglika Mishkova (Eds.). The Museum beyond the Nation. Debates in Museology. Sofia, 2016. 

ACADEMIC LIFE

Zlatina Bogdanova – International scholarly conference “Between the Worlds: People, Spaces, Rituals”.