Theme of the Issue

NEW FESTIVITY 1

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Daniela Koleva – New Festivity: Introduction.

Ivaylo Ditchev – The Feast as a Media. 

Milena Marinova – New Festivity and its Incorporation into the Local Celebrations (as Exemplified by the Towns of Vratsa, Sliven and Stara Zagora). 

Slavka Karakusheva – The Memory Practices in the Town Fest of Dzhebel. 

Grigor Grigorov – Roll-Call Ceremony in Bulgaria: Structure, Symbolism, Functions. 2. The Ceremonial Scenario as a Narrative.

DISCUSSION

Discussion – Archives in the Museum. 

Vanya Yordanova – The Experience of ‘Stoyu Shishkov’ Regional Museum of History in Establishing and Maintaining Scientific Archives. 

Mariyana Piskova – Charents Museum of Literature and Arts, Yerevan. A Good Practice of Archive Accessibility in a Museum. 

Iveta Pirgova – The Museum Archive. 

Tsvetana Manova, Methodi Kanchev – Preserving Family Memory and / or Complementing National Archive Funds.

MUSEUMS, EXHIBITIONS, GALLERIES

Simeon Nedkov – “Times and People. Living Traditions of Bulgaria” – the Long-Expected Representative Exhibition of the National Ethnographic Museum. 

REVIEWS AND COMMENTS

Evgenia Troeva – Yelis Erolova, Magdalena Slavkova. Etnichnost, religia i migratsii na tsiganite v Bulgaria [Ethnicity, Religion and Migrations of Gypsies in Bulgaria]. Sofia, 2013. 

Lyubomir Ognyanov – Plamena Stoyanova. Tsiganite v godinite na sotsializma. Politikata na bulgarskata darzhava kam tsiganskoto maltsinstvo [Gypsies in the Years of Socialism. The Bulgarian State Policy towards the Gypsy Minority] (1944–1989). Sofia, 2017.

Bogdan Dichev – “Ludite, ludite – te da sa zhivi!” Anatol Anchev. Vitsove za ludi, sadisti i kanibali [“The Mad, the Mad – God Bless them!” Anatol Anchev. Jokes for Mad People, Sadists and Cannibals]. Sofia, 2017. 

ACADEMIC LIFE

Desislava Pileva – International Scientific Conference “Uses of the Past in Eastern and Southeastern Europe in Modern and Contemporary Period”.