TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Miglena Ivanova – From the Issue Editor.

Margaret Dimitrova – Archival Document Containing Descriptions of Traditional Costumes in Tran Region in 1888.

Iva Stanoeva – Types of Folk Costumes from the Region of Sofia Found in an Archival Document from 1889. 1. Samokov and Sofia Districts. 

Delyan Rusev – Ethnicity and Demographics in North-eastern Bulgaria through the Lens of the Provincial Administration at the End of the Nineteenth Century. 

Miglena Ivanova – Between Specifics, Stereotype and “Adoption” of the Clothes of the Other. 

Yana Yancheva – Growing Fibrous Hemp and Production of Hemp Fibres in the 1950s. By the Example of the Village of Mezdreya, Montana Region. 

PROJECTS

Iva Kyurkchieva – From Idea to Implementation – An Exhibition about People and Laces. 

MUSEUMS, EXHIBITIONS, GALLERIES

Elka Mincheva – The Sacral Magic of Lace Knitting. „Who Makes and Uses Lace“ Exhibition, National Ethnographic Museum, February 7 – 20 May 2019.

REVIEWS AND COMMENTS

Valentina Sharlanova – Franco Cardini. „Islam is a Threat! False!” Sofia, 2018. 

Albena Georgieva – Éva Póch (Ed.). The Magical and Sacred Medical World. Newcastle upon Tyne, 2019. 

ACADEMIC LIFE

Elka Mincheva – International Conference “Pastoralism: Traditions and Modernity. Anthropological, Ecological and Social Aspects” – IEFSEM, February 25 – 26, 2019. 

IN MEMORIAM 

Mirella Decheva (1958 – 2019).