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”.

 Editor: Albena Georgieva

Table of contents:

Rachko Popov – Bulgarian Ethnology in the Transition Period.

Ilia Iliev – Western Anthropologists and Balkan Ethnographers: Notes from the Periphery.

Nikolay Nenov – Local Communities and the Social Involvement of the Ethnographic Museums.

Nadezhda Marinchevska – National Character and Folklore in the Distorting Mirror of Bulgarian Animated Cinema.

Rossitza Guentcheva – Bulgarian Mosaic.

Evgenia Troeva – The Capital of the Past: St. Athanasius Monastery (Zlatna Livada Village, Chirpan Region) between Myth and History.

Ivaylo Markov – The Transformation of a Religious Site. The Rock Church of St. Petka in the Town of Tran: between the Religious Cult and the Tourist Attraction.

Iva Kyurkchieva – Amateur Football – Identity and Memory.

Kremena Iordanova – “Don’t Underestimate the Girls... Some of them are More Genuine Ultras than You”.

Vanya Zhekova – “What is Fatmagül’s Guilt?” Ethnology at the End of the Workday.

REVIEWS AND COMMENTS

Ivaylo Markov – Ethnographic Problems of Traditional Culture. Vol. 9. Ed. Anatol Anchev. Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Academic Publishing House, 2012.

Elka Bakalova – Albena Georgieva. Folklore Dimensions of Christianity. Oral Narratives and Local Religiosity in the Regions of Bachkovo Monastery Dormition of the Holy Mother of God and Hadzhidimovo Monastery St. George. Sofia: Prosveta, 2012. 

Anelia Kassabova – Ethnographic Problems of Folk Culture. vol. 10. Ed. A. Anchev. Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Academic Publishing House, 2013.

Evgenia Troeva – Vihra Baeva. Miracle Stories. Local Tradition and Personal Experience. Second revised and updated edition. Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Academic Publishing House, 2013.

Ivaylo Markov – Anna Krasteva. From Migration to Mobility: Policies and Routes. Sofia: New Bulgarian University Publishing House, 2014. 

Elya Tsaneva – Dzheni Madzharov. Function and Semantics of the Ritual Gesture in Hungarian Culture. Sofia: Gutenberg, 2014.

Nikolay Vukov – Dobrinka Parusheva, Lina Gergova (eds.). The Ritual Year 8. Migrations. The Yearbook of the SIEF Working Group on the Ritual Year. Sofia: Paradigma, 2014. 

Anelia Kassabova – Mariyana Piskova. ‘The Heroes of Shipka’. An Archival Reading of a Film on the Russian-Turkish War (1877–1878) from the Time of the Cold War. Blagoevgrad: ‘Neofit Rilski’ University Press, 2015.

Rachko Popov – Svetoslava Toncheva. Through the New Spirituality of the Twentieth Century (Anthroposophy, White Brotherhood, Unified Teaching). Sofia: Paradigma, 2015.