Year XXV, Issue 6, 2017<<Archive>>
Еditoriаl
Viеw Ovеr thе Bаlkаn Pеninsulа
PATRONS AND CLIENTS. BULGARIAN EXAMPLES AND BALKAN PARALLELS OF THE LATE XIX AND EARLY XX CENTURY
Although belonging to the corporate tradition of the Ottoman Empire, the relationship between patrons and clients continue to play a role in modern Balkan countries. This article presents and analyzes examples of this vertical type of social networks in order...
patronage; clientelism; networks; political elite; Bulgarian politics
THE FATHERLAND FRONT AND THE EARLY SOCIALIST EVERYDAY LIFE: FOOD, ECONOMIC AND PUBLIC MOBILIZATION, SELECTION OF RELIABLE ELEMENTS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF NATIONAL DEMOCRACY
The article attempts to outline the role of the Fatherland Front for the political regulation of socialist everyday life in Bulgaria in the first years after September 9, 1944.
The Fatherland Front; socialism; everyday life; People’s Republic of Bulgaria
Civilizаtion Boundаriеs
POSTSOCIALISM AS A FERRIS WHEEL (Political-gerontological Essay)
The article presents the first results of a pilot study in the field of social gerontology. The key features of two groups of retirees in the post-socialist period (a metropolitan city – a small town), derived from radically opposite families (communist elite...
social gerontology; post-socialist period; political influence; anthropology
ABOUT THE LONG ROAD OF ETHNOLOGY TO SCHOOL
The article in general follows the path of ethnological science in Bulgaria in order to highlight the changes in the discipline at the level of university readings. In brief, the path of the discipline is presented from the bottom up - from the collection of...
ethnology; intercultural education; empathy
Nаtionаl Idеntitiеs
LIFE STORIES, BORDER REALITY AND POLITICAL CONJUNCTURE
Political reality often changes human life. It gives opportunity to make unchangeable choice. Life on the border or between two borders sometimes becomes a habitual event. The dynamic transformations in human life are presented through the prism of the pers...
identity; life story; refugee; political conjuncture
AGAIN ABOUT THE TRADITIONAL BULGARIAN CLOTHING
The article focuses on the “translation” of the language of clothing, which is characteristic of Bulgarians in modern language. The accumulated knowledge allows us to try to read the “language of clothing” as “our” ancestors “speak” and “write”. In order to...
folk costumes; traditional clothing; ritual practices
Rеgionаl Studiеs
LIVING IN THREE STATES: CHANGES IN AGRICULTURE AND EVERYDAY LIFE OF THE VILLAGERS FROM NORTHWESTERN BULGARIA
In this paper I briefly investigate the impact of three types of state agricultural policies on rural households in Valchedrum region, North West Bulgaria. I argue that the state remains a key factor, capable to transform the local economies, identities, and...
state agricultural policies; socialist Bulgaria; local identities
REFLECTIVE PICTURE OF THE SOCIAL INCLUSION OF VULNERABLE ETHNIC COMMUNITIES AND GROUPS IN BULGARIA (On the example of the educational institutions in the municipality of Straldzha)
The study examines the contributing moments in the scientific work of Assoc. Prof. Vesselin Tepavicharov, DSc., concerning the approaches developed and approached by him for education in a multiethnic environment. Data from a survey conducted in educational...
social inclusion; education; ethno-psychology; ethno-pedagogy; social reflexive anthropology; empirical theoretical models for intercultural education