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Counter-urbanization and “return” to rurality? Implications of COVID-19 pandemic in Bulgaria [PDF]
Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU, 2021 The studies of the movements between the city and the village generally (especially in Southeastern Europe) refer to analyses of the processes of urbanization, and rarely focus on the so-called counter-urbanization. However, over the past decade,
Pileva Desislava, Markov Ivaylo
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On how religions could accidentally incite lies and violence: folktales as a cultural transmitter [PDF]
, 2020 Folklore has a critical role as a cultural transmitter, all the while being a socially accepted medium for the expressions of culturally contradicting wishes and conducts.
Ho, Manh-Toan +10 more
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Journal of Folklore and Popular Culture, 2022 Petya Bankova is Associated Professor in the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (Sofia, Bulgaria).
Petya Bankova, Vihra Baeva
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Automatic Detection of Dates in the Corpus of Diaries
Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications, 2022 This paper deals with the automatic detection of dates in a corpus of digitized, hand-written diaries in Latvian. Date detection is an important step in processing diaries’ corpus, as it allows to split the source texts by dates of entries and carry ...
Haralds Matulis +2 more
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Hiied vee veerel. Pärimuse ja maastiku kujundikeelest looduslikes pühapaikades [PDF]
Mäetagused, 2022 In addition to religious content layers, the word hiis (holy grove) seems to express also certain features of a natural landscape. The article discusses the issues concerned with the location of hiis areas as well as their meaning.
Mari-Ann Remmel
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Honouring and Losing Knowledge: Folk Medicine Collection of the Estonian Museum of Hygiene in the Early 20th Century [PDF]
Acta Medico-Historica Rigensia, 2016 Before the Estonian Museum of Hygiene was founded in 1922, a medical student, the later director of the Museum, Voldemar Sumberg (1893–1965), published an article Rahwa-meditsiin ja arstiteadus (Folk medicine and medical science) in the popular ...
Ave Goršič
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Who are Our National Heroes beyond National Borders?
Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies, 2021 The focus of this article is on monuments to national heroes built at the initiative of the Bulgarian nation state, political party or migrant community beyond the national borders. Three analytical perspectives are presented: geographical, cultural
Lina Gergova, Yana Gergova
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Transborder Commemoration Routes and Rituals
Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies, 2020 L. Gergova, V. Voskresenski, Y. Gergova (eds.). Sofia: Paradigma, 2019, 262 pp.
Ekaterina Anastasova
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A Study of Some Heritage Artifacts Based on Alabaster Stone in Ancient Egyptian Art
Journal of Architecture, Art & Humanistic Science, 2021 Alabaster stone (alabaster) or calcite, which is the geological name of transparent alabaster, as it is formed from crystallized calcium carbonate, and it is white, or white color tilted to yellow and the thin sectors are transparent, some things with ...
Ammal Hamdy Asad Arafat +1 more
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Elava rahvalaulu juurde jõudmine: Herbert Tampere teadlaseisiksuse kujunemine [PDF]
Mäetagused, 2022 The article analyses the life and activity of Estonian ethnomusicologist and folklorist Herbert Tampere (1909-1975), as well as the research history of Estonian folk songs until 1945, also paying attention to the influence of the Estonian Folklore ...
Taive Särg
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