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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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Nature For Protection, Nature For Profit
Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies, 2023 We proceed from the understanding that humans are part of ecosystems, therefore, nature provides people with ecosystem services. At the same time, however, different social actors can perceive and evaluate the same place in totally different ways.
Desislava Pileva, Ivaylo Markov
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Kohapärimuse roll keskkonnakonflikti diskursuses: Paluküla hiiemäe juhtum [PDF]
Mäetagused, 2022 This article is a critical study of how local place-related narratives, i.e., place-lore, is integrated into environmental discussions. Place-lore reflects the cultural and ecological dimensions of collective environmental experience; for example, what ...
Lona Päll
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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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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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TOWARD A DEFINITION OF FOLKLORE IN CONTEXT
Folklore Concepts, 2020 proliferation. The German Volkskunde, the Swedish folkminne, and the Indian lok sahitya all imply slightly different meanings that the English term "folklore" cannot syncretize completely.' Similarly, anthropologists and students of literature have ...
D. Ben-Amos
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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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The Folklorization Hazrat Hussein And The Event of Kerbela
Türk Kültürü ve Hacı Bektaş Velî Araştırma Dergisi, 2021 The events that took place in the triangle of Muharremlik, Karbala and Hz.Huseyin these are a new product of folk literature that we call religious folklore. Religious folklore is among the modern sciences such as religious anthropology, phenomenology of
Fuzuli BAYAT
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On the Path of the Buddha – Specifics and Distribution of Buddhism in Bulgaria
Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies, 2018 The article deals with an unexplored topic in Bulgarian anthropological context – the distribution and specifics of Buddhism in Bulgaria. It aims at providing information about the penetration of Buddhism in the country and the state of the Buddhist ...
Svetoslava Toncheva
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