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How a gathering becomes a holiday. Modern social practices of migrants from flooded zones in Ukraine
Łódzkie Studia Etnograficzne, 2022 The article presents the modern practices of remembering sunken Ukrainian villages at annual or periodic gatherings of migrants from flooded areas in various regions of Ukraine.
Iryna Koval-Fuchylo +1 more
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Mythological Names and dróttkvætt Formulae II: Base-Word-Determinant Indexing
Studia Metrica et Poetica, 2014 This article explores patterns of language use in oral poetry within a variety of semantic formula. Such a formula may vary its surface texture in relation to phonic demands of the metrical environment in which it is realised.
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Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies, 2021 The focus of this text is the masquerade tradition in central-west Bulgaria and activities related to its safeguarding and promotion. The essence of the survakar games in the Pernik Region is described, as well as its significance in traditional culture ...
Milena Lyubenova
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Handelman’s Models and Mirrors of Public events or Sinjska Alka as an example of a Mirror-presentation; Malbaša’s Modo Epico [PDF]
In Medias ResStarting from the theoretical concept of models and mirrors of public events, as established by Don Handelman, the above-mentioned text positions these concepts within selected socio-political and cultural examples in Croatia.
Suzana Marjanić
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Narratives about Work in Croatian Celebrity Culture
Traditiones, 2020 This paper is based on research into narratives surrounding the work of (micro)celebrities in Croatia. The analysis comprises written materials dedicated, in various degrees, to different aspects of work as it is performed in Croatian celebrity culture ...
Ozren Biti
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Saint Lucy, the Queen of Light. The Legend and Folklore of Saint Lucy
Traditiones, 2007 The Feast of Saint Lucy is celebrated on December 13 by a girl wearing a white gown and candles that visits a crowded church. This article investigates the senses mentioned in newspaper reports describing this ceremony.
Ulrika Wolf-Knuts
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Bulgarian Men’s Travels to Mount Athos in the Context of the Ritual Year
Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies, 2020 As several monasteries and shrines of the monastic republic Mount Athos are connected with the Bulgarian history, in some cases they function not only as places of religious worship by Bulgarian men but also as sites of national memory. Therefore, placed
Tanya Matanova
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Народная демонология Полесья в контексте восточнославянских традиционных верований
Studia Mythologica Slavica, 2022 Članek preučuje folklorna demonološka verovanja, razširjena na ozemlju Polesja, regije na meji Ukrajine, Belorusije in Rusije. Tradicionalna kultura te regije je zelo zanimiva za etnologe in jezikoslovce najširšega profila, saj ohranja številne arhaične ...
Ľudmila N. Vinogradova
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The Rupite Protected Area, Bulgaria: Construction of a Landscape
Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies, 2023 By examining the different layers and roles of related actors, this study aims to reveal the ways in which the local people view the locality of Rupite in southwest Bulgaria and in which the landscape is constructed.
Violeta Vladimirova Periklieva
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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.Abstract Caste—an ascriptive social hierarchy in South Asia and its diaspora—is a globalized phenomenon. Recent caste‐based discrimination, particularly in technology companies and anti‐caste efforts to address it, has compelled academia, policy, and the technology industry to better understand contemporary mechanics of caste.
Nayana Kirasur, Britt Paris
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