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Publications of the Texas Folklore Society

open access: yes, 2017
Volume of Texan and Mexican folklore, including stories about hunting, folk medicine, ballads, religion and other folklore.
Texas Folklore Society   +1 more
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Marriage migrants in Bulgaria - aspects of social adaptation [PDF]

open access: yesGlasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU, 2019
This article is based on first-hand ethnographic data and focuses on two cases of bicultural, bilingual and cross-national couples of Bulgarian women and their migrant husbands (an Egyptian and a Filipino).
Pileva Desislava
doaj   +1 more source

Encountering ‘Broken’ Public Services: Defiance and Disaffection at the Frontlines of the Democratic State

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The apparently parlous state of public services in advanced liberal democracies has become a hot topic, nowhere more so than in ‘broken Britain’. Indeed, there is much debate in both politics scholarship and political rhetoric about the nature and causes of this decline, and its potential remedies. All perspectives are at pains to characterise
John Boswell
wiley   +1 more source

Refugee integration in Bulgaria: Conditions and challenges [PDF]

open access: yesGlasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU, 2019
Between 2013 and 2016, the inflow of Middle Eastern refugees to other European countries increased sharply. Their transit migration through Bulgaria was determined by their preliminary intention to settle in countries with a higher standard of ...
Erolova Yelis
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Divine Self‐Placement, Sacred Placemaking: The Virgin of El Rocío and Territorial Custodianship in Early Modern Spain

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This essay argues that the Rocío hallazgo legend employs divine self‐placement to turn territorial uncertainty into sacred stewardship. The Virgin's miraculous refusal to move establishes the marshlands of Las Rocinas as a communal religious site, transforming a marginal and legally ambiguous area.
Adriano Duque
wiley   +1 more source

New Goods and New Habits: Cleanliness as a Class Marker and the Making of the Peasant Homemaker, Sweden 1850–1910

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The article examines what cleanliness, that is, hygiene and tidiness, meant for landowning farm households in the county of Härjedalen in the inland of northern Sweden from the 1860s to the 1910s. The period is characterised by a growing understanding of bacteria and of how infectious diseases could be prevented through improved hygiene ...
Marie Ulväng
wiley   +1 more source

Publications of the Texas Folklore Society

open access: yes, 1997
Volume of twenty-one essays about folklore in Texas, including essays about police burials, railroads, graffiti, folk music, dance halls, and other folklore.
Texas Folklore Society   +1 more
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Bulgarian Folklore Studies and the Formation of National Identity and Culture. The Contribution of Georgi Sava Rakovski

open access: yesTraditiones, 2011
This article presents the work of Georgi Sava Rakovski (1821–1867), one of the most outstanding, well-rounded, and interesting personalities of the Bulgarian Revival.
Valentina Ganeva-Raycheva
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Intellectual Property Restitution

open access: yesThe Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
In Europe, open GLAM movements and cultural restitution reforms are overlooking a crucial aspect that should not be underestimated: what should happen to the archival materials, digital collections and intellectual property that are indelibly linked to cultural property.
Andrea Wallace, Mathilde Pavis
wiley   +1 more source

The Slavic Idea and the Origin of Bulgarian Folklore Studies

open access: yesTraditiones, 2011
This paper presents various concepts of Slavic ethnic and cultural identity and their influence on the formation of knowledge about the Slavs in ethnography and folklore studies, including the impact on the Bulgarian lands. The origin and the development
Vladimir Penchev
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