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Bees in folk belief and practices before and now
Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies, 2023 The article traces changes in human cognitive and social development using the example of the domesticated insect, the bee. From the 13th to the 20th century, forest bee-keeping spread, using live trees as beehives, and later also log hives on the ground.
Mare Kõiva
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Vanished Cultural Landscapes: Rituals of Remembrance for Submerged Bulgarian Villages
Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies, 2023 The article explores the processes of building memoryscapes: a material anchor is a starting point or an integral part of the narrative in order to facilitate communication.
Lina Gergova
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Folk Customs And Beliefs In Kosovo And Metohija Between The Two World Wars
Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies, 2023 The geographical region of Kosovo and Metohija in the period between the two world wars was characterised by traditional societies and a large number of folk customs and beliefs. In my paper, I will deal with the customs and beliefs that marked the daily
Božica Slavković Mirić
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Energy Science &Engineering, Volume 7, Issue 6, Page 2966-2983, December 2019., 2019 In this paper, a thermal‐hydraulic coupled model is put forward to study the heat extraction for Gonghe Basin based on local thermal nonequilibrium theory considering the natural fault. An excellent heat recovery system and reasonable combination of parameters are the premise of sustainable geothermal development.
Jie Zhang, Jingxuan Xie, Han Zhang
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Advanced Physics Research, Volume 3, Issue 12, December 2024.In this work we demonstrate an increase of the density of color centers upon the high‐fluence implantation of MeV N and Mg ions on a hot diamond substrate (>550 °C). Further the results show that, with respect to room‐temperature implantation, the high‐temperature process increases the vacancy density threshold required for the irreversible conversion ...
E. Nieto Hernandez +14 more
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Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies, 2021 This paper discusses female spaces and rituals in two sacred sites in the Albanian-Slavonic borderlands that are shared by Christian and Muslim communities.
Aleksandra Dugushina
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Estonian Prophets of the Twentieth Century
Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies, 2021 Compared to famous Estonian prophets of the eighteenth and ninteteenth centuries who have left a deep mark on culture, prophets of the twentieth century have received less attention. This paper accordingly examines four prophets of the twentieth century:
Mare Kõiva
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The Tatars in Lithuania and Their Ethnohistory
Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies, 2021 This article focuses on the interpretation and re-interpretation of the history of the Tatar community in Lithuania. It is the result of field studies conducted in 2012, 2015 and 2016 and draws the reader’s attention to Tatar ethnohistory, understood as ...
Veneta Yankova
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Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic StudiesThe article focuses on the ethnobotany, analysing the migration of plants that accompany Bulgarians to new destinations. The functions and meanings of these plants are outlined.
Mariyanka Borisova Zhekova
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The Nature of Culture: Rites of Interaction Between Ukrainian Refugees and Latvian Society (2022)
Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic StudiesThe article deals with the challenge in migration studies to find a solution to the problem of how to analyse the rapidly emerging and increasing immigration of Ukraine war refugees, which started in 2022 in Latvia as well as in other European Union ...
Māra Kiope
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