Volume 01

Ethnologia Balkanica
Journal of Balkan Ethnology
Zeitschrift für Balkanethnologie
Journal d'ethnologie balkanique

Contents Volume 1/1997

Preface - Vorwort - Avant-propos

1. The Danube - A Bridge of Cultural Interchange

• Cvetena Georgieva, Sofia
  The Danube River
  A Boundary of the Bulgarian Space in the 15th-17th Centuries
• Klaus Roth, Munich
  Rivers as Bridges - Rivers as Boundaries
  Some Reflections on Intercultural Exchange on the Danube
• Tatjana Civian-Mihajlova, Moscow
  The Danube - Symbol of the Mythical Road and a Mythological Frontier
• Dagmar Burkhart, Mannheim
  The River Danube in Balkan Slavic Folksongs
• Marianne Mesnil, Brussels; Assia Popova, Paris
  Les eaux-delà du Danube
• Sabina Ispas, Bucharest
  Danube, You Dustless Highway
• Valentina Vasseva, Sofia
  Adaptation in the Funeral Customs of Resettled Communities
• Margarita Karamihova, Sofia
  Culture Turning its Back on the Big Water

2. Ethnology of Modernisation and Transformation

• Milena Benovska-Săbkova, Sofia
  Tradition as a Means of Survival Under the Conditions of Economic Crisis in Bulgaria
• Clarissa de Waal, Cambridge
  Ground Level Economics in Post-Communist Albania. A Report
• Christian Giordano, Fribourg; Dobrinka Kostova, Sofia
  Bulgarian Land Reprivatization without Peasants
• Karl Kraser, Graz
  Family and Kinship in the Balkans. A Declining Socio-Cultural System?
• Radost Ivanova, Sofia
  Valiant Young Men, Wrestlers, Bodyguards, Thugs ... The Hero in the Bulgarian Daily Press

3. Ethnicity, Identity, and Interethnic Relations

• Bernard Lory, Paris
  Dangers d'ici-bas, promesses d'au-delà.
  Essai d'anthropologie religieuse des Confins bosniaques au XVII-e siècle
• Ivan Čolović, Belgrade
  L'espace ethnique et la mort.
  Essai de thanatologie politique
• Ženja Pimpereva, Sofia
  Traditional and Contemporary Models of Interaction Between Karakachans and Bulgarians
• Svetla Rakšieva, Sofia
  The Nomadic Aromunians' Ideas of a Territory Under Control

4. Reports

• Paul Nixon, Cambridge
  Ideology in Balkan Anthropological Research. Conference of the Association for Balkan Anthropology
• Gheorghiţă Geana, Bucharest
  Notes on Cultural Anthropology in Romania
• Galaba Palikruševa, Skopje
  The Development of Macedonian Ethnology and Folklore
• Tea Škokić
  Review of Ethnological Work in Croatia 1990-1995

Addresses of editors and contributor
Instructions to authors