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Bulgarians in Slovakia

Ethnocultural characteristics and interactions

Nataliya Rashkova, Vladimir Penchev

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Year of Publication: 2005

Cover Type: Hard

Category: Cultural-Historical Heritage and National Identity

Edition: First Edition

Pages: 320

Format: n/a

Language: Bulgarian

Summary

The pages of this book contain a small part of the documentation of a comprehensive ethnological and folkloristic study of the Bulgarian community in Slovakia. It responds to the growing need to learn more about Bulgarian communities abroad in recent years and fits into the context of research on Bulgarians in Central Europe—the Czech Republic, Hungary, Austria, etc. After specialists from the Institute of Folklore explored the possibilities for fieldwork and conducted preliminary studies, a research team carried out a month-long expedition to 33 Slovak villages with a Bulgarian presence in order to accomplish its scientific task: to establish the parameters of Bulgarian identity and its expression, the processes of adaptation and interaction in a foreign language environment, the dynamics of changes in the composition and ethnocultural characteristics of Bulgarian settlers from different generations and migration waves.

About The Authors

• Nataliya Rashkova: Ethnomusicologist, Doctor of Arts, Associate Professor at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore with the Ethnographic Museum at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences; university lecturer in ethnomusicology and musical folklore. She has worked as a leader and participant in 22 research projects in the field of ethnomusicology, anthropological musicological research, the study of local ethnocultural and musical traditions, cultural identity, collective memory, migration processes, Bulgarian communities abroad, ethnological research, intercultural interactions. She has many years of experience in field ethnological research in Bulgaria, Hungary, Slovakia, Turkey. She has published over 120 scientific studies and articles at home and abroad.
• Vladimir Penchev