Papers by Miglena Ivanova
Българска етнология, 2019
Cultural and Historical Heritage: Preservation, Presentation, Digitalization
Both UNESCO and EU have their own understandings, priorities, practices and politics related to t... more Both UNESCO and EU have their own understandings, priorities, practices and politics related to the safeguarding of cultural heritage and of the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) in particular. Nevertheless, recently one could not but mention the notable increase of the number of their co-operative initiative to these ends. The paper discusses some of them that are related to the ICH. Special attention is paid to the co-operative efforts for the promotion of ICH among the widest possible audiences and in particular among children and teenagers.
Culture Crossroads
The article is based on the analysis of fieldwork studies of the local graffiti and street art pr... more The article is based on the analysis of fieldwork studies of the local graffiti and street art production in Sofia, Bulgaria. The author argues that at present the majority of the graffiti writers there tend to produce TTP graffiti following the global graffiti tradition and taking into consideration its conventions and heritage. As a result of that the meaning of the local TTPs and street art is quite clear and understandable to the foreign TTP writers, to the majority of the young people in the city as well as to a growing group of connoisseurs. The rest usually see in the same writings either strange art or nothing but scribbles, oddly deformed letters and unclear symbolic images. The article interprets the processes of mutual understanding or misunderstanding which contribute to the creation of new types of coherences and differentiation in the local urban milieu.
Many inscriptions, drawings and paintings on the Berlin Wall appeared on its western side in the ... more Many inscriptions, drawings and paintings on the Berlin Wall appeared on its western side in the period between the 1960s and the 1980s. Later, when the Wall ceased to exist, a lot of new and sometimes quite different graffiti were written on some of its replicas. All these images are nowadays often re-used to signify both the former presence of the Wall and its Fall. Yet, they appear to be poorly-studied. The present article aims at analyzing some of the specifics of these images and at revealing their strong power. The author also interprets them as an important precedent opening unexpected possibilities for legitimating graffiti production as a type of imagery capable of signifying human presence and attitude and, at the same time, of representing a city, an idea or a key historic event.
The paper presents our work in progress on the scholarly project Local Production, Clothing, and ... more The paper presents our work in progress on the scholarly project Local Production, Clothing, and Language Treasure (Contribution to Historical Linguistics and Anthropology of Dress), whose main aim is to study and to edit in an electronic form a little-known archival massif of handwritten documents from 1888 and 1889 preserved at the Scientific Archives of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The documents include 1077 handwritten pages with descriptions of clothing, as well as some photographs made for the illustration of certain data. In its entirety the massif presents in a synchronous cut the territory of Bulgaria in the period shortly after the RussianOttoman war of 1877-1878 and the restoration of the independence of the country. The interpretation of the data from the documents, which are mainly related to local ways of dressing requires voluminous work – paleographic (the documents were written in different handwriting and are sometimes illegible), historical (history of langu...
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Papers by Miglena Ivanova