Bilateral kinship and biogenetic substance in the Balkans. The case of Voyvodovo, Bulgaria (1900-1950)

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Bilateral kinship and biogenetic substance in the Balkans. The case of Voyvodovo, Bulgaria (1900-1950)

Original language description

This contribution focuses on the concept of kinship in Voyvodovo, the village of Czechs and Slovaks in north-western Bulgaria in 1900-1950. The author shows to what extent Voyvodovo villagers insisted on the putative biology in their construction of kinship, and analyzes their notions of kinship that oscillated between patrilinearity and bilaterality. The data are based on a long-term fieldwork (2006-2015) with the Voyvodovo villagers, and on the analysis of genealogy, archive materials, parish registers, and native &quot;family chronicles&quot;. The focus of the text lies in the analysis of the flexibility of the bilateral (cognatic) kinship, which still possesses some patriarchal and patrilineal bias. The emic perspective of kinship on the part of the Voyvodovans is put into a wider context of anthropological study of kinship, especially in Europe and in the Balkans. The text shows that Voyvodovo kinship, despite being placed in the Balkans in the first half of the 20th century, does not easily fit into the theoretical frame of the &quot;Balkan family pattern&quot;, based on patrilinearity and emphasis on agnatic ties. Apart from this, there was a different view of affines, and a complete absence of ritual kinship and other kinds of &quot;artificial&quot; kinship in Voyvodovo, that have been reported in other Balkan communities in the same period.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50404 - Anthropology, ethnology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Ethnologia Slovaca et Slavica

ISSN

1335-4116

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Volume of the periodical

41

Issue of the periodical within the volume

leden

Country of publishing house

SK - SLOVAKIA

Number of pages

24

Pages from-to

27-50

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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