I Sedakova
Biographic Data
| ID | 17519 |
|---|---|
| NAME | I Sedakova |
| GIVEN NAMES | I |
| FAMILY NAME | Sedakova |
| SIGNATURE | SEDAKOVA I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Slavic Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9252-5407 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
On the Enrichment of the Bulgarian Anthroponymicon: Borrowings, Word-Formation, and Name Creativity
The Bulgarian anthroponymicon, as a multifaceted and dynamic system, is continually reshaped by both external and internal influences. This article draws on an extensive body of anthroponymic material sourced from archival and published records, as well as data collected by the author over recent decades in Bulgaria. The analysis identifies and describes several distinct strategies for the enrichment of the Bulgarian anthroponymicon. A substantia…
A Game with or without Rules: 15Th Congress of Société Internationale d’Ethnologie et de Folklore (Sief)
The review of the 15th Congress of Société Internationale d’Ethnologie et de Folklore (SIEF) distinguishes major trends in the development of anthropology, ethnology, and folklore which are characterized primarily by a bigger extent of interdisciplinarity, involvement of adjacent disciplines, politization, and socialization of the traditional spheres of scholarly interests. The SIEF Congress was meant to take place offline in Helsinki, Finland, J…
Õpetaja mälestuseks
The renowned philologist Nikita Tolstoi promoted revolutionary ideas not only in Russian but also in the worldwide Slavonic studies. He, together with Svetlana Tolstaia, established the Moscow school of ethnolinguistics, the methodology of which is becoming increasingly topical, covering novel themes, and the number of researchers working in this field in different countries grows year by year. The 100th birth anniversary of the academician insti…
Bulgarian Conference on the Ethnology of Socialism: The Senses in Everyday and Festive Life
This review offers analytic information on the interdisciplinary conference held in Bulgaria (with participants from Northern Macedonia, Russia, Germany, India) on the socialist period as perceived through the fi ve senses. All the papers took into account relevant binary oppositions such as “self — others”, “socialist — capitalist”, “holiday — everyday life”, “home — offi ce space”, and “Bulgarian — Turkish”. There were many papers dedicated the…
Foreword. Strategies of Interbalkan Communication and Translation
This is a foreword to the collected volume “Strategies of Interbalkan communcation: Translation” (Centre of Linguocultural Research Balcanica. Proceedings of Round Tables. 7). Translation in the research of the Moscow School of Balkan Linguistics is interpreted in the wide semiotic sense, that is, not only as transformation of texts with the means of another language code, but also as semiotic transition between various codes of the Model of the …
Folk Terminology of the Balkan and Slavic Christian Orthodox Feasts: The Danger of Translation
The article combines methods of ethnolinguistics, Balkan studies, and translatory studies with the aim to analyze the translations of the folk Christian terms of feasts and other facts of the traditional culture. The study of the ways the East-Slavonic calendric term Vtoroj (Second) Spas ʻTransfi guration’ from the Boris Pasternak’s poem August is translated into seven Balkan and South Slavic languages (compared to two English translations) is su…
Bulgarian Anthroponym as a (Balkan) Text
This article considers a proper name as a text: as a linguistic, semiotic, sociocultural, and ethnographic ‘narrative.’ The author assumes that the anthroponymic space in modern Bulgaria is a live environment which is permanently developing and transforming. The environment that retains archaic patterns while adding new ones, combining the tendencies for unification and individual diversification. The analysis of the name system shows a significa…
Bulgarian Conference on the Ethnology of Socialism: Five Senses in Everyday and Festive Life
The International Online Conference “Socialism Through the Lens of the Five Senses” was organised between 3rd and the 4th of March 2022 by the Center for Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology of St Cyril and St Methodius University of Veliko Turnovo (hereinafter VTU) and the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (hereinafter IEFEM)
Emily Lyle’s Jubilee
On December 19, Dr Emily Lyle, Honorary Fellow at the Department of Celtic and Scottish Studies, in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, University of Edinburgh, celebrated her ninetieth birthday. Emily is a prominent folklorist, a researcher of ritual calendars, myths, astronomy, and cosmology, a semiotician and a typologist, a connoisseur of Scottish folklore and culture, just to mention a few of her fields of interest. To honour …
Rules and Norms, Freedom, and Regulation: The 15th Congress of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (Sief)
The review of the 15th Congress of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF), one of the first virtual events of such a scale, highlights modern tendencies in anthropology, ethnology, and folklore. The authors of the review observe the growing interdisciplinarity, the use of adjacent disciplines, and the politization and socialization of the traditional academic research. The Congress's eighteen streams included topics customary…
Calendric Feast Bans and the Punishment for Violating Them in the Bulgarian Traditional Culture
The paper offers an interdisciplinary ethnolinguistic and semiotic analysis of the Bulgarian calendric prohibitions and the consequences of violating them. Special attention is paid to linguistic data - the chrononyms which characterize these days as ambivalent, both blessed and malevolent, days which must be observed as work-free and free from other types of activity. Folk etymology of some terms for holidays reveals how language constructs the …
Ritual Rules in Changing Circumstances: Break, Adapt or Maintain? An Introduction
This issue gathers some of the works presented by the members of the Ritual Year Working Group during the 15th Congress of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF) in Helsinki in June 2021. As the general theme of this congress was 'Breaking the Rules? Power, Participation, Transgression', most of the articles stick to this question and try to understand the relationship between rituals and (the breaking of) social rules. The a…
When a Crisis Opens New Academic Perspectives: The New Webinar Series of the Sief Ritual Year Working Group
For over 10 years, the academic journal Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore has regularly published news on the activity of The Ritual Year Working Group (RY WG), a group of international scholars with shared interests in ritual activities, customs and festive celebrations throughout the yearly calendric cycle, an affiliate of the International Society of Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF - Société Internationale d'Ethnologie et de Folklore). Thi…
Towards the Jubilee of Todor Boiadzhiev
The article depicts the scientific path of the corresponding member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Professor Todor Boiadzhiev, who, on 11 November 2021, celebrated his 90th birthday. His academic life is mostly associated with Sofia University, “St Kliment Ohridski”. The major publications in dialectology, phonetics, grammar studies, lexicology, and stylistics by T. Boiadzhiev are outlined. Of special value are his books on the grammar of …
Dictionary of Macedonian Traditional Culture by Liljana Makarijoska in the Context of Current Slavic Ethnolinguistic Lexiсography
This review sheds light on the glossary and structure of the vocabulary entry (the defi ni- tion of the headword, examples, cross references) in the “Dictionary of Macedonian Traditional Culture” (Skopje, 2016; 564 p.) by Liljana Makarijoska. The dictionary is com- pared with other Slavic lexicographic publications of similar type, based on Bulgarian and all-Slavic folk traditions. The author chooses dialectal words from the vocabulary of materia…
Folklore, Ethnology and Beyond, from the 14th Sief Congress in Santiago de Compostela
The article focuses on the main trends in development of ethnology, folklore and cultural anthropology as represented at the 14th congress of International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF). The Congress’ main theme Track Changes: Reflecting on a Transforming World attracted scholars of many adjacent disciplines like sociology, history, economics and politics. The modern turn from rural studies and folklore genres towards gender, body, mi…
Traditional and Non-Traditional Values in Russia, Bulgaria and Slovakia: Ethnolinguistic, Comparative and Historical Dimensions
The article embodies some results of a joint international research project on linguistic and ethnocultural dynamics of traditional and non-traditional values in the three countries of the Slavic world. First, the terminology in Russian, Bulgarian and Slovakian languages is analyzed, with the outcome that the term ‘value(s)’ as denoting an abstract notion is a recent development in Slavic languages. Second, the notions of the traditional and non-…
Unlived Life: The Death and Funeral of a Child in Slavic Traditional Culture
This ethnolinguistic study based on the analysis of the archival and field data from various Slavic traditions gives an account of the reasons, meaning, and folk comprehension of untimely death - that of a child. Such a tragic event is seen as a result of intricate reasons: God's will, the fate, the verdict of the Fates, parents' ban on the rules, and lack of veneration of the saints, black magic, the evil eye, curse, etc. The amalgamation of Chr…
Axiology in Comparative Studies (The Notion of ‘Life’ in Russian and Bulgarian Languages)
This article scrutinises the axiological parameters of the notion of ‘life’ in Russian and Bulgarian languages on the grounds of lexicological and folklore data. Comparative analysis of the two related yet distant languages, Russian and Bulgarian (with regard to the Balkan character of the Bulgarian language), is aimed at the detection of common and differing attitudes towards values in general and for the ascertainment of language evaluative pot…
Urban Festivity: Theory and Practice, Tradition and Creativity
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Clothes as Symbolic and Magic Objects in Slavic Childbirth Customs
The paper analyzes the practical, symbolic, and magic functions of female, male, and babies' clothes in Slavic childbirth-lore. Traditional clothes and their parts are seen as "objects and signs" (see, e.g., Bogatyrev 2007), and their cultural semantics and symbolism depend on the ritual situation, its performers, and magic goals. Each item of clothing has its own practical significance and acquires symbolic qualities which can be interpreted in …
Folk Costume in the Ritual Year and Beyond: Heritage, Identity Marker, and Symbolic Object
The idea of this issue of Folklore: EJF emerged from the panel we organised on behalf of the Working Group on the The Ritual Year at the 12th Congress of the Socit Internationale d'Ethnologie et de Folklore (SIEF) held in Zagreb, Croatia, in June 2015. 1 We concentrated on the calendric and life cycle usage of the traditional garments and their parts, and we also followed, as much as possible, the new development trends and even the expansion of …
Introduction: Differentiation of Ritual Year(s) through Time and Space
The idea of this issue of Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore originated in a panel that we presented at the 11th congress of the Societe Internationale d’Ethnologie et de Folklore (SIEF) held in Tartu, Estonia, in July 2013. During the panel meeting we focused on the differentiation of the ritual year and its various elements. After nearly ten years of research and conferences,1 we identified the ritual year as a general frame within which …
The Russian Ritual Year and Folklore through Tourist Advertising
This article analyzes the ritual year in modern Russia as reflected in tourism spam letters circulated between 2005 and 2012. These texts are the main source of data for this study because they illustrate major tendencies in governmental, commercial, and individual attitudes towards Russian traditional customs and official holidays. They also demonstrate how local heritage is being maintained and reconstructed, and how new myths and customs are a…
Moscow Conferences on Balkan Studies
Since 1990, the Institute for Slavic Studies (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow) has organized biennial linguo-cultural conferences on the Balkan area, covering Bulgaria, Macedonia, Serbia (and some other countries of former Yugoslavia), Greece, Romania, Albania and part of Turkey 1 . Slavic and Baltic studies are sometimes included in the agenda, which immensely broadens the research area and the comparative resources. I will review the topics…
Rules and Norms, Freedom, and Regulation: The 15th Congress of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (Sief)
The review of the 15th Congress of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF), one of the first virtual events of such a scale, highlights modern tendencies in anthropology, ethnology, and folklore. The authors of the review observe the growing interdisciplinarity, the use of adjacent disciplines, and the politization and socialization of the traditional academic research. The Congress's eighteen streams included topics customary…
Politics and Folk Religion in the Period of Transition
The several decades of totalitarian aggressive atheism have drastically changed the folk religion. In new political conditions this legacy remains very important, because it develops some typical features of contemporary religion-politics interrelation
Politics and Folk Religion in the Period of Transition
The several decades of totalitarian aggressive atheism have drastically changed the folk religion. In new political conditions this legacy remains very important, because it develops some typical features of contemporary religion-politics interrelation
Bulgaaria sünnipärimused aastatuhandevahetusel
Author analyses a fragment of family rites from the corpus of a Slavic tradition, namely, the Bulgarian. There has been a revival of the popular tradition, in spite of the fact that many beliefs and practices have disappeared and have become a part of everyday life. Such practices can be performed many times a day. Interviews have revealed that people often regret having forgotten the practices they have been asked about. Another important thing …
Rituaalse aasta kajastumine vanasõnades: Üldisi tähelepanekuid
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Moscow Conferences on Balkan Studies
Since 1990, the Institute for Slavic Studies (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow) has organized biennial linguo-cultural conferences on the Balkan area, covering Bulgaria, Macedonia, Serbia (and some other countries of former Yugoslavia), Greece, Romania, Albania and part of Turkey 1 . Slavic and Baltic studies are sometimes included in the agenda, which immensely broadens the research area and the comparative resources. I will review the topics…
Restructuring of the Ritual Year in the Post-Socialist Countries
The panel, under the title Restructuring of the Ritual Year in the post-socialist countries: European values, ideology and ethnography, was held in Stockholm in August 2010 at the 8th congress of ICEES (International Council for Central and East European Studies) and was dedicated to multifaceted processes in the festival year of former socialist countries. Three specially invited panelists (Ekaterina Anastasova, Bulgaria; Gabor Barna, Hungary; A…
The Russian Ritual Year and Folklore through Tourist Advertising
This article analyzes the ritual year in modern Russia as reflected in tourism spam letters circulated between 2005 and 2012. These texts are the main source of data for this study because they illustrate major tendencies in governmental, commercial, and individual attitudes towards Russian traditional customs and official holidays. They also demonstrate how local heritage is being maintained and reconstructed, and how new myths and customs are a…
Introduction: Differentiation of Ritual Year(s) through Time and Space
The idea of this issue of Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore originated in a panel that we presented at the 11th congress of the Societe Internationale d’Ethnologie et de Folklore (SIEF) held in Tartu, Estonia, in July 2013. During the panel meeting we focused on the differentiation of the ritual year and its various elements. After nearly ten years of research and conferences,1 we identified the ritual year as a general frame within which …
Clothes as Symbolic and Magic Objects in Slavic Childbirth Customs
The paper analyzes the practical, symbolic, and magic functions of female, male, and babies' clothes in Slavic childbirth-lore. Traditional clothes and their parts are seen as "objects and signs" (see, e.g., Bogatyrev 2007), and their cultural semantics and symbolism depend on the ritual situation, its performers, and magic goals. Each item of clothing has its own practical significance and acquires symbolic qualities which can be interpreted in …
Folk Costume in the Ritual Year and Beyond: Heritage, Identity Marker, and Symbolic Object
The idea of this issue of Folklore: EJF emerged from the panel we organised on behalf of the Working Group on the The Ritual Year at the 12th Congress of the Socit Internationale d'Ethnologie et de Folklore (SIEF) held in Zagreb, Croatia, in June 2015. 1 We concentrated on the calendric and life cycle usage of the traditional garments and their parts, and we also followed, as much as possible, the new development trends and even the expansion of …
Axiology in Comparative Studies (The Notion of ‘Life’ in Russian and Bulgarian Languages)
This article scrutinises the axiological parameters of the notion of ‘life’ in Russian and Bulgarian languages on the grounds of lexicological and folklore data. Comparative analysis of the two related yet distant languages, Russian and Bulgarian (with regard to the Balkan character of the Bulgarian language), is aimed at the detection of common and differing attitudes towards values in general and for the ascertainment of language evaluative pot…
Urban Festivity: Theory and Practice, Tradition and Creativity
() 3
Dictionary of Macedonian Traditional Culture by Liljana Makarijoska in the Context of Current Slavic Ethnolinguistic Lexiсography
This review sheds light on the glossary and structure of the vocabulary entry (the defi ni- tion of the headword, examples, cross references) in the “Dictionary of Macedonian Traditional Culture” (Skopje, 2016; 564 p.) by Liljana Makarijoska. The dictionary is com- pared with other Slavic lexicographic publications of similar type, based on Bulgarian and all-Slavic folk traditions. The author chooses dialectal words from the vocabulary of materia…
Folklore, Ethnology and Beyond, from the 14th Sief Congress in Santiago de Compostela
The article focuses on the main trends in development of ethnology, folklore and cultural anthropology as represented at the 14th congress of International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF). The Congress’ main theme Track Changes: Reflecting on a Transforming World attracted scholars of many adjacent disciplines like sociology, history, economics and politics. The modern turn from rural studies and folklore genres towards gender, body, mi…
Traditional and Non-Traditional Values in Russia, Bulgaria and Slovakia: Ethnolinguistic, Comparative and Historical Dimensions
The article embodies some results of a joint international research project on linguistic and ethnocultural dynamics of traditional and non-traditional values in the three countries of the Slavic world. First, the terminology in Russian, Bulgarian and Slovakian languages is analyzed, with the outcome that the term ‘value(s)’ as denoting an abstract notion is a recent development in Slavic languages. Second, the notions of the traditional and non-…
Unlived Life: The Death and Funeral of a Child in Slavic Traditional Culture
This ethnolinguistic study based on the analysis of the archival and field data from various Slavic traditions gives an account of the reasons, meaning, and folk comprehension of untimely death - that of a child. Such a tragic event is seen as a result of intricate reasons: God's will, the fate, the verdict of the Fates, parents' ban on the rules, and lack of veneration of the saints, black magic, the evil eye, curse, etc. The amalgamation of Chr…
Towards the Jubilee of Todor Boiadzhiev
The article depicts the scientific path of the corresponding member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Professor Todor Boiadzhiev, who, on 11 November 2021, celebrated his 90th birthday. His academic life is mostly associated with Sofia University, “St Kliment Ohridski”. The major publications in dialectology, phonetics, grammar studies, lexicology, and stylistics by T. Boiadzhiev are outlined. Of special value are his books on the grammar of …
Bulgarian Conference on the Ethnology of Socialism: The Senses in Everyday and Festive Life
This review offers analytic information on the interdisciplinary conference held in Bulgaria (with participants from Northern Macedonia, Russia, Germany, India) on the socialist period as perceived through the fi ve senses. All the papers took into account relevant binary oppositions such as “self — others”, “socialist — capitalist”, “holiday — everyday life”, “home — offi ce space”, and “Bulgarian — Turkish”. There were many papers dedicated the…
Foreword. Strategies of Interbalkan Communication and Translation
This is a foreword to the collected volume “Strategies of Interbalkan communcation: Translation” (Centre of Linguocultural Research Balcanica. Proceedings of Round Tables. 7). Translation in the research of the Moscow School of Balkan Linguistics is interpreted in the wide semiotic sense, that is, not only as transformation of texts with the means of another language code, but also as semiotic transition between various codes of the Model of the …
Folk Terminology of the Balkan and Slavic Christian Orthodox Feasts: The Danger of Translation
The article combines methods of ethnolinguistics, Balkan studies, and translatory studies with the aim to analyze the translations of the folk Christian terms of feasts and other facts of the traditional culture. The study of the ways the East-Slavonic calendric term Vtoroj (Second) Spas ʻTransfi guration’ from the Boris Pasternak’s poem August is translated into seven Balkan and South Slavic languages (compared to two English translations) is su…
Bulgarian Anthroponym as a (Balkan) Text
This article considers a proper name as a text: as a linguistic, semiotic, sociocultural, and ethnographic ‘narrative.’ The author assumes that the anthroponymic space in modern Bulgaria is a live environment which is permanently developing and transforming. The environment that retains archaic patterns while adding new ones, combining the tendencies for unification and individual diversification. The analysis of the name system shows a significa…
Bulgarian Conference on the Ethnology of Socialism: Five Senses in Everyday and Festive Life
The International Online Conference “Socialism Through the Lens of the Five Senses” was organised between 3rd and the 4th of March 2022 by the Center for Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology of St Cyril and St Methodius University of Veliko Turnovo (hereinafter VTU) and the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (hereinafter IEFEM)
Emily Lyle’s Jubilee
On December 19, Dr Emily Lyle, Honorary Fellow at the Department of Celtic and Scottish Studies, in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, University of Edinburgh, celebrated her ninetieth birthday. Emily is a prominent folklorist, a researcher of ritual calendars, myths, astronomy, and cosmology, a semiotician and a typologist, a connoisseur of Scottish folklore and culture, just to mention a few of her fields of interest. To honour …
Rules and Norms, Freedom, and Regulation: The 15th Congress of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (Sief)
The review of the 15th Congress of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF), one of the first virtual events of such a scale, highlights modern tendencies in anthropology, ethnology, and folklore. The authors of the review observe the growing interdisciplinarity, the use of adjacent disciplines, and the politization and socialization of the traditional academic research. The Congress's eighteen streams included topics customary…
Calendric Feast Bans and the Punishment for Violating Them in the Bulgarian Traditional Culture
The paper offers an interdisciplinary ethnolinguistic and semiotic analysis of the Bulgarian calendric prohibitions and the consequences of violating them. Special attention is paid to linguistic data - the chrononyms which characterize these days as ambivalent, both blessed and malevolent, days which must be observed as work-free and free from other types of activity. Folk etymology of some terms for holidays reveals how language constructs the …
Ritual Rules in Changing Circumstances: Break, Adapt or Maintain? An Introduction
This issue gathers some of the works presented by the members of the Ritual Year Working Group during the 15th Congress of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF) in Helsinki in June 2021. As the general theme of this congress was 'Breaking the Rules? Power, Participation, Transgression', most of the articles stick to this question and try to understand the relationship between rituals and (the breaking of) social rules. The a…
History (24 works) · Sociology (19 works) · Philosophy (16 works) · Art (15 works) · Anthropology (11 works) · Linguistics (11 works) · Folklore (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Bulgarian (9 works) · Culinary Culture and Tourism (8 works)