Detelina Tocheva
Biographic Data
| ID | 91119 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Detelina Tocheva |
| GIVEN NAMES | Detelina |
| FAMILY NAME | Tocheva |
| SIGNATURE | TOCHEVA D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3105-213X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Galia Valtchinova, Saints, Places, and National Imagination. Historical Anthropology of Religious Life in the Balkans: Istanbul, The Isis Press, 2019
Fruit de deux décennies de recherche, cet ouvrage offre une formidable démonstration de la nécessité pour les sciences sociales de penser les transformations du religieux dans leurs enchevêtrements avec les mutations historiques du national et du transnational, du local et du régional, de saisir les évolutions du religieux par le prisme des limites poreuses et mouvantes qui le séparent d’autres sphères, comme le politique et l’économie. Si l’ouvr…
Introduction. Christianisme orthodoxe de Russie et d’Ukraine en Europe du Sud-Est: Transferts, interactions, conflits
et d'Ukraine en Europe du Sud-Est : transferts, interactions, conflits Introduction.Orthodox Christianity of Russia and Ukraine in Southeastern Europe: Transfers
Faire communauté: De l’église russe de Sofia à une paroisse de l’orthodoxie libérale bulgare
L’article étudie une communauté chrétienne orthodoxe bulgare à laquelle appartiennent des membres de l’élite intellectuelle et politique de Sofia. Formée dans les années 1990-2000 à l’église Saint-Nicolas-de-Myre, procure du patriarcat de Moscou à Sofia, la communauté se construit en tension avec les dirigeants de cette église. En revanche, l’attrait pour certains aspects de la tradition orthodoxe russe exerce un puissant pouvoir intégrateur, tou…
Introduction. Marking Space: The Russian Orthodox Politics of Self-Assertion
Introduction. Marquer l’espace: Les politiques d’affirmation de l’orthodoxie russe
After the demise of the Soviet Union, the Russian Orthodox Church, headed by the patriarchate of Moscow, has undergone spectacular growth. It has left the marginal cultural niche it once occupied and become a mainstream religious organisation. Orthodoxy has become a religion by default for everybody who has not claimed otherwise. The Church’s pervasive material presence is one aspect of this development. The legitimacy of this presence, however, …
La Sainte Russie contre l’Occident , by Kathy Rousselet
International audience
Multiple Moralities and Religions in Post-Soviet Russia
In the post-Soviet period morality became a debatable concept, open to a multitude of expressions and performances. From Russian Orthodoxy to Islam, from shamanism to Protestantism, religions of various kinds provided some of the first possible alternative moral discourses and practices after the end of the Soviet system. This influence remains strong today. Within the Russian context, religion and morality intersect in such social domains as the…
Entre pouvoir, autorité, arrangements et créativité: L’orthodoxie russe contemporaine saisie par deux anthropologues
Le pouvoir de l'tat russe et l'autorit de l'glise orthodoxe russe (Patriarcat de Moscou) ont-ils dtermin les volutions de la religion orthodoxe depuis la chute de l'Union sovitique ?Sans minorer les consquences des dcisions prises par le sommet, savoir respectivement, par l'tat et l'glise, les deux ouvrages prsents ici, celui de Tobias Kllner et celui de Jeanne (anna) Kormina, montrent que ces dcisions ne surdterminent pas les volutions du religi…
Custodians of heritage and faith: Orthodox Christianity in a Russian state museum
This article presents a case study of the 'imperial temple' of the former tsars' palace in Gatchina, a state museum located nearby Saint Petersburg. It illustrates how top-level state policies have allowed professional focus on the religious materiality of the imperial past to become linked to the introduction of Orthodox Christian practice. This combination has also resulted from the actors' specific life trajectories and ethical positions, from…
Changing Mutuality: Building a House with Unpaid Labour in Bulgaria
Vernacular Entanglements: Islam and Communism in a Bulgarian Village
Throughout the three decades following the demise of state-socialism in Bulgaria, the terms “communism” and “communist” have been used continuously by all kinds of actors to respond to a plethora of contemporary challenges. Based on ethnographic research in a village in the Rhodope Mountains among Bulgarian Muslims, this article examines how various meanings of “communism” and “communist” have been called upon constantly by members of all generat…
Dilemmes de genre postsocialistes: La Marche des lesbiennes de Belgrade de 2015 et ses antécédents
La Marche des lesbiennes de 2015 à Belgrade a constitué le point culminant du mouvement séparatiste lesbien, fragile mais résistant, qui s’est développé dans l’espace (post-)yougoslave au cours des dernières décennies. Dans cet article, je m’appuie sur diverses sources empiriques pour analyser ce rassemblement en le plaçant dans le double contexte de l’histoire de l’organisation des féministes/lesbiennes yougoslaves et de celle, plus large, anglo…
This Is Our Professional Feast
An annual celebration called the Day of the Driver, held in the vicinity of a chapel in the central southern part of the Rhodope Mountains of Bulgaria, is a professional as well as Orthodox Christian feast in which Bulgarian Sunni Muslims have participated at least since the fall of the communist regime in 1989. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this article shows that the protracted workings of the socialist elevation of work identity are express…
G odelier, M aurice ( b . 1934)
Maurice Godelier greatly contributed to the institutionalization of the subdiscipline of economic anthropology in France. After promoting an original synthesis of neo‐Marxist and structuralist approaches, he went on to develop a comprehensive critique of Marxist theory, as well as of notions of gift and exchange. His influential book The Mental and the Material presents a theory of the relations between ideology and economic practice
Domestic Mode of Production
The principles and processes of the production of material goods within domestic groups are termed the “domestic mode of production.” This mode is dominant in economies in which an overwhelming majority of the material goods are produced by the domestic groups. The concept came under debate in the 1970s and the 1980s with the development of Marxist approaches in anthropology. Anthropologists interrogated the shift from the domestic to other modes…
Les musulmans de l’ Europe du Sud-Est. Des Empires aux États balkaniques, by Nathalie Clayer et Xavier Bougarel
What It Takes to Become a Self-Enterprising Household in the Rhodope Mountain, Bulgaria
Part of the transformations in rural Bulgaria after the fall of socialism in 1989 can be described as the implementation of neoliberal policies, shaped by general trends such as shrinking welfare state, the introduction of markets in public and private spheres and the view that self-enterprising individuals are best equipped to live successful lives in such environment. The latter characteristic can be summarized as the crafting of neoliberal per…
The Economy of the Temples of God in the Turmoil of Changing Russia
The liberalisation of religious practice after the fall of the Soviet regime and the support by the Russian state to the Russian Orthodox Church have contributed to the enormous growth of the church economy. Controversies within and without the Church interrogate commercial and gifting practices. The relationship between the expansion of church commerce and the operation of moral boundaries, underlined by critical stances, has been determined by …
Women Teachers of Religion in Russia: Gendered Authority in the Orthodox Church
Everyday education in post-Soviet Russian Orthodoxy relies on women's engagement. This authority does not challenge the masculine monopoly over priesthood, but nonetheless is secularising the Church in a genuinely new way by bridging the fields of secular and religious education, and by drawing on secular arguments based on ideas of professionalism. Priestly authority, encapsulated in blessings and assignment of tasks, sanctions its establishment…
Book and Film Reviews
BIELO, James S., Words Upon the Word: An Ethnography of Evangelical Group Bible Study, x, 187 pp., notes, references, index. New York: New York University Press, 2009. Paperback, $21. ISBN 9780814791226. BLACKBURN, Anne M., Locations of Buddhism: Colonialism and Modernity in Sri Lanka, xxii, 237 pp., figures, bibliographical references. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. Cloth, $45. ISBN 9780226055077. BRUCE, Steve, Paisley: Religion and…
Crafting Ethics: The Dilemma of Almsgiving in Russian Orthodox Churches
With the liberalization of religious practices after the fall of the Soviet regime in Russia, almsgiving to beggars in Russian Orthodox churches has become one of the most widespread forms of Orthodox charity. However, the priests are faced with an ethical dilemma: should they be charitable with beggars or should they sanction those who do not live according to certain moral standards? This article examines how Orthodox priests interact with diff…
Spreading grace’ in post‐Soviet Russia (Respond to this article at http: (Www.therai.org.uk/at/debate)
The article addresses the revival of Russian Orthodoxy as a prominent domain in the lives of many Russians. The six authors are interested in the underlying question: What makes Russian Orthodoxy a relevent and modern source of morality and identity? The circumstances of this branch of Christianity significantly differ from what has been discussed in recent years as ‘the anthropology of Christianity’. The article proposes a thematic approach in o…
Enfances dans le kollektiv en Estonie et en ex-urss
En Union soviétique, les établissements de placement pour enfants ont marqué la vie des populations. Ils constituent à présent pour les sociétés post-soviétiques un enjeu identitaire et mémoriel. L'article rend compte d'une recherche menée en Estonie entre 2001 et 2004 sur la transformation des rapports entre les institutions d'un côté, les familles et les enfants de l'autre, depuis l'effondrement du régime communiste. Les récits positifs livrés …
Les ONG et les nouveaux modes de politique familiale: Survie des familles, survie des associations
Les Organisations non gouvernementales (ONG) ont émergé dans l’espace post-socialiste d’Europe de l’Est en investissant de multiples niches d’action, anciennes ou nouvelles, y compris l’aide aux familles. Ces nouveaux agents de la politique familiale vivent dans la culture du projet ; les financements de projets ponctuels assurent leur existence et orientent le choix des “clientèles”. La centralité de l’enfant, ainsi que les dimensions ethniques …
Êtes-vous Russe ou Estonien ? Ethnicité et transformation sociale dans l'Estonie contemporaine
La distinction entre Estoniens et Russes est omniprésente dans tous les domaines de la vie sociale en Estonie. Elle a pris une forme nouvelle depuis la chute de l'URSS et est profondément marquée par le changement social et politique que vit le pays depuis l'accès à sa seconde indépendance. L'auteur étudie la façon dont l'ethnicité est activée à travers des éléments aussi divers que les stéréotypes quotidiens, le recensement, les études sociologi…
Crafting Ethics: The Dilemma of Almsgiving in Russian Orthodox Churches
With the liberalization of religious practices after the fall of the Soviet regime in Russia, almsgiving to beggars in Russian Orthodox churches has become one of the most widespread forms of Orthodox charity. However, the priests are faced with an ethical dilemma: should they be charitable with beggars or should they sanction those who do not live according to certain moral standards? This article examines how Orthodox priests interact with diff…
Women Teachers of Religion in Russia: Gendered Authority in the Orthodox Church
Everyday education in post-Soviet Russian Orthodoxy relies on women's engagement. This authority does not challenge the masculine monopoly over priesthood, but nonetheless is secularising the Church in a genuinely new way by bridging the fields of secular and religious education, and by drawing on secular arguments based on ideas of professionalism. Priestly authority, encapsulated in blessings and assignment of tasks, sanctions its establishment…
Spreading grace’ in post‐Soviet Russia (Respond to this article at http: (Www.therai.org.uk/at/debate)
The article addresses the revival of Russian Orthodoxy as a prominent domain in the lives of many Russians. The six authors are interested in the underlying question: What makes Russian Orthodoxy a relevent and modern source of morality and identity? The circumstances of this branch of Christianity significantly differ from what has been discussed in recent years as ‘the anthropology of Christianity’. The article proposes a thematic approach in o…
Custodians of heritage and faith: Orthodox Christianity in a Russian state museum
This article presents a case study of the 'imperial temple' of the former tsars' palace in Gatchina, a state museum located nearby Saint Petersburg. It illustrates how top-level state policies have allowed professional focus on the religious materiality of the imperial past to become linked to the introduction of Orthodox Christian practice. This combination has also resulted from the actors' specific life trajectories and ethical positions, from…
The Economy of the Temples of God in the Turmoil of Changing Russia
The liberalisation of religious practice after the fall of the Soviet regime and the support by the Russian state to the Russian Orthodox Church have contributed to the enormous growth of the church economy. Controversies within and without the Church interrogate commercial and gifting practices. The relationship between the expansion of church commerce and the operation of moral boundaries, underlined by critical stances, has been determined by …
Enfances dans le kollektiv en Estonie et en ex-urss
En Union soviétique, les établissements de placement pour enfants ont marqué la vie des populations. Ils constituent à présent pour les sociétés post-soviétiques un enjeu identitaire et mémoriel. L'article rend compte d'une recherche menée en Estonie entre 2001 et 2004 sur la transformation des rapports entre les institutions d'un côté, les familles et les enfants de l'autre, depuis l'effondrement du régime communiste. Les récits positifs livrés …
Peurs européennes, peurs malthusiennes
L’Union européenne, sous l’impulsion de l’Allemagne et de l’Autriche, a décidé de ne pas ouvrir son marché du travail aux ressortissants des futurs pays adhérents de l’Est. Fondé sur des enquêtes portant sur l’élargissement de l’Union européenne, menées notamment en l’Estonie, en Pologne et en Hongrie auprès des milieux politico-administratifs et des experts, l’article tente de mettre en lumière la construction de représentations et de catégories…
Êtes-vous Russe ou Estonien ? Ethnicité et transformation sociale dans l'Estonie contemporaine
La distinction entre Estoniens et Russes est omniprésente dans tous les domaines de la vie sociale en Estonie. Elle a pris une forme nouvelle depuis la chute de l'URSS et est profondément marquée par le changement social et politique que vit le pays depuis l'accès à sa seconde indépendance. L'auteur étudie la façon dont l'ethnicité est activée à travers des éléments aussi divers que les stéréotypes quotidiens, le recensement, les études sociologi…
Les ONG et les nouveaux modes de politique familiale: Survie des familles, survie des associations
Les Organisations non gouvernementales (ONG) ont émergé dans l’espace post-socialiste d’Europe de l’Est en investissant de multiples niches d’action, anciennes ou nouvelles, y compris l’aide aux familles. Ces nouveaux agents de la politique familiale vivent dans la culture du projet ; les financements de projets ponctuels assurent leur existence et orientent le choix des “clientèles”. La centralité de l’enfant, ainsi que les dimensions ethniques …
Enfances dans le kollektiv en Estonie et en ex-urss
En Union soviétique, les établissements de placement pour enfants ont marqué la vie des populations. Ils constituent à présent pour les sociétés post-soviétiques un enjeu identitaire et mémoriel. L'article rend compte d'une recherche menée en Estonie entre 2001 et 2004 sur la transformation des rapports entre les institutions d'un côté, les familles et les enfants de l'autre, depuis l'effondrement du régime communiste. Les récits positifs livrés …
Spreading grace’ in post‐Soviet Russia (Respond to this article at http: (Www.therai.org.uk/at/debate)
The article addresses the revival of Russian Orthodoxy as a prominent domain in the lives of many Russians. The six authors are interested in the underlying question: What makes Russian Orthodoxy a relevent and modern source of morality and identity? The circumstances of this branch of Christianity significantly differ from what has been discussed in recent years as ‘the anthropology of Christianity’. The article proposes a thematic approach in o…
Book and Film Reviews
BIELO, James S., Words Upon the Word: An Ethnography of Evangelical Group Bible Study, x, 187 pp., notes, references, index. New York: New York University Press, 2009. Paperback, $21. ISBN 9780814791226. BLACKBURN, Anne M., Locations of Buddhism: Colonialism and Modernity in Sri Lanka, xxii, 237 pp., figures, bibliographical references. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. Cloth, $45. ISBN 9780226055077. BRUCE, Steve, Paisley: Religion and…
Crafting Ethics: The Dilemma of Almsgiving in Russian Orthodox Churches
With the liberalization of religious practices after the fall of the Soviet regime in Russia, almsgiving to beggars in Russian Orthodox churches has become one of the most widespread forms of Orthodox charity. However, the priests are faced with an ethical dilemma: should they be charitable with beggars or should they sanction those who do not live according to certain moral standards? This article examines how Orthodox priests interact with diff…
Women Teachers of Religion in Russia: Gendered Authority in the Orthodox Church
Everyday education in post-Soviet Russian Orthodoxy relies on women's engagement. This authority does not challenge the masculine monopoly over priesthood, but nonetheless is secularising the Church in a genuinely new way by bridging the fields of secular and religious education, and by drawing on secular arguments based on ideas of professionalism. Priestly authority, encapsulated in blessings and assignment of tasks, sanctions its establishment…
The Economy of the Temples of God in the Turmoil of Changing Russia
The liberalisation of religious practice after the fall of the Soviet regime and the support by the Russian state to the Russian Orthodox Church have contributed to the enormous growth of the church economy. Controversies within and without the Church interrogate commercial and gifting practices. The relationship between the expansion of church commerce and the operation of moral boundaries, underlined by critical stances, has been determined by …
G odelier, M aurice ( b . 1934)
Maurice Godelier greatly contributed to the institutionalization of the subdiscipline of economic anthropology in France. After promoting an original synthesis of neo‐Marxist and structuralist approaches, he went on to develop a comprehensive critique of Marxist theory, as well as of notions of gift and exchange. His influential book The Mental and the Material presents a theory of the relations between ideology and economic practice
Domestic Mode of Production
The principles and processes of the production of material goods within domestic groups are termed the “domestic mode of production.” This mode is dominant in economies in which an overwhelming majority of the material goods are produced by the domestic groups. The concept came under debate in the 1970s and the 1980s with the development of Marxist approaches in anthropology. Anthropologists interrogated the shift from the domestic to other modes…
Les musulmans de l’ Europe du Sud-Est. Des Empires aux États balkaniques, by Nathalie Clayer et Xavier Bougarel
What It Takes to Become a Self-Enterprising Household in the Rhodope Mountain, Bulgaria
Part of the transformations in rural Bulgaria after the fall of socialism in 1989 can be described as the implementation of neoliberal policies, shaped by general trends such as shrinking welfare state, the introduction of markets in public and private spheres and the view that self-enterprising individuals are best equipped to live successful lives in such environment. The latter characteristic can be summarized as the crafting of neoliberal per…
Vernacular Entanglements: Islam and Communism in a Bulgarian Village
Throughout the three decades following the demise of state-socialism in Bulgaria, the terms “communism” and “communist” have been used continuously by all kinds of actors to respond to a plethora of contemporary challenges. Based on ethnographic research in a village in the Rhodope Mountains among Bulgarian Muslims, this article examines how various meanings of “communism” and “communist” have been called upon constantly by members of all generat…
Dilemmes de genre postsocialistes: La Marche des lesbiennes de Belgrade de 2015 et ses antécédents
La Marche des lesbiennes de 2015 à Belgrade a constitué le point culminant du mouvement séparatiste lesbien, fragile mais résistant, qui s’est développé dans l’espace (post-)yougoslave au cours des dernières décennies. Dans cet article, je m’appuie sur diverses sources empiriques pour analyser ce rassemblement en le plaçant dans le double contexte de l’histoire de l’organisation des féministes/lesbiennes yougoslaves et de celle, plus large, anglo…
This Is Our Professional Feast
An annual celebration called the Day of the Driver, held in the vicinity of a chapel in the central southern part of the Rhodope Mountains of Bulgaria, is a professional as well as Orthodox Christian feast in which Bulgarian Sunni Muslims have participated at least since the fall of the communist regime in 1989. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this article shows that the protracted workings of the socialist elevation of work identity are express…
Changing Mutuality: Building a House with Unpaid Labour in Bulgaria
Multiple Moralities and Religions in Post-Soviet Russia
In the post-Soviet period morality became a debatable concept, open to a multitude of expressions and performances. From Russian Orthodoxy to Islam, from shamanism to Protestantism, religions of various kinds provided some of the first possible alternative moral discourses and practices after the end of the Soviet system. This influence remains strong today. Within the Russian context, religion and morality intersect in such social domains as the…
Entre pouvoir, autorité, arrangements et créativité: L’orthodoxie russe contemporaine saisie par deux anthropologues
Le pouvoir de l'tat russe et l'autorit de l'glise orthodoxe russe (Patriarcat de Moscou) ont-ils dtermin les volutions de la religion orthodoxe depuis la chute de l'Union sovitique ?Sans minorer les consquences des dcisions prises par le sommet, savoir respectivement, par l'tat et l'glise, les deux ouvrages prsents ici, celui de Tobias Kllner et celui de Jeanne (anna) Kormina, montrent que ces dcisions ne surdterminent pas les volutions du religi…
Custodians of heritage and faith: Orthodox Christianity in a Russian state museum
This article presents a case study of the 'imperial temple' of the former tsars' palace in Gatchina, a state museum located nearby Saint Petersburg. It illustrates how top-level state policies have allowed professional focus on the religious materiality of the imperial past to become linked to the introduction of Orthodox Christian practice. This combination has also resulted from the actors' specific life trajectories and ethical positions, from…
La Sainte Russie contre l’Occident , by Kathy Rousselet
International audience
Introduction. Marking Space: The Russian Orthodox Politics of Self-Assertion
Introduction. Marquer l’espace: Les politiques d’affirmation de l’orthodoxie russe
After the demise of the Soviet Union, the Russian Orthodox Church, headed by the patriarchate of Moscow, has undergone spectacular growth. It has left the marginal cultural niche it once occupied and become a mainstream religious organisation. Orthodoxy has become a religion by default for everybody who has not claimed otherwise. The Church’s pervasive material presence is one aspect of this development. The legitimacy of this presence, however, …
Galia Valtchinova, Saints, Places, and National Imagination. Historical Anthropology of Religious Life in the Balkans: Istanbul, The Isis Press, 2019
Fruit de deux décennies de recherche, cet ouvrage offre une formidable démonstration de la nécessité pour les sciences sociales de penser les transformations du religieux dans leurs enchevêtrements avec les mutations historiques du national et du transnational, du local et du régional, de saisir les évolutions du religieux par le prisme des limites poreuses et mouvantes qui le séparent d’autres sphères, comme le politique et l’économie. Si l’ouvr…
Introduction. Christianisme orthodoxe de Russie et d’Ukraine en Europe du Sud-Est: Transferts, interactions, conflits
et d'Ukraine en Europe du Sud-Est : transferts, interactions, conflits Introduction.Orthodox Christianity of Russia and Ukraine in Southeastern Europe: Transfers
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