Deema Kaneff is reader in Social Anthropology at the Centre for Russian, European and Eurasian Studies at the University of Birmighnam.

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Glossary

Chapter 1. Introduction: Politics and the past

• Local-Centre Relations in Socialist Bulgaria
• Socialist Temporality
• The Importance of the Past: History, Tradition and Folklore
• Fieldwork and the Issue of Representation

Chapter 2. A 'Model Village'

• The 'Model Village'
• Event Administrative Relations
• Class Relations
• Morality
• Identity
• Conclusion

HISTORY: A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO CHAPTERS 3 AND 4

Chapter 3. Socialist History, Politics and Morality

• Characterising History
• Politics and History
• A Moral History

Chapter 4. Contesting History

• Different Histories: Political Pluralism
• Alliances and Oppositions

TRADITION: A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO CHAPTERS 5 AND 6

Chapter 5. The Character of Traditions

• Traditional Funeral Practices
• Death and Relations to Nature
• Collective Celebrations of Tradition

Chapter 6. Tradition and History: Contrasting Constructions of the Past

• A Good Communist Village: A Bad Traditional Village
• Creating Local Distinctions: Traditional Practices as a Way of Opposing the State

FOLKLORE: A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO CHAPTERS 7 AND 8

Chapter 7. Defining Folklore

• Survakani: both a Traditional and Folkloric Custom
• Folklore as a State-determined Activity

Chapter 8. Folklore in a New Bulgarian Village

• Education, Bulgarian Culture and Folklore
• The Village Vocal Group
• Talpa - a 'new Bulgarian village'

Chapter 9. A New Model for the Village

• A Model Village in a Model District
• Decentralisation - the Tragic Consequences
• A Re-evalutaion of the Past
• Re-negotiating Relations with the Centre

Appendix I: 9 September 1987
Appendix II: Eulogy

References

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