Gifts and Treasures, Spiritual continuity on the Balkans
Vodenicharov, PA( ED)
1998. Blagoevgrad, 165x235, In Bulgarian,summaries, tables and articles in Englis.
Ppb, 360pp. Price EURO 35.
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The book represents Balkanistic studies in a new area. The authors deal with both the problem of gift and treasure as cultural phenomena and the various manifestations of the continuity in Balkan development. The following key topics are discussed: (1) The treasure as accumulating and preserving the tradition — religious relics, libraries, archives, family and personal collections. The treasure and the identity. Hidden treasures and reviving of the past. (2) Tradition and innovation, memory and oblivion in the historical process. Gift, gifted; donor and power. Gift culture in national, family and personal aspects. Charismatic versus institutionalised power. Misuses of the conventional power as charismatic. Offering a gift versus selling, capital versus treasure. (3) Symbolic transformation of the object, myths and ideas into treasures. Gifts, treasures and politics. Continuity in historical, literary, social and religious development. Linguistic, historical and social schools and trends. Are the Balkans still a hidden treasure of Europe.

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