Serbian Folk Religion in 100 Terms // Narodna Religija Srba u 100 Pojmova (1991) - Dušan Bandić
"Dr. Dušan Bandić (1938-2004) was a professor of ethnology at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade and for a time the head of the Department of National Ethnology and Anthropology.''
- in my attempt to make more sources on ex-yu culture accessible, i've begun to scan and share some of the good material i've read! due to some expressed interest, here is a segment on vampires and watermills (which are connected to vampires)!
- for folks who can read serbo-croatian and cyrillic, you can read the direct scans from the book here and for those of you who can't, i've translated the pages into english myself and you can read them here. hope some of you enjoy reading about vampires before they were sexy! if you are interested in reading any of the other segments, you can find a table of contents here and let me know which you'd like to see first.
(note: while im fluent in english and put a lot of effort into these translations, i'm by no means a professional translator. my primary focus was that the facts were translated correctly and relayed what people believed)
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i don't wanna what-about which is why i'm not saying anything on the post but it is. i dunno. weird to me that the armenian genocide is the only anatolian genocide that people mention -- the ottoman empire & (later) turkey also attempted genocide against anatolian greeks and (til) assyrians during the same period (~1913-1923)
i only heard it called the "greek and rmenian genocide" when i was younger, it wasn't until later that i realized that's not the common usage
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Kabyle people (Berber ethnic group from northern Algeria) in a village
French vintage postcard
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У дагестанских горянок было своё мерило мужской красоты.
К примеру, о юноше с красивым лицом, идеальной фигурой и в отличной одежде, говорили: «От этого молодого человека нет пользы: у него не разодраны полы чухи от езды на коне, в ней не образовалась дыра от тяжести сабли, не протерлась чуха и от пистолета за поясом.»
Поэтому впечатлить девушку, имея только хорошие внешние данные, было задачей утопической. Ведь оценивали мужскую красоту совершенно по иным критериям.
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Чуха, чоха — верхняя мужская одежда некоторых народов Кавказа, сшитая из сукна, напоминающая черкеску, но с широкими рукавами до локтя и со стоячим воротником.
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i'm so obsessed with the creator of golden kamuy now, i think i will read it while doing my bleach and WHA re reads... exhibiting anti social personality traits!! he's just like me fr!!
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I'm reading about how Israel, in the immediate aftermath of the 1948 Nakba, deliberately replaced olive trees and other indigenous flora with European plants. This ecological disaster, which is now proudly hailed under the banner of 'making the desert bloom,' was done to 'de-Arabize' the landscape, and to cover up - often with fast-growing European pine trees -the ruins of Palestinian villages that were destroyed by Zionists forces.
And I just need everyone to read this passage from Pappé, because the symbolism of what happened to those European pine trees in the desert speaks for itself:
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, by Ilan Pappé (2006, p. 227-228.)
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