Author: Anastasova, Ekaterina Evgenieva
Title: Etnichnost, traditsiia, vlast : etiudi za prekhoda
Description: Sofiia, Izd. "Marin Drinov, 2006. orig. wrappers. 20x14cm, 145 pages.. 8pp photoplates.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Bulgarian text. Includes a 5-page English summary. "Ethnicity, Tradition, and Power: Essays on Transition" ["This book aims at an analysis of the phenomena related to ethnicity and national identity of different communities (the Wallachians, the Bulgarians, the Gypsies, the Turks, the Ukrainians and the Russian Old-Believers) in the period of transition in the post-socialist countries in a relatively large area which comprises Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Ukraine" - from summary.] Contents [translated into English]: Introduction: The era of transition; Scholarship and transition; Peculiarities of my transition; Polysemy of the Wallachians; The Challenge of the goals and tasks; The terminology; Transnational Model:Reincarnation of the Diaspora: Ethnonyms; Myths and history; The language: "for" and "against"; The Wallachian ethnic model; Reception: Dominant features of tradition: Dreams about the nether world; To eat away as a Wallachian at "pomana"; Power and powerful: Ethnic dimensions of power in Bulgaria; The Gypsy Prime Minister; Other ruling "Gypsies"; King the Bulgarian; The madnessof the Bulgarians or the revenge og minorities; The case of the Russian Old-Believers; Powre and Tradition; Conclusion.

Keywords: Bulgaria, Ethnic Minorities, Nationalism Social, Anthropology Nation, Ethnicity Sociology, Wallachian Gypsy, Roma Ukraine, Turks Bulgarians, Bulgaria National, Ethnology