Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies (Dec 2023)

Vanished Cultural Landscapes: Rituals of Remembrance for Submerged Bulgarian Villages

  • Lina Gergova

DOI
https://doi.org/10.7592/YBBS6.01
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 6
pp. 13 – 30

Abstract

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The article explores the processes of building memoryscapes: a material anchor is a starting point or an integral part of the narrative in order to facilitate communication. In some cases, these anchors are material remains, in others new religious, commemorative or ritual sites. The commemorations or pilgrimages need a visible, material object. Placemaking based on a lost place as performed by the first generation, i.e. resettlers, results in elaborated memoryscape within the second generation, i.e. their descendants.

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