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Identity, Nationalism, and Cultural Heritage Under Siege: Five Narratives of Pomak Heritage—From Forced Renaming to Weddings

By Fatme Myuhtar-May

Book information

Publisher
Brill Academic Publishers
Year
2014
ISBN
9004272070, 9789004272071
ISSN
1877-6272
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7536613 bytes)
Series
Balkan Studies Library 14
Pages
x+278\289
Topic
History
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2016-04-26 13:57:31
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In Identity, Nationalism, and Cultural Heritage under Siege, Fatme Myuhtar-May makes a case for the recognition of Pomak heritage by presenting five stories from the past and present of the Rhodope Muslims in Bulgaria as examples of a distinct Pomak culture. The stories range from the Christianisation during the Balkan Wars of 1912-1913 and the forced communist renaming of the Pomaks in the 1970s, to their fascinating wedding rituals and historic figures. Each of the five narratives contains its own storyline and serves as a prominent example of Pomak heritage, from the author’s perspective. The stories take place in the context of fervent nationalism and the ongoing censorship of Pomakness based on the claim that it is an “ethnic Bulgarian,” not “Pomak” heritage.

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