The “Painted Bride” as an emblem of identity: pomaks of Southern Bulgaria
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https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu09.2017.303Abstract
Ritual acts are framed discourse, but presenting ritual acts on stage changes the frame. The acts cease to be performative and become theatrical; there is an element of self-referentiality in them, as they point to pre-existing discourse like quotation marks. This is true of all revival, which points to an assumed collective memory, while in reality constructing that memory as collective memory for an audience. The goals of revival are related to construction of group identity. Often the revivalist project is oppositional: it implicitly or explicitly situates the constructed identity against some rejected mode of being.
Keywords:
folklore, identity, construction of memory, Pomak wedding ritual, revival project
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