Ekaterina Anastasova (1962-2025)
2025-06-22
R.I.P: Ekaterina Anastasova (1962–2025)
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Vol. 8 No. 2 (2025): Volume 8.2: The Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies
The second issue of Volume 8 of the Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies presents current research results from Bulgaria, Poland, Estonia, Türkiye, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan. The contributions explore youth folkloore, crime narratives and horror stories (E. Kalmre); everyday rituals and practices; festivals and funeral customs (V. Özkan, P. Vasileva-Grueva, M. Markova); child mortality in GULAG camps
(Z. Saktaganova, A. Gladysheva, A. Ventsel); horticultural cooperatives, cultivation in the windowsills, balkonies, rooftop gardens (M. Kuperjanov, A. Kuperjanov, M. Kõiva); mental cartographies at the intersection of local tradition, mythology, and science (R. Hiiemäe, M. Kalda, K. Villem); saints and pilgrimage (T. Kalniuk); socialist ritual music (I. Sikorska, O. Letychevska, I. Lisniak), and grunge
(A. Ventsel).
The editors for this issue are Mare Kõiva and Mila Maeva.
Published:
2025-12-15
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The Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies (YBBS) is a peer-reviewed annual English language journal for the study of humanities (incl. ethnology, folklore, religiosity, and migration studies), global relations and influences of the past events and modern developments in the area. YBBS welcomes contributions in the fields of critical and comparative analyses of cultural history.
No charges are applied either for submissing, reviewing or processing articles for publication.
The journal is listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Scopus.
ISSN (print) 2613-7844 (online) 2613-7852 YBBS is a joint publication of Bulgarian, Lithuanian, Estonian and Latvian Academies of Sciences, Centre of Excellence in Estonian Studies, Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum, Estonian Literary Museum, Lithuanian Institute of History, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, University of Latvia.
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