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  • THE RITUAL YEAR 13
    Vol. 13 No. 1 (2024)

    City Rituals 1:

    The rural-urban balance has recently been reversed, with more people now living in urban, rather than in rural environments. Facilitated by the rapid changes in communication, the influence of urban centres is today stronger than ever before. The first volume of City Rituals addresses ritual practices and public events (such as seasonal festivals and traditions, national holidays and commemorations, and religious feasts) that mark the life of urban residents in cities in all corners of the world. The authors highlight their connection with local traditions and history, describe their evolution over time, and draw at¬tention to more recent trends, due to globalization.

    Editor for this issue: Irina Stahl
    Editor-in-chief: Emily Lyle
    Editor for the series: Irina Sedakova

    ISSN 2228-1347 (pdf)
    ISBN (paper) 978-9916-742-41-9

  • The Ritual Year 12: Regulating Customs
    Vol. 12 No. 1 (2021)

    Regulating Customs is the twelfth issue of the ‘The Ritual Year' series. The volume explores a range of regulatory forces that preserve, replace and revive, shape, and influence the practice and structure of calendar customs today. The eleven research articles by scholars from ten countries are based on first-hand field research and examine the age-old tensions between stasis and innovation, stability and change, and the creativity that is on display in even the most ’traditional’ of practices.

    ISSN 2228-1347

    ISBN 978-5-89180-129-5

    Editor-in-chief: Emily Lyle (Scotland)
    Editor for the series: Irina Sedakova (Russia)
    Editor for this issue: Thomas A. McKean (Scotland)

     

    Contents

    Thomas A. McKean. Introduction — Regulating Customs
    Nancy C. McEntire. First-Footing in the North of Scotland, Past and Present
    Thomas A. McKean. The Tarves People's Party: Fire, Planning, and Community 
    Irina Sedakova. Karakondzho: Evil Spirits of the Twelve Days of Christmastime in the Balkans
    Petko Hristov. Traditional Ritual Responses to Contemporary Misfortunes — The Youth Kurban Sacrifice and the Regulation of Social Life in a Post-socialist Bulgarian Village
    Athanasios Barmpalexis. ‘Sweeping the Worlds Clean’ in North-East Scotland: The'Wild Hunt’as a Contemporary Shamanistic Ritual
    James I. Deutsch. From the ‘Mad Dash’to ‘ShoppingAlone’: Thanksgiving Rituals of Consumption on Black Friday and Cyber Monday
    Tatiana Minniyakhmetova. The Role of Calendar Rituals as Regulators
    Cozette Griffin-Kremer. Regulating Lily-of-the-Valley /'Muguet) Festivals in France on the National and Local Levels
    Skaidre Urboniene. Religious Feasts and the Soviet Regime: The Case of Cross-Days and May Devotions

    Lidija Nikocevic. Bell-Ringers of the Northern Adriatic: Local Croatian Tradition as World Heritage
    Suzy Harrison. The Development and Management of a Transnational Tradition: The Case of Diwali in Leicester
    Contributors
    The Ritual Year Working Group’s Yearbooks

  • The Ritual Year 11: Traditions and Transformation
    Vol. 11 No. 1 (2016)

    The eleventh volume in the series “The Ritual Year” is entitled “Traditions and Transformation”. These keywords define the principal areas explored in the issue—the preservation of archaic rituals and customs and the modifications that they are currently undergoing. The twenty-one articles by scholars from nine countries are based mainly on field research and demonstrate fundamental changes in the attitudes  towards local traditions in their preserved, revived, or invented versions.

     

    Contents
    Rozalinda Musina. Muslim Family Ceremonies in the Life of Contemporary Tatars: Traditions and Innovations
    Terry Gunnell. The Development and Role of the Fjallkona (Mountain Woman) in Icelandic National Day Celebrations and Other Contexts
    Helena Ruotsala. The Role and Meaning of Fictive Rituals in Cultural Tourism
    Jonas Mardosa. Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary (Žolinė) in the Ethnoconfessionally Mixed Environment of Modern Vilnius
    Ildikó Lehtinen. Mari Ritual Practices as Representation
    Svetlana Amosova. Blood Libel Legend in Latgale: Types of Narratives
    Lina Gergova. Russia and the USSR in the Bulgarian National Ritual Year
    Bożena Gierek. Transformation in the Polish Festival of Harvest
    Petko Hristov. Village Kurban as the Constructing of Local Identity and the Ritual Process in Post-Socialist Bulgaria and the Republic of Macedonia
    Marlene Hugoson. Midwinter Masking: Place and Identity in an Ironworks Community
    Aleksandra Ippolitova. Rituals of Herb-Gathering in M. Velyakov’s Manuscript of the 1890s: Transformation of Tradition
    Elena Iugai. “From This Place You Cannot Hear Speech. From This Place You Cannot Receive a Letter”: The Letter-Message in Russian Funeral Lamentations
    Mare Kõiva. The Ritual Year of Domestic Animals: Zoofolkloristic Aspects
    Andres Kuperjanov. The Relationship Between the Folk Calendar and Folk Astronomy Heritage
    Tatiana Minniyakhmetova. Sacred Rituals and Calendar Festivities in the Annual Cycle of Udmurts
    Rasa Paukštytė-Šaknienė. The Family and the Ritual Year in the Modern Lithuanian City
    Sergey Rychkov. Transformation of Festive Culture of the Russian Rural Population: Regional Dimension
    Guzel Stolyarova; Alsu Enikeeva. Modern Folk Festivals in Tatarstan: The Paths of Development and Their Specific Features
    Žilvytis Šaknys. Ethnic and Confessional Aspects of a Holiday in the City of Vilnius
    Elena Uzeneva. The Calendar Rites of the Muslim Bulgarians— at the Crossroads of the Сultures
    Liisa Vesik. The Evolution of Valentine’s Day in Socialist and Post-Socialist Times