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Bones of contention: the living archive of Vasil Levski and the making of Bulgaria's national hero
Maria Nikolaeva Todorova-
Frontmatter
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INTRODUCTION (page ix)
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PART I. Bones of Contention, or Professionals, Dilettantes, and Who Owns History (page 1)
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1. A "Social Drama" at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (page 9)
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2. From Breach to Crisis (page 39)
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3. No Redress, or Where Are Levski's Bones? (page 65)
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4. A Socialist Public Sphere? (page 83)
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5. "Professionals" and "Dilettantes" (page 109)
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6. Recognizing the Schism, or What Is Worse: Bad Professionals or Good Nationalists? (page 139)
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PART II. The Apostle of Freedom, or What Makes a Hero? (page 175)
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1. What Is a Hero and Are Heroes Born? (page 185)
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2. The "Making" of Vasil Levski (page 203)
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3. A Banner for all Causes: Appropriating the Hero (page 237)
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4. Contesting the Hero (page 267)
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5. The Literary and Visual Hypostases of the Hero (page 289)
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6. From Hero for All to Dissident and Back (page 307)
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PART III. The National Hero as Secular Saint: The Canonization of Levski (page 347)
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1. The Split, or How a Bicephalous Organism Functions (page 359)
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2. The Canonization and Its Implications (page 373)
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3. Levski and the Bulgarian Church: Memory and Narration (page 399)
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4. The Orchestration of a Grassroots Cultus (page 429)
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5. Commemoration, Rituals, and the Sacred (page 447)
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6. Heroes and Saints: the Dialectics of Reincarnation (page 477)
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CONCLUSION (page 503)
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APPENDIX (page 515)
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I. The Scholarly Consensus on the 1956 Excavations until the 1980s in the Writings of Stamen Mikhailov: A Critical Analysis (page 517)
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II. The Discussion at the Academy of Sciences: 10, 12, and 27 February 1986 (page 528)
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III. Letter of 20 Bulgarian Historians to Todor Zhivkov, 4 May 1987 (page 562)
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IV. Poems Written by Citizens on the Topic of Levski's Grave (page 567)
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V. Letter of Radka Poptomova, April 1987 (page 571)
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VI. Letter of the Medieval Archeology Section at AI, June 2001 (page 576)
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VII. The Double-headed Hierarchy of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church (1996-2004) (page 577)
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VIII. School Questionnaires on Levski (page 579)
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INDEX (page 587)
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Published: c2009
Publisher: Central European University Press
- 9786155211638 (ebook)
- 9789639776241 (hardcover)