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Visual Ethnography Among the Balkan Pomak
Author(s) -
BALIKCI ASEN
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
visual anthropology review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.346
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1548-7458
pISSN - 1058-7187
DOI - 10.1525/var.2007.23.1.92
Subject(s) - ethnography , peasant , portrait , bulgarian , multiculturalism , style (visual arts) , fundamentalism , nationalism , sociology , gender studies , history , anthropology , political science , art , visual arts , art history , politics , law , philosophy , pedagogy , linguistics , archaeology
This is a brief description of four ethnographic films about the Pomak, Bulgarian speaking Muslims inhabiting the Rhodopi mountains in Southern Bulgaria. The first (1994) is the result of a training workshop in visual ethnography for local boys and girls living in a multicultural setting. The second (1995) describes the roles of Pomak women in a traditional village while the third (1995) is a portrait of an elderly Pomak peasant after 50 years of communist rule. The last production (2004) is a statement about the complex ideological pressures felt by the Pomak stemming from Islamic fundamentalism, peripheral pan‐Turkism, Bulgarian school nationalism, American style mass culture, etc.