AN ACADEMIC BOOK ABOUT BULGARIAN KINSHIP, ITS VALUES AND LOYALTIES

Abstract

In 2025, the publication of a two-volume work by the ethnologists Maria Ivanova and Elya Tzaneva, Kinship and Its Institutions in Bulgarian Pre-Industrial Culture, was completed by Prof. Marin Drinov Academic Publishing House. The work is divided into two volumes: Vol. 1. Ethnology of Kinship. Institutions of Blood and Marital Kinship (408 pages and 30 archival photographs); Vol. 2. Institutions of Fictitious and Ritual Kinship. Towards a Sociocultural Characterisation of Kinship (520 pages and 30 archival photographs); reference apparatus for both volumes and biobibliographical information about the authors in Vol. 2; hard covers with a photograph on the front and a review text on the back cover of each volume.