Preface - Vorwort - Avant-propos
1. The Danube - A Bridge of Cultural Interchange
Cvetena Georgieva, Sofia The Danube River - A Boundary of the Bulgarian Space in the 15th-17th Centuries
Klaus Roth, Munich Rivers as Bridges - Rivers as Boundaries. Some Reflections on Intercultural Exchange on the Danube
Tatjana Civian-Mihajlova, Moscow The Danube - Symbol of the Mythical Road and a Mythological Frontier
Dagmar Burkhart, Mannheim The River Danube in Balkan Slavic Folksongs
Marianne Mesnil, Brussels; Assia Popova, Paris Les eaux-delà du Danube
Sabina Ispas, Bucharest Danube, You Dustless Highway
Valentina Vasseva, Sofia Adaptation in the Funeral Customs of Resettled Communities
Margarita Karamihova, Sofia Culture Turning its Back on the Big Water
2. Ethnology of Modernisation and Transformation
Milena Benovska-Săbkova, Sofia Tradition as a Means of Survival Under the Conditions of Economic Crisis in Bulgaria
Clarissa de Waal, Cambridge Ground Level Economics in Post-Communist Albania. A Report
Christian Giordano, Fribourg; Dobrinka Kostova, Sofia Bulgarian Land Reprivatization without Peasants
Karl Kraser, Graz Family and Kinship in the Balkans. A Declining Socio-Cultural System?
Radost Ivanova, Sofia Valiant Young Men, Wrestlers, Bodyguards, Thugs ... The Hero in the Bulgarian Daily Press
3. Ethnicity, Identity, and Interethnic Relations
Bernard Lory, Paris Dangers d'ici-bas, promesses d'au-delà. Essai d'anthropologie religieuse des Confins bosniaques au XVII-e siècle
Ivan Čolović, Belgrade L'espace ethnique et la mort. Essai de thanatologie politique
Ženja Pimpereva, Sofia Traditional and Contemporary Models of Interaction Between Karakachans and Bulgarians
Svetla Rakšieva, Sofia The Nomadic Aromunians' Ideas of a Territory Under Control
4. Reports
Paul Nixon, Cambridge Ideology in Balkan Anthropological Research. Conference of the Association for Balkan Anthropology
Gheorghiţă Geana, Bucharest Notes on Cultural Anthropology in Romania
Galaba Palikruševa, Skopje The Development of Macedonian Ethnology and Folklore
Tea Škokić Review of Ethnological Work in Croatia 1990-1995
Addresses of editors and contributors