Vol 2, No 8 2001 pp. 457 - 463
UDC 39(=914.99)(497.2)+316.66(=914.99)(497.2)

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THE PUBLIC ATTITUDES GYPSIES - BULGARIANS
(Reflection on one Ethnographic Exhibition)
Mirella Decheva
Ethnographic Institute and Museum, Bulgarian Academy of Science, Sofia, Bulgaria

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Abstract. The present paper does not intend to draw generalizations about the image of the Gypsies in present-day Bulgarian society, all the more so because the efforts of a number of research and social workers and politicians have not produced satisfactory results in this respect. As practice has made it clear, generalizations and universal prescriptions do not produce the most perspective means of projecting the image of the "other" - in this case of the (Gypsy) minority, in the eyes of the (Bulgarian) majority. What I am trying to do is to present to you an isolated case - the experience the National Ethnographic Museum (NEM) at the Bulgarian Academy of Science (BAS) gained as a result of an ethnographic exhibition about the Bulgarian Gypsies.
Key words: Bulgarian Gypsies, image of the Gypsies

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JAVNI STAVOVI O BUGARSKIM ROMIMA Namera autora nije da u radu opiše generalizacije o predstavi Roma u današnjem bugarskom društvu, pogotovu što brojni istraživači, socijalni radnici i političari nisu pružili zadovoljavajuće i respektabilne rezultate. Autor je pokušao da predstavu o Ťdrugomť, na slučaju romske manjine u očima bugarske većine, pruži preko izolovanog primera: etnografske izložbe o bugarskim Romima u Nacionalnom etnografskom muzeju Bugarske akademije nauka.
Ključne reči: bugarski Romi, predstava o Romima