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  • Volume 7: The Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies
    Vol. 7 No. 1 (2024)

    Nature and culture have hundreds of aspects and manifestations in modern societies. Volume 7 of the Yearbook of the Balkan and Baltic Studies aims to highlight some of the trends emerging and results achieved in the field of cultural studies, demonstrating how culture and nature interrelate and complement each other. The volume contains a series of articles on religion, human-nature relations, linguistic phenomena, crises, specific spheres of folklore, activities of the Tartu-Moscow School, and the mindscape of a notable individual.

  • Volume 6: The Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies
    Vol. 6 No. 1 (2023)

    The sixth issue of The Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies discuss the problems of Nature and Culture, traditions, and rituals in the Balkan and Baltic contexts: the primary focus is on practical ecological studies and human opinions of the processes taking place, the practices of submerged villagers to commemorate their place of residence, old and new practices in medicine (including those related to COVID-19) and the arc of life, folklore phenomena and research history.

    Editors for this issue are Mare Kõiva and Sergey Troitskiy

  • Volume 5: The Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies
    Vol. 5 No. 1 (2022)

    The fifth issue of The Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies discuss memory, traditions, and rituals in the Balkan and Baltic contexts: what is happening with the traditional, religious and secular landscape in the Balkan and Baltic countries, Europe, and the world? What are the new aspects of the development of modern spirituality? What happens to memory, historical interpretations, and visions of the future in modern contexts? Are traditional beliefs, folklore, and rituals still relevant in the modern world? How is cultural heritage being preserved during migration and in new surroundings?

    Editors for this issue are Irina Sedakova, Nina Vlaskina and Irina Stahl

  • Volume 4: The Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies
    Vol. 4 No. 1 (2021)

    The fourth issue of The Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies presents the research on spirituality, religion, identity and culture in the Baltic and Balkan regions and analyse the dynamics of religious and national transformations. The research cover not only global processes and the dynamics of specifically European processes, it also provide insights into situations of what Michael Herzfeld has called ‘cultural intimacy’ and the place of belonging. The issue includes fourteen articles and information on recently published books.

    Editors for this issue are Inese Runce and Robert Parkin.

  • Volume 3: The Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies
    Vol. 3 No. 1 (2020)

    The third issue of The Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic studies is dwelling on the major theme “Tracking the ritual year on the move in different cultural settings and systems of values”. The articles scrutinize the development of holidays and values in the rapidly changing world. The authors show that the axiological system and the hierarchy of celebrations are tightly connected with the ideology, religion, philosophy, economy, fashion, international contacts and are permanently on the move.
    Theory and practice in the humanitarian and social fields of the Balkan and Baltic countries are presented in the second part of the issue by the papers on the development of Baltic languages and cultures academic investigations, on the case study of a folk festival in Albania and on a statistics analysis of the school holidays in Estonia.
    The issue includes information on jubilees, new research projects and recently published books.

    Editors for this issue are Laurent S. Fournier & Irina Sedakova

  • Volume 2: The Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies
    Vol. 2 No. 1 (2019)

    The second issue of The Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies is dedicated to ritual and festive culture (Rituals, Feasts, and Practices). It is one of the most dynamic fields of modern culture. On the other hand, it tends to be the most conservative and nationally (ethnically) coloured one. Both calendar and family ritualism are the main subject of these papers.

    The second part in the volume is dedicated to ethnicity and its manifestations in the context of modern identification processes (Ethnicity and Its Manifestations: Identities). Numerous ethnic markers that form ethnic boundaries (cf. Fredrik Barth) continue to develop, acquiring new attractive shapes, going along with the new times, tastes, needs, and, of course, market demand. 

    Editors for this issue are Ekaterina Anastasova, Mare Kõiva, Žilvytis Šaknys.

  • Volume 1: The Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies
    Vol. 1 No. 1 (2018)

    The key topic for this issue is the situation in the field of religion in the modern world. This topic has become especially relevant in recent years (and decades), when we have been observing a number of large-scale religious processes in Europe, and also on a global scale. On the one hand, for the post-Socialist countries, it has been
    a period of boisterous flourishing and extensive freedom in terms of religion. 
    The second part of the edition deals with the problems covered by the topic of Cities, Cultures, and Migrations.

    Editors for this issue are Ekaterina Anastasova, Mare Kõiva, Žilvytis Šaknys.