Gerald W. Creed analyzes contemporary mumming rituals in rural
Bulgaria for what they reveal about life after socialism and the
current state of postsocialist studies. Mumming rituals have
flourished in the post-Soviet era. Elaborately costumed dancers go
from house to house demanding sustenance and bestowing blessings.
Through the analysis of these rites, Creed critiques key themes in
postsocialist studies, including understandings of civil society
and democracy, gender and sexuality, autonomy and community, and
ethnicity and nationalism. He argues that these events reveal
indigenous cultural resources that could have been used both
practically and intellectually to ease the postsocialist
reconstruction of Bulgarian society, but were not."
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