This article deals with naming practices among the Czechs who lived in the first half of 20th century in two Bulgarian villages - Vojvodovo and Belinci. It is based on fieldwork carried out among the people who migrated in 1950 from Bulgaria and settled in several towns and villages in South Moravia (region of Mikulov and Valtice), and their descendants. Naming practices of the Bulgarian Czechs are analyzed in relation to naming strategies of the Bulgarians in the given period, and it is argued that the role that was fulfilled by surnames among the Czechs was fulfilled by first names among the Bulgarians. Relationship between the naming strategies and ideas about kinship and gender are discussed further.
This text focuses on the community of portestant Bulgarian Czechs, who lived in the years 1900-1950 in two villages Vojvodovo (north-western Bulgaria) and Belinci (eastern Bulgaria). Within the frame of this community the inheritance practices and strategies of the passing of family possession between generations are analysed in relation to family relations and gender. Attention is dedicated expecially to the preponderant ideology of dividable property, the practice of transfer of the property inter vivos, the favouring of male heirs and the youngest son as inheritor of the homestead of parents. These characteristics are further analysed with respect to the family strategies, family relations and gender (im) balance within the frame of this community. The practice of heritage is analysed also with respect to the predominant subsistence strategy (agriculture) and the efforts of the parents to enable the children to keep on in this subsistence that ultimately led to the parcelling out of the land and to repeated migrations for land., Lenka J. Budilová., and Obsahuje bibliografii
The goal of the text is to sum up the existing works on religion and religiosity of the Gypsies in the Czech Republic and, to a certain extent, also in the Slovak Republic. We summarize the tendencies to be found in the academic texts on this topic and propose the positive way for the future studies and texts, which consists in the clear definition of the subject matter, and explicit use of the conceptual tools and theories.