Dr. Vihra Barova is a culturologist by education, completing the master's program in Cultural Anthropology at the Department of History and Theory of Culture, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski ”(2004). She was a doctoral student at the Ethnographic Institute with a museum at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and specialized in social anthropology at the Max Planck Institute, Halle, Germany as a fellow of the Marie Curie Doctoral Program in Social Anthropology (2008-2009). Winner of the first prize of SIEF (International Scientific Society of Ethnology and Folklore) for the best dissertation of a young scientist in ethnology (2011). Since 2018 she has been an associate professor at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore with the Ethnographic Museum at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
Dr Bavova has worked on a series of projects dedicated to youth subcultures and cultural differences. In recent years, her interests have focused on strategies and ways of using natural and cultural resources in mountain and semi-mountainous areas threatened by economic marginalization (in the Middle Rhodopes and the Middle Fore-Balkans), in particular on attempts to combine climate and natural resources. production, tourism and festival culture. In this context, she studies culinary traditions in small towns. In this direction are her latest publications related to the production, presentation and consumption of food as heritage: Barova, V. Sirena and truffles - food as heritage. Bulgarian Ethnology, XLIV, 4, Publishing House of BAS "Prof. Marin Drinov ”(2019), 438-451; Barova, V. Gastrostrategies of the producers of natural dairy products in the conditions of Europeanization and globalization (following examples from Lovech and Smolyan). Petrov, P., Iv. Petrova (ed.) Agrocultural Transformations in the Conditions of Europeanization and Globalization, Sofia: Gutenberg (2018), 199-223; Barova, V .. Globalizing effects of alternative tourism on local practices and productions (based on materials from Smolyan region). Petrov, P., Iv. Petrova (ed.) Agrocultural Transformations in the Conditions of Europeanization and Globalization, Sofia: Gutenberg (2018), 304-318.
Selected publications
2015-2018 „Transformations of Local Agricultural Practices under Conditions of Europeanisation andGlobalisation”. Main institution: the Institute for Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences; partner: Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research - the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Funded by the Scientific Research Fund, Ministry of Education and Science, Bulgaria.
2019-2023 “Culinary traditions and cultural and historical heritage in small settlements - invention, exploitation, promotion”. Main institution: Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Ethnology Department
Барова, В. Сирена и трюфели – храната като наследство. [Cheese and Truffles – the Food as a Heritage]. Българска етнология, XLIV, 4, Издателство на БАН „Проф. Марин Дринов“ (2019), 438-451;
Барова, В. Гастростратегии на производителите на натурални млечни продукти в условията на европеизация и глобализация (по примери от Ловешко и Смолянско). [Gastrostrategies of the Producers of Natural Dairy Products in the Conditions of Europeanization and Globalization (examples from Lovech and Smolyan)]. Петров, П., Ив. Петрова (ред.) Агрокултурни трансформации в условията на европеизация и глобализация, София: Гутенберг (2018), 199-223;
Барова, В.. Глобализиращи ефекти на алтернативния туризъм върху местните практики и производства (по материали от Смолянско). [Globalizing Effects of Alternative Tourism on Local Practices and Productions (based on materials from Smolyan region)]. Петров, П., Ив. Петрова (ред.) Агрокултурни трансформации в условията на европеизация и глобализация, София: Гутенберг (2018), 304-318.
Contact
Acad. G. Bonchev Str., bl. 6, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria
E-mail:vihra.barova@iefem.bas.bg