Eleanor Wenkart Smollett
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Item Open Access The Social Transformation of the Bulgarian Countryside(Hindustan Press, 1984) Smollett, Eleanor WenkartItem Open Access Remembering Kathleen Gough...Her Study and Support of Socialism(Anthropologica, 1993) Smollett, EleanorItem Open Access America the Beautiful: Made in Bulgaria(Anthropology Today Vol. 9 No. 2, 1993-04) Smollett, EleanorItem Open Access Life Cycle and Career Cycle in Socialist Bulgaria(Culture, 1989) Smollett, Eleanor WenkartThe author examines changes in the interaction between life cycle patterns and career patterns during the period of socialist development in Bulgaria. She explores the implications for the interconnected problems of young people and middle-aged people regarding their roles - productive and reproductive - in the society. The author has made eight research trips to Bulgaria, over an eighteen year period. As background to the analysis, the author reviews the changes in Bulgarian society up to summer, 1989, particularly developments during the socialist period from 1944.Item Open Access The Economy of Jars: Kindred Relationships in Bulgaria - An Exploration(Ethnologia Europaea, 1989) Smollett, Eleanor WenkartPeople transform inherited cultural patterns to serve their needs under new circumstances. Networks of kindred relationships exemplify this process. Under socialist conditions in Bulgaria, kindred relationships assist in people's transitions from cooperative farming to the working class, and from rural to urban life. Kin connections also contribute to solving life problems for which social solutlons a re not yet adequately institutionalized. Research should examine kin networks in their contemporary roles, rather than viewing the importance of kinship connections as merely an anachronism.Item Open Access Settlement Systems in Bulgaria - Socialist Planning for the Integration of Rural and Urban Life(Institute of Cultural and Social Studies, University of Leiden, 1985) Smollett, Eleanor WenkartItem Open Access Implications of the Multi-Community Production Cooperative for Rural Life In Bulgaria or the Demise of the Kara Stoyanka(Bulgarian Journal of Sociology Vol. 3, 1980) Smollett, EleanorItem Open Access Bulgaria: Textbook and Reality(PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIRST BANFF CONFERENCE ON CENTRAL AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES, 1977-03-03) Smollett, Eleanor W.