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Jozef Obrebski in Macedonia, 1931-1932
Jozef Obrebski was one of distinguished protégés of the renowned anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski, and a pioneering ethnographer of the Balkans. After receiving his masters degree in Slavic ethnography from the University of Krakow in 1930, Obrebski turned to a study of cultural persistence and change among the Balkan peasantry. During the years 1931 and 1932, he traveled, camera in hand, through Volče and other mountain villages in Macedonia recording data about social structure and ritual processes.
Returning to London, Obrebski completed his doctorate in 1934 and shortly thereafter joined the faculty at the Free University of Warsaw. His career, however, was repeatedly interrupted by the course of world events. After the Nazis entered Poland, Obrebski joined the resistance and taught in the Warsaw Underground University, but with the Soviet occupation in 1946, he decided to leave Poland for good. He later held positions at the London School of Economics, the United Nations, Brooklyn and Queens Colleges, and C.W. Post University. He died at age 62 on December 28, 1967.
The photographs in this gallery represent a small sample of the hundreds of images taken by Obrebski during his sojourn in Macedonia.
селото Волче - Порече, каде истражувал антропологот Јозеф Омбрембски во 1931/32
Monthly consecration of water.
Village: Volče
Ritual breadbreaking in front of the church and singing over it [the Slava ceremony]. Village: Volče
Ritual slaughtering of sacrificial hen (father and daughter). Village: Volče
Keyword: Christmas Eve
Feeding cattle with ritual fodder. Village: Volče
Keyword: Christmas Eve
Ritual slaughtering of a hen and producing ritual fodder for cattle (collecting blood). Brother and sister. Village: Volče
Keyword: Christmas Eve
Zhar-piltsi [fertility ritual]. Village: Volče
Keyword: Christmas Eve
Putting tree trunk (badnik) into the fire. Village: Volče
Keyword: Christmas
Fortune-telling with the use of amkaliya - shelled egg used also for other ritual purposes. Village: Volče
Keyword: Divination
Kabilitsa [fortune telling using a chicken backbone]. Village: Volče
Keyword: Divination
Preparing knots (vrzultsi) [for magical “tying” and “untying” diseases].
Village: Volče
Keyword: Folk medicine
Sprained arm.
Village: Volče
Keyword: Folk medicine
Treatment for sekaitsa – disease caused by evil eye and hunger. Village: Volče
Keyword: Folk medicine
Treatment for illness brought by the wind (odvietra). Village: Volče
Keyword: Folk medicine
Symbolic “quenching” of the water. Taking soil from beside the grave. Village: Volče
Keyword: Folk medicine
Eye treatment. Village: Volče
Keyword: Folk medicine
Putting an earthenware pot onto patient's abdomen. Village: Volče
Keyword: Folk medicine
Eye treatment. Village: Volče
Keyword: Folk medicine
Dragging through the wolf’s mouth. Village: Volče
Keyword: Folk medicine
The patient is given “dead water” to drink. Central act. 4. Village: Volče
Keyword: Folk medicine
[SIZE=+2]Jozef Obrambski[/SIZE]
Authors of the book :
Tanas Vrazinski
Vladimir Karadzoski
Sonja Jovanovska - Rizoska
With realization of the Jozef Obrambski project, major international explorer of the Macedonia national culture, Macedonian science recived five very important books which made-up the emptiness of the Macedonian folklore, ethnology and sociology between the world wars. Nobody has left such rich material, only from one area of Macedonia. True, the work of Obrambski and his work, we can see the national entity, the language, culture and ideology that was on the territory in that time..
The medicine women of Volče.
Village: Volče
Keyword: Folk medicine
Preparing poultice on the stomach. Village: Volče
Keyword: Folk medicine

Jozef Obrebski was one of distinguished protégés of the renowned anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski, and a pioneering ethnographer of the Balkans. After receiving his masters degree in Slavic ethnography from the University of Krakow in 1930, Obrebski turned to a study of cultural persistence and change among the Balkan peasantry. During the years 1931 and 1932, he traveled, camera in hand, through Volče and other mountain villages in Macedonia recording data about social structure and ritual processes.
Returning to London, Obrebski completed his doctorate in 1934 and shortly thereafter joined the faculty at the Free University of Warsaw. His career, however, was repeatedly interrupted by the course of world events. After the Nazis entered Poland, Obrebski joined the resistance and taught in the Warsaw Underground University, but with the Soviet occupation in 1946, he decided to leave Poland for good. He later held positions at the London School of Economics, the United Nations, Brooklyn and Queens Colleges, and C.W. Post University. He died at age 62 on December 28, 1967.
The photographs in this gallery represent a small sample of the hundreds of images taken by Obrebski during his sojourn in Macedonia.
селото Волче - Порече, каде истражувал антропологот Јозеф Омбрембски во 1931/32

Monthly consecration of water.
Village: Volče

Ritual breadbreaking in front of the church and singing over it [the Slava ceremony]. Village: Volče

Ritual slaughtering of sacrificial hen (father and daughter). Village: Volče
Keyword: Christmas Eve

Feeding cattle with ritual fodder. Village: Volče
Keyword: Christmas Eve

Ritual slaughtering of a hen and producing ritual fodder for cattle (collecting blood). Brother and sister. Village: Volče
Keyword: Christmas Eve

Zhar-piltsi [fertility ritual]. Village: Volče
Keyword: Christmas Eve

Putting tree trunk (badnik) into the fire. Village: Volče
Keyword: Christmas

Fortune-telling with the use of amkaliya - shelled egg used also for other ritual purposes. Village: Volče
Keyword: Divination

Kabilitsa [fortune telling using a chicken backbone]. Village: Volče
Keyword: Divination

Preparing knots (vrzultsi) [for magical “tying” and “untying” diseases].
Village: Volče
Keyword: Folk medicine

Sprained arm.
Village: Volče
Keyword: Folk medicine

Treatment for sekaitsa – disease caused by evil eye and hunger. Village: Volče
Keyword: Folk medicine

Treatment for illness brought by the wind (odvietra). Village: Volče
Keyword: Folk medicine

Symbolic “quenching” of the water. Taking soil from beside the grave. Village: Volče
Keyword: Folk medicine

Eye treatment. Village: Volče
Keyword: Folk medicine

Putting an earthenware pot onto patient's abdomen. Village: Volče
Keyword: Folk medicine

Eye treatment. Village: Volče
Keyword: Folk medicine

Dragging through the wolf’s mouth. Village: Volče
Keyword: Folk medicine

The patient is given “dead water” to drink. Central act. 4. Village: Volče
Keyword: Folk medicine

[SIZE=+2]Jozef Obrambski[/SIZE]
Authors of the book :
Tanas Vrazinski
Vladimir Karadzoski
Sonja Jovanovska - Rizoska
With realization of the Jozef Obrambski project, major international explorer of the Macedonia national culture, Macedonian science recived five very important books which made-up the emptiness of the Macedonian folklore, ethnology and sociology between the world wars. Nobody has left such rich material, only from one area of Macedonia. True, the work of Obrambski and his work, we can see the national entity, the language, culture and ideology that was on the territory in that time..

The medicine women of Volče.
Village: Volče
Keyword: Folk medicine

Preparing poultice on the stomach. Village: Volče
Keyword: Folk medicine
