Examining Boundaries of an Ethnography of Communication

Boundaries, like fences work in two ways. They can lie inclusive, containing, or they can be exclusive, withholding . One\u27s viewpoint depends on what side of the fence one is on. Tha Norwegian anthropologist Fredrik Barth investigated boundaries in terms of ethnicity and territorial definitions and not the cultural stuff that they enclose. British social anthropologist Edmund Leach dealt with abstract notions of time and space . The present paper isolates a discrete segment of cultural stuff and concretely examines its position in making boundaries. The loci of this commentary are two well-studied Bulgarian villages, Dragalevtsy anti Bistritsa, on the western flank of Mount Vitosha