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Document Details : Title: Prof. Bogdan Filov Subtitle: Culture-Historical Archaeology for Bulgarian Nationhood Author(s): LAZOVA, Tsvete Journal: Ancient West & East Volume: 24 Date: 2025 Pages: 237-256 DOI: 10.2143/AWE.24.0.3295120 Abstract : This paper aims to present Bogdan Filov’s legacy in constructing Bulgarian culture-historical archaeology during the interwar period, and his activities in professionalising and institutionalising it. Excluding his political career per se, I look at his internal exclusion from the Bulgarian historiography of antiquity following the Soviet takeover in 1944, and show the scope and depth of his fundamental scholarship, reproduced later in Bulgarian academic studies of antiquity. It confirms that Filov’s arguments, presented in his speech ‘Science and Politics’ (1913) are relevant to the contemporary research agenda on the archaeology-state nexus. Bulgarian critical historiography after the 1950s associated Filov with ‘bourgeois nationalism’ and was opposed by the Communist vulgata that championed a specific brand of patriotism. Therefore nationalism and patriotism are taken here with their Janus-faced character as phenomena with borders of ‘unprecedented porosity’. |
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