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Bektashi – enter and see

Original title Bektaši – Vlezi i vidi

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English – Bektaši, turška muslimanska skupnost v vasi Kanatlarci, so od 16. stoletja dalje razdeljeni na dva tabora. Vsak od njih se proglaša za naslednika njihovega vodje Babe. Eni zagovarjajo, da je funkcija vodje dedna, drugi, da pripada funkcija najzaslužnejšemu svoje generacije. Posledica teh razlik je, da imajo dve molilni mesti in tudi ašuro, ki je njihov glavni letni praznik, praznujejo ločeno. Film prikazuje priprave na ašuro, komentarje ljudi o značilnostih njihove kulture in vere ter o razmerju do sosednjih muslimanskih in nemuslimanskih skupnosti v Makedoniji.

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Author/s Elizabeta Koneska

Elizabeta Koneska,
ethnologist, senior curator in Museum of Macedonia, Skopje. 1984, Graduated at the Department of Ethnology at the Belgrade University. 1993, A Master’s degree at the Department of History of Art at the Mimar Sinan University in Istanbul, Turkey. Since she have learned Turkish language she research the traditional Turkish culture in Macedonia, Turkish ethnic minorities and ethnic and religious identity in other Muslims groups, as an different groups of dervishes orders and Macedonian speaking Muslims.
Filmography:
1993/94 The Iron Church Above the Water, 1994 As We would Go to Istanbul, 1997 Profession in Motion — Tinsmiths from Krusevo, 2000 The Sound of Hamer, 2002 The Belgrade Coppersmith, 2003 Adak / Oath, 2004 Badnik and Kolede, Rusalii, 2005 The Day of Ashure, 2006 Bektashi — enter and see.

Research Elizabeta Koneska
Photography Robert Jankuloski
Sound Robert Jankuloski
Editing Blaže Dulev, Elizabeta Koneska