Mary Neuburger, “The Orient Within: Muslim Minorities and the Negotiation of Nationhood in Modern Bulgaria (Cornell UP, 2004)
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The History of the Name Changes in Bulgaria
The way that Muslim were tended to be in some cases would even cover them now but it tended to be looked under the chin and tied sort of around the front. And so actually many documents for Communist Party members would say, why can't they just tie their scarves in the back instead of the front? But I think on the local level there's always cues. The way that scarves wore, the color of the hoods scarves, all of this,. There are all kinds of ethnic cues in that. It's differentiated populations. One way of wearing it is somehow oppressive and connected to Islam and the other is somehow progressive. Christian or European rather is really problematic. Yeah, no
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