ABSTRACT The article explores the concept of endogamy from the viewpoint of boundary construction in social anthropology. The author summarizes scholarly accounts of endogamy that conceptualize endogamy in terms of ethnicity, race, locality, or language. She argues that to determine an endogamous group, we should proceed from the actors´ point of view and ask what criteria the actors themselves consider as culturally meaningful. On the example of marriages of Czech- and Slovak-speaking Protestants in the Bulgarian village of Voyvodovo in 1900–1950 the author shows what these marriages and the actors´ perspective reveal about the character of the us/them boundary. The data are based on a long-term anthropological fieldwork using mainly participant observation, interviews and the genealogical method, along with the analysis of the local parish registers for the period 1900–1950. The inhabitants of the village that has been habitually represented a ‘compatriot village’ in the scholarly literature are depicted as constituting their identity more on religion than on shared ethnicity. The results of the research suggest that the villagers preferred people of the same religion as marriage partners, without any regard to their ethnicity or language. The author argues that the study of marriage rules should follow the same principles anthropologists have widely applied to the study of ethnicity: i.e. to focus on the differences people consider to be significant in constructing the boundaries between groups rather than to assume objective criteria delimiting endogamous groups.

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种族与宗教之间的内婚。伏伊伏多沃（保加利亚）的婚姻和边界建设，1900–1950年

摘要本文从社会人类学的边界建构的角度探讨了内婚制的概念。作者总结了关于同性配偶的学术观点，这些概念从种族，种族，地方或语言方面将同性配偶概念化。她认为，要确定一个内婚群体，我们应该从演员的角度出发，并询问演员自己认为具有文化意义的标准是什么。以1900-1950年保加利亚村庄Voyvodovo中讲捷克语和斯洛伐克语的新教徒的婚姻为例，作者证明了这些婚姻和演员的观点揭示了我们边界的特征。数据基于长期的人类学田野调查，主要采用参与者观察，访谈和家谱方法，以及对1900-1950年间当地教区教籍的分析。在学术文献中习惯上代表“同胞之乡”的村庄居民被描绘为在宗教上而非共同种族上更多地构成了他们的身份。研究结果表明，村民偏爱与婚姻伴侣具有相同宗教信仰的人，而不考虑其种族或语言。作者认为，婚姻规则的研究应遵循人类学家广泛应用于种族研究的相同原则：即，关注人们认为在构建群体之间的界限方面很重要的差异，而不是假定界定内婚配偶群体的客观标准。 。在学术文献中习惯上代表“同胞之乡”的村庄居民被描绘为在宗教上而非共同种族上更多地构成了他们的身份。研究结果表明，村民偏爱与婚姻伴侣具有相同宗教信仰的人，而不考虑其种族或语言。作者认为，婚姻规则的研究应遵循人类学家广泛应用于种族研究的相同原则：即，关注人们认为在构建群体之间的界限方面很重要的差异，而不是假定界定内婚配偶群体的客观标准。 。在学术文献中习惯上代表“同胞之乡”的村庄居民被描绘为在宗教上而非共同种族上更多地构成了他们的身份。研究结果表明，村民偏爱与婚姻伴侣具有相同宗教信仰的人，而不考虑其种族或语言。作者认为，婚姻规则的研究应遵循人类学家广泛应用于种族研究的相同原则：即，关注人们认为在构建群体之间的界限方面很重要的差异，而不是假定界定内婚配偶群体的客观标准。 。