FOLK COSTUME IN GORNA PRESPA

Abstract

The manuscript entitled “Folk Costume in Gorna Prespa”, authored by Anica Antova, is a typewritten seminar paper submitted in 1949 as part of her studies in ethnology at the Faculty of Philosophy in Skopje, under the mentorship of Prof. Dr. Branislav Rusić. The text was written by the distinguished Macedonian ethnologist Anica Petruševa (née Antova), whose scholarly engagement with folk costume originated during her university studies and subsequently developed into a defining focus of her professional career.

Petruševa’s sustained research on folk costume, embroidery, and textile traditions established her as one of the foremost specialists in this field in Macedonia. Her analytical approach to the structural, aesthetic, and regional characteristics of traditional dress significantly contributed to the systematization of knowledge in Macedonian ethnology.

The preservation of this seminar paper is owed to the meticulous archival care of Prof. Dr. Branislav Rusić, whose complete scholarly legacy is housed in the “Haralampije Polenaković” Archive at the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts. The present transcription of the manuscript has been prepared by Prof. Dr. Ljupcho S. Risteski. The text is reproduced in its original linguistic form, without editorial standardization or proofreading interventions, in order to retain and document the linguistic features characteristic of the Macedonian language of the late 1940s.