Slovenský národopis (Slovak Ethnology)

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SLOVENSKÝ NÁRODOPIS JOURNAL ( Slovak Ethnology journal) OVER THE PAST FIFTY YEARS IN THE CONTEXT OF EUROPEAN PERIODICALS

Z. Uherek

Slovenský národopis (Slovak Ethnology) > 2004 > 52 > 1 > 53-65

Surveying the fifty-year-long history of Slovenský národopis (SN), it is possible to speak first about its remarkable stability. During its whole existence it has retained a scientific bias as the overwhelming majority of the published texts has been based in empirical field research. A study of the traditional rural culture was soon complemented by research into the urban environment. A continually...

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HOMELESS PEOPLE IN BRATISLAVA (EMPIRIC PROBE)

N. Benova

Slovenský národopis (Slovak Ethnology) > 2004 > 52 > 1 > 32-53

Concept of homelessness is closely intertwined with concept of poverty. People, who miss home, miss the place and institution where numerous needs are easily satisfied. Homeless people could satisfy very ordinary needs like health diet, clothing, bodily cleanness and tidiness but with exceptional effort. Therefore, concepts of poverty and homelessness are inclusive, not synonymous. To be poor does...

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TRANSFORMATION OF POLITICAL CAPITAL IN A TOWN MICROSTRUCTURE: DOLNÝ KUBIN IN 1900 - 1950 (A CASE STUDY)

I. Bumova

Slovenský národopis (Slovak Ethnology) > 2004 > 52 > 1 > 1-32

The authoress analyses cases of political capital transfer in a small-town environment between 1900 and 1952. The focus of her study are representatives of the middle class and elite, who held both the executive power and the economic power at Dolný Kubin. Of her special interest are historical turning points that caused the transfer of executive power and economic power to the innerly differentiated...

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RITUAL AND EVERYDAY CONSUMPTION PRACTICES IN THE CZECH AND POLISH COUNTRYSIDE: CONCEIVING MODERNITY THROUGH CHANGING FOOD REGIMES

H. Haukanes, F. Pine

Slovenský národopis (Slovak Ethnology) > 2004 > 52 > 2 > 103-121

This article is concerned with consumption, and with ways in which practices. We are particularly interested in ways local preparation and consumption of food may reflect and hence give us insight into ideas and ideologies of tradition and modernity. The material we discuss comes from two former socialist countries, the Czech Republic and Poland. These countries present a particularly interesting...

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DECOLECTIVISATION AND THE STRATEGY FOR SURVIVAL OF POST-SOCIALIST AGRICULTURAL CO-OPERATIVE FARMS

O. Danglova

Slovenský národopis (Slovak Ethnology) > 2004 > 52 > 2 > 122-139

A key aspects of the radical structural political and economic changes after 1989 are interlinked with a profound transformation of the rural environment.Pointing out strategies for survival adopted by agricultural farms as the dominant type of agricultural institutions in former Czechoslovakia, the writer attempts to show the relation between changes carried out at the national level and those at...

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COGNITIVE ASPECTS OF COEXISTENCE OF CHRISTIAN AND FOLK BELIEFS: INTERPRETATIONS OF MISFORTUNE IN SLOVAK RURAL FOLK TALE

T. Buzekova

Slovenský národopis (Slovak Ethnology) > 2004 > 52 > 2 > 140-152

The article aims to explore the possibility of coexistence of two sets of beliefs - Christian beliefs and folk beliefs - on the individual level. Folk beliefs often contradict Christian doctrine. They are nevertheless spread in rural Slovak population, which is mainly Christian. The aim of the article is to answer two mutually related questions concerning this problem: What are the attitudes of Christian...

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FROM THE MOTHERLAND TO EXILE: THE EXPERIENCE OF PROSECUTED LUTHERAN PRIESTS IN EXILE DURING THE 17TH CENTURY

E. Kowalska

Slovenský národopis (Slovak Ethnology) > 2004 > 52 > 3 > 249-269

The authoress deals with the situation when the considerable part of the Lutheran priests and teachers was exiled as the result of forced recatholisation. She tries to explain its causes, course and perception. In the 17th century various protestant groups (Anabaptists, the wave of exilians after the battle of Bila Hora) chose Hungary as a country of exile. After the disclosure of Palatine Wesselenyi's...

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FOLKLORE MECHANISMS IN COMMUNICATION SITUATION

Z. Vanovicova

Slovenský národopis (Slovak Ethnology) > 2004 > 52 > 3 > 270-281

The traditional basic method of folkloristic work is the examination of genres, i.e. tracing and recording complex classifiable verbal genres used for transmitting the folklore depictions and their particular bearers. However, these communication events have been most frequently extracted from the specific communication context represented by a spontanneous and natural interaction of two or more people...

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ANALYSIS OF ADAPTATION STRATEGIES TO SOCIAL AND ECONOMICAL CHANGES

M. Bajcanova, A. Mentel

Slovenský národopis (Slovak Ethnology) > 2004 > 52 > 3 > 282-303

This paper deals with the problem of life strategies, their creating, existing and changing. Presented model is based on the theory of Conrad Kottak representing cultural ecology school. We try to explain the choice of the concrete life strategy by the citizens in the village Liptovská Teplicka (northern Slovakia) depending on the characteristics of the environment and the set of implicit assumptions...

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TRADITIONAL IMAGES AND VIEWS LINKED TO SPINNING AND WEAVING

J. Zajonc

Slovenský národopis (Slovak Ethnology) > 2004 > 52 > 4 > 249-403

The article deals with images and views relating to spinning and weaving in Slovakia stemming from the pre-Christian thought. The writer has brought these traditional conceptions together to analyse them from the point of their genesis and frequency of occurrence in this territory, all within the scope provided by primary sources. The examination starts with a sum of primary data preserved in written...

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BEGINNING OF VILLAGE TOURISM IN SLOVAKIA

K. Novakova

Slovenský národopis (Slovak Ethnology) > 2004 > 52 > 4 > 421-436

The case study of an enterprising wine-grower brings an analysis of conditions for and development of viticulture at Dolné Oresany, a village located in a marginal but specific part of the Little-Carpathian wine-growing region in Slovakia. It describes economic and social situation of local wine-growers in the 1930s as an impulse for business activities of local people to buy, make and sell wine....

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ALBANIAN MIGRATION INTO SLOVAKIA - HISTORY, SPECIFICITY AND RELATIONS

M. Sipos

Slovenský národopis (Slovak Ethnology) > 2004 > 52 > 4 > 404-420

The objective of this study is to present the information about history and process of Albanian migration into the area of Slovak Republic. Albanians are migrants, who are less known in Slovakia. In majority society they are known especially through their profession - as an ice-cream sellers, pizza restaurants holders, gold-smitheries holders, and, in negative sense, mainly through illegal criminal...

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COMMEMORATIVE CEREMONIES: HOW INSTITUTIONS INFLUENCE IDENTIFICATION?

M. Ferencova

Slovenský národopis (Slovak Ethnology) > 2005 > 53 > 1 > 19-36

The article shows how local institutions use public events, esp. commemorative celebrations reproduce categories of identification. An ethnographic material coming from Nové Zámky - an ethnically mixed town situated in south-western Slovakia is presented here. According to the last census (2001) the town is inhabited by Slovak majority and Hungarian minority. Focusing on the activities of two cultural...

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THE INVISIBLE BASES OF TRUST HOUSEHOLD PRODUCTION, WORK AND EXCHANGE IN SLOVAKIAN VILLAGE

D. Torsello

Slovenský národopis (Slovak Ethnology) > 2005 > 53 > 1 > 5-19

The paper has considered patterns of household production and distribution in today's village economy and put them in relation to the consumption sphere, labour and interaction between villagers with regard to family land. The kind of choices that people follow are dictated by considerations that go beyond the mere search for profit or a standard of well-being. It is in the ongoing tension between...

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FAIRY-TALE BETWEEN ORAL ACCOUNTS AND LITERATURE

J. Pacalova

Slovenský národopis (Slovak Ethnology) > 2005 > 53 > 1 > 37-55

The comparative analysis of the texts' style on micro-level demonstrated that particular fairy-tales differ first of all by their style of wording. Stylistic rendering of the texts by individual authors (in the cases of Dobsinský or Nemcová we can speak about nuances of the style) have important impact on the further levels of the texts' epic structure. They strongly influence the context of environment...

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CONSPIRATION THEORIES ON THE INTERNET WEBSITES

Z. Panczova

Slovenský národopis (Slovak Ethnology) > 2005 > 53 > 2 > 152-171

The paper presents one type of potential 'new genres' or subgenres within folklore studies, called conspiracy theories. It is that kind of rumours, which deal with hidden conspiracies threatening 'our' civilization or values. They belong to the permanent indicators and agents of social conflicts and crisis. The main topics of the paper are attack on New York, Iraq war or political and religious conspiracy...

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SETTLEMENT TYPE AS AN HISTORIC CATEGORY (EXAMPLE OF PODBIEL VILLAGE)

J. Langer

Slovenský národopis (Slovak Ethnology) > 2005 > 53 > 2 > 134-151

The geography of settlement classified most Slovak villages with compact settlement as the street-type. Only new innovations from the 2nd half of the 20th century can be perceived. The author started observing this development in 1952 and he looked into the settlement structure in the village Podbiel (Orava region) in 1962. This analysis provided rich information concerning the urbanization process...

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LIFE STRATEGIES OF PEOPLE CONNECTED WITH PRIMARY AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION IN SLOVAKIA DURING 20th AND 21th CENTURY (CULTURAL, SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CONTEXT)

P. Slavkovsky

Slovenský národopis (Slovak Ethnology) > 2005 > 53 > 2 > 119-133

The influence of the political decisions on the development of agriculture and therefore on people engaging in primary agricultural production becomes more intensive with the development of civilisation. The state (its power and political elite) tends to unify social space and to control the functioning of its areas. This tendency culminated in Slovakia during the second half of 20th century in time...

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VALUE ORIENTATIONS, COLLECTIVE IDENTITIES AND VALUE CLEAVAGES IN SLOVAK SOCIETY

V. Krivy

Slovenský národopis (Slovak Ethnology) > 2005 > 53 > 3 > 262-284

The paper analyzes a few representative surveys of Slovak population. In process of value orientations scrutinizing, broadly shared values and value cleavages are in the focus. A concept of latent ideological types is an attempt to unveil hidden patterns of value orientations. We have described a relevant cultural pattern of historical continuity in political behaviour. A role of political conflict...

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ADAM PRANDA: UNKNOWN ASPECTS OF HIS PERSONALITY AND LIFE'S WORK

L. Chorvathova

Slovenský národopis (Slovak Ethnology) > 2005 > 53 > 3 > 243-261

After the years 1945-1948, the structure of scholarly life in Czechoslovakia changed dramatically. Pressure on the part of political regimes established during and immediately after the war strongly influenced the personality formation of young scholars and encouraged their conformity with official ideology. It also led to the partial loss of knowledge about previous generations of scholars. In some...

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Slovenský národopis (Slovak Ethnology)

SLOVENSKÝ NÁRODOPIS JOURNAL ( Slovak Ethnology journal) OVER THE PAST FIFTY YEARS IN THE CONTEXT OF EUROPEAN PERIODICALS

HOMELESS PEOPLE IN BRATISLAVA (EMPIRIC PROBE)

TRANSFORMATION OF POLITICAL CAPITAL IN A TOWN MICROSTRUCTURE: DOLNÝ KUBIN IN 1900 - 1950 (A CASE STUDY)

RITUAL AND EVERYDAY CONSUMPTION PRACTICES IN THE CZECH AND POLISH COUNTRYSIDE: CONCEIVING MODERNITY THROUGH CHANGING FOOD REGIMES

DECOLECTIVISATION AND THE STRATEGY FOR SURVIVAL OF POST-SOCIALIST AGRICULTURAL CO-OPERATIVE FARMS

COGNITIVE ASPECTS OF COEXISTENCE OF CHRISTIAN AND FOLK BELIEFS: INTERPRETATIONS OF MISFORTUNE IN SLOVAK RURAL FOLK TALE

FROM THE MOTHERLAND TO EXILE: THE EXPERIENCE OF PROSECUTED LUTHERAN PRIESTS IN EXILE DURING THE 17TH CENTURY

FOLKLORE MECHANISMS IN COMMUNICATION SITUATION

ANALYSIS OF ADAPTATION STRATEGIES TO SOCIAL AND ECONOMICAL CHANGES

TRADITIONAL IMAGES AND VIEWS LINKED TO SPINNING AND WEAVING

BEGINNING OF VILLAGE TOURISM IN SLOVAKIA

ALBANIAN MIGRATION INTO SLOVAKIA - HISTORY, SPECIFICITY AND RELATIONS

COMMEMORATIVE CEREMONIES: HOW INSTITUTIONS INFLUENCE IDENTIFICATION?

THE INVISIBLE BASES OF TRUST HOUSEHOLD PRODUCTION, WORK AND EXCHANGE IN SLOVAKIAN VILLAGE

FAIRY-TALE BETWEEN ORAL ACCOUNTS AND LITERATURE

CONSPIRATION THEORIES ON THE INTERNET WEBSITES

SETTLEMENT TYPE AS AN HISTORIC CATEGORY (EXAMPLE OF PODBIEL VILLAGE)

LIFE STRATEGIES OF PEOPLE CONNECTED WITH PRIMARY AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION IN SLOVAKIA DURING 20th AND 21th CENTURY (CULTURAL, SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CONTEXT)

VALUE ORIENTATIONS, COLLECTIVE IDENTITIES AND VALUE CLEAVAGES IN SLOVAK SOCIETY

ADAM PRANDA: UNKNOWN ASPECTS OF HIS PERSONALITY AND LIFE'S WORK

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