"ĽEPŠUO ZDRAVJA JAKO MÄD ĽÍZAŇJA", ALEBO NANÁROČNÁ REFLEXIA POHĽADU NA CESTOVANIE A VECÍ S NÍM SPOJENÝCH V ÉRE BUDOVANIA ROZVINUTEJ SOCIALISTICKEJ SPOLOČNOSTI

• Authors: Podoba Juraj

Title variants

EN

'Health is better than beauties of the world': Unsophisticated contemplation on travelling and its aspects during the era of building the developed socialistic society

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

The paper aims to explore Slovak villagers' attitudes towards travelling and tourism during the period of the late socialism. Travelling and tourism might have been perceived as expressions of urban life style, the way of spending free time, or the recreational activities connected with travelling. The author considers his personal experience during the 1970s and 1980s. As a young tourist he was confronted with the attitudes of the Slovak official representatives towards a life style that was rather strange for them. When the conservative inhabitants of Slovak country-side were confronted with the young people from the urban families brought up on the Seton's principles of living in natural environment, the similar clash of two systems of values or two different life perspectives occurred. The author completes his observations by two ethnographic descriptions of the episodes that took place during his long-term field research of Slovak highlanders in the second half of the 1980s.

Keywords

EN

CULTURAL CONFLICT; CULTURAL CONSERVATISM; SLOVAK ETHNOGRAPHIC FIELD RESEARCH; SLOVAK HIGHLANDERS; TOURISM; TRAVELLING

Discipline

• ETHNOLOGY: ETHNOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Ethnology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovak Ethnological Society, and Slovak National Museum - Ethnological Museum (in Martin)
• Journal: Etnologické rozpravy (Ethnological Disputes)
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 14
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 138-146
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Podoba Juraj

• J. Podoba, for postal address contact the journal editor

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

08SKAAAA03537208