Od rituálů a obyčejů k performancím aneb jak studovat festivity moderní doby?

• Authors: Šima Karel

Title variants

EN

From ritual and custom to performance or How to study modern festivities?

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

In this article author suggests new possibilities in studying modern festivities based on thorough review of existing literature. His goal is to review and confront three disciplinary discourses that conceptualized social practices related to festive cultures. First, theories of ritual in social and cultural anthropology are analysed and assessed in relation to modern festivities. Second, the concepts of custom and habit used in the European ethnology, especially Central European tradition of Volkskunde (including Czech národopis), are presented and considered for research of modern festivities. Third, historical discourse about modern festivities is presented and theoretical challenges related to the historical perspective are introduced. On these grounds author proposes a conceptual framework based on performance studies that both reflects advantages of former three disciplinary discourses and overcomes their disadvantages. Finally, a set of new and innovative research questions is suggested.

Keywords

EN

ritual; custom; festivity; performance; social and cultural anthropology; European ethnology; history; theory

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY
• ANTHROPOLOGY: ANTHROPOLOGY
• ETHNOLOGY: ETHNOLOGY

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Studia Ethnologica Pragensia
• Year: 2017
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 17-49

Contributors

author

Šima Karel

• Ústav etnologie Filozofické fakulty Univerzity Karlovy