Tanec v denících, pamětech a memoárové literatuře: interpretační dilema

• Authors: Daniela Stavělová

Title variants

EN

Dance in Diaries, Memories and Memoirs: a Dilemma of Interpretation

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The study introduces resources of folk origin, which has almost not been used by the ethnology so far and which can bring valuable evidences about the lived form of folk dance culture. The development of those resources relates to the period when a kind of well-read persons or amateur writers came from village society, who paid their attention to farmers´ economic matters; they were interested in the expressions of social and cultural life, as well as in patriotic events in the second half of the 19th century. A special attention is paid here to the description of dance parties as a part of the events of that period. The interpretation of these resources requires combining of different methods and approaches; the ethnochoreology is supported here both by the attitude of so-called new cultural history focused on the study of mentalities, and by narrative approach. The source material is understood as life stories that simultaneously express the situations and contexts within which they were produced. The following issues constitute the basic dilemmas of interpretation: whether the structure of what is interpreted (text) or its function (context) should be accentuated, if one should focus on content or form, whether one should proceed on a part or a whole, and if the interpretation should be aimed at an individual or culture.

Keywords

EN

dance; dancescape; historic source; narrative approach; cultural history; mentalities

Discipline

• ETHNOLOGY: ETHNOLOGY

• Publisher: The National Institute of Folk Culture
• Journal: Národopisná revue (Journal of Ethnology)
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 24
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 91 - 100

Contributors

author

Daniela Stavělová