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This paper addresses the personification of death (a being in human or animal form) as a public representation. The public representation of death is traced among respondents from the Slovak and German language group who are residents of the town of Medzev. The author examines the nature of the individual and group representations of death held by respondents in the selected samples. She poses the research question whether there exists a cultural or long-term shared representation of death in the selected language groups, or overall in this ethnically and linguistically heterogeneous locality. Finally, she asks whether the postulated divergent representation of death between Slovaks and Germans (more precisely, the local group known as Mantaks) in Medzev functions as a differentiating cultural code, on the basis of which symbolic boundaries are formed between groups.
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The paper sets out to compare accounts from the oral prose repertoire in Slovakia, which were recorded in the Slovak and Romani languages and where Roma are featured. For the purposes of the study the author choses texts from various sources (= recorded oral narratives); the criterion for choosing was whether there was mentioned in the texts of characters designated as (male/female) Gypsy or Roma. First of all, she traced how the characters of Gypsy man/woman or Roma man/woman are depicted and characterised. Further to this, she explored in more detail the question of which genres of oral prose the narratives featuring Roma characters belong to. In conclusion, the author assessed to what extent we can trace a definite idea of Roma in the narrations, hence what narrative hetero-image (idea of the Roma in Slovak narrations) and self-image (idea of Roma in narrations by Roma) is featured.
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The article deals with the history of ethnology in Slovakia from late 1950s to the 1960s. The author investigates the development in the scientific discipline under the influence of fundamental political, social and ideological changes after the communist seizure of power in 1948 in Czechoslovakia. She focuses her research on collective fieldworks devoted to the so called “partisan (guerrilla) folklore”. The empirical data which describe this fieldwork activity show the research strategies of institutions and scholars during the period of penetration of the communist ideology into the discipline and the orientation of Slovak ethnology on the Soviet ethnographic schools.
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