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THE CHIEF AS A FUNCTIONARY. DECENTRALISED DESPOTISM IN THE POST-TRIBAL SOCIETY IN CAMEROON

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Vorbrich R.
Lud
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2004
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vol. 88
219-236
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The article describes the genesis and modern manifestations of the involvement of an African state in tribal structures. The description of historical and cultural conditions and political phenomena typical of the entire continent is illustrated with examples from Cameroon. The analysis starts with the concept of post-tribal society, in which elements of culture and social structure, typical of the tribal society (traditional sources of prestige, collectivism, dominance of blood ties and ethnocentric attitudes) are mixed with institutions and principles imported from Western culture (the concept of nation, parliamentary system, social relations based on free relations and individualistic attitudes). The analysis of the legal status and political functions of tribal chiefs in the social life of Cameroon leads to the conclusion that they are de facto and de iure the modern emanation of the 'class of native intermediaries'.
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OD TEXTU K SPOLOČENSKÉMU FENOMÉNU. PREMENY VZŤAHU TÉMA - METÓDA POČAS PRÍPRAVY DIPLOMOVEJ PRÁCE

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Agócs A.
Etnologické rozpravy (Ethnological Disputes)
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2004
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vol. 11
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issue 2
95-105
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The aim of the contribution is to clarify the process of writing diploma thesis on ecology of folk tales of settled Roma population in Gemer region. In the part 'the journey to the theme' the author describes working on definition of the research topic, which has several phases: specification of the studied phenomena, identification of space and time framework of the research and the outline of target group. In the part 'the journey to the method' he characterises the problems caused by conflicts: 1. the topic broadly conceived in terms of space and society - outstanding narrator, 2. the romance of old fairy tales - ecology of texts (recent material) - that have been solved by the shift of interest from the text to narration as a social phenomenon.
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'THE REDS' AND 'THE BLUE': SOCIO-CULTURAL CHANGE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE COMBAT BETWEEN 'THE CONQUERORS' AND 'THE BESIEGED' (Cerveni a modri: sociokulturna zmena cez perspektivu dvojpoloveho zapasu 'dobyvatelov' a 'oblahnutych')

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Podoba J.
Slovenský národopis (Slovak Ethnology)
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2009
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vol. 57
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issue 3
289-300
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The paper deals with the problem of socio-cultural change connected with the social conflict. The author emphasizes the problem of social agency and its position in the attempts to understand the dynamics and the character of socio-cultural changes. One of the possible attempts in catching the never-ending combats of the mankind, conflicting tensions in inter-group and inter-personal relations is the novel by Czech writer Vladimir Paral 'Milenci a vrazi' (Lovers and Murders). The construction of the Paral's novel is based on the model of combat between 'the conquerors' and 'the besieged', 'The Reds' and 'The Blue'. Similarly the author analyzes and interprets scientific publications by Sona Svecova, first of all her monograph from the year 1984, based on her long-term ethnographic research of the dispersed settlement in the highlands of Krupinska planina. Svecova analysed ethnographic data directly related to socio-cultural changes with very similar character to Paral's expressive interpretation.
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THE WORLD OF MARRIAGE ADS - PROSPECTING AND INSPIRATION

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Orszulak-Dudkowska K.
Lud
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2004
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vol. 88
65-77
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The authoress presents the results of her research on press marriage ads. She has identified different research leads; a marriage ad is discussed as a linguistic phenomenon and, first of all, as a cultural phenomenon, in the focus of interest of different areas of humanistic studies. She makes a marriage ad part of the cultural scenario, organizing behaviours that follow the rules of matchmaking, making them a fragment of an old story about pairing a man and a woman. She points to a parallel between marriage ads and the traditional matchmaking and tries to find folklore-like features in marriage ads, existing in the world of everyday cultural life. The authoress analyses marriage ads from the point of view of popular literature, with defined aesthetics and genre features. She also discusses the communicative function of the ad. The article carries many quotations from singles ads. The authoress tries to put marriage ads into a broad perspective of the discussion about the position of man in the modern culture - his/her status, aspirations and needs.
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NOSENIE NÁKLADOV AKO FORMA ZAMESTNANIA A TRANSPORTNÉ PROSTRIEDKY V KONTEXTE ROZVOJA TURISTIKY V PROSTREDÍ VYSOKÝCH TATIER

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Nováková K.
Etnologické rozpravy (Ethnological Disputes)
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2007
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vol. 14
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issue 2
85-108
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The paper explores the forms of mountain and high-mountain transport on the Slovak side of the High Tatras since the time of the first mountain discoverers until the present day. It also examines the differences between particular historical periods in the terms of transportation and general model of organization of the high-mountain transport. The paper is based on the results of the field research, literature, as well as analysis of an ample photographic and iconographic material. It aims to answer the following questions: when did people begin to carry cargoes to the mountains; what were the principal areas and means of the high-mountain transport; what population groups have specialized in this profession and for what social reasons.
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Sbírka kramářských tisků v Muzeu Prostějovska

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Mazalova L.
Český lid: etnologický časopis (Český lid: Ethnological journal)
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2008
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vol. 95
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issue 3
293-304
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The article introduces the Czech broadside ballad as one of the genres of semi-popular production. It outlines its development, formal characteristics and specific features and, at the same time, points out its integration into the broader Central European cultural context. It mentions the interest of the Czech public at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth century in this song genre and concerns more closely with the collection of broadside ballads in the Museum of the Prostejov Region in Prostejov. It presents the extent of the collection, its physical state and the stage of scientific scrutiny. It specifies the chronological and genre aspects of the collection and mentions the minor curiosities. The aim of the article was not the content analysis of the individual prints, but rather the specification of their provenance. The enclosed provenance register lists the individual printers as well as printing families dedicated to the broadside production from the end of the eighteenth to the beginning of the twentieth century. The concluding part of the article accentuates the importance of broadside prints and the need of their preservation for future generations.
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Mutual relation between brothers wife and brother-in-law in Latvian and Russian national songs

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Infantiew B., Pucele c.
Acta Baltico-Slavica
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2005
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vol. 29
159-167
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Comparative analysis of the Latvian, Russian, Belorussian, and Polish songs about the hostile relations between a husband offending his young wife and her brother-defender present a special interest for the studies on ethno-psychology of the above-mentioned nationalities, and on the methods of folkloristic comparisons. The main difference between the Latvian and west-slavic songs consists in 'showing' a behavior of the brother–defender towards the husband offending his young wife. The Latvian brother is ready to teach the husband a good lesson with his sword but does not realize his theat, because afterwards there will be no one to feed his sister. The Russian brother does not also think about the bloody massacre. On the contrary he persuades the sister to reconcile with her husband and be pacient. By the way, who does not beat his wife from time to time? In the Polish songs the husband apologises and swears not to offend his wife any more.
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MESTO PRE TURISTOV. STRATÉGIE PRI TVORBE VLASTNÉHO IMIDŽU

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Vrzgulová M.
Etnologické rozpravy (Ethnological Disputes)
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2005
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vol. 12
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issue 2
157-165
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Tourism as a modern phenomenon is connected with numerous trends and processes attracting attention of the social scientists in Slovakia. The case study deals with the strategies of local management in tourism. The aim of the managers is to transform the city to the attractive destination for tourists. To accomplish it, however, they have to balance between globalization and local processes and constraints.
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ETHNIC SUCCESSION IN A ROMAN CATHOLIC PARISH IN AN AMERICAN TOWN

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Mucha J.
Etnografia Polska
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2004
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vol. 48
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issue 1-2
161-175
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The aim of this article is to analyze a specific case of 'ethnic succession'. This topic emerged in the social sciences in the early 1900s, within the first Chicago school (the Robert Park school). Since that time, many models of succession (drawing upon biological ecology) have been presented. In this paper, a succession in one specific field and one specific place is analyzed: an unfinished process of takeover of a Roman Catholic parish by the rapidly growing Hispanic population from the shrinking Polish American population in the West Side of South Bend in northern Indiana. This process meant also the cultural elimination of the Hungarian Americans from the 'independent' religious life in the town's quarter. In the multicultural contexts, religion is often closely related to ethnicity, and in the well-known theory authored by Milton Gordon, religion is one of three possible bases of ethnicity in American society. In the case discussed here, the two ethnic groups, Hispanics and Polish Americans, belong to the same religious denomination. Moreover, historically speaking, Roman Catholicism has been a very significant element of their ethnic identities. From the recent cultural point of view, however, these are two quite different types of Catholicism. Ethnic succession discussed in this text has important consequences for the cultural features of Catholicism in the whole town. In the article, the local Polish American community and the Hispanic community is briefly presented, and then the 'succession' problems discussed. To the extent it makes sense (and the empirical material is available), the elements of the 'process of passage' and the 'ceremony of passage', important for socio-cultural anthropology, are presented as well.
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FOLKLORISM AND CLOTHES IN THE COLLECTION OF THE SLOVAK NATIONAL MUSEUM - THE MUSEUM OF HISTORY IN BRATISLAVA

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Gaburova J.
Etnologické rozpravy (Ethnological Disputes)
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2005
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vol. 12
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issue 2
67-78
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The paper deals with folklorism manifested in clothes and textile culture since the second half of the 20th century until today. It deals with a relation between the traditional clothes, the clothes of countryside residents engaged in agriculture and stock farming and the different groups' clothes through the prism of a category of folklorism. The authoress is a specialist working in the Slovak National Museum - the Museum of History in Bratislava. She uses selected artifacts of the textile culture from the collections of the museum. She studies chronologically the re-emergence of folklorism and the historical and social background of this process. The development of the clothes is examined at two levels: 1- traditional clothes as a source of inspiration leading to the formation of the national clothes and 2-traditional clothes as a folk costume.
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Belinci: "zapomenutá" osada na Balkáně, v níž se hovořilo česky

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Svoboda M.
Český lid: etnologický časopis (Český lid: Ethnological journal)
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2008
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vol. 95
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issue 2
145-162
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The Belinci is a small village located in north-eastern Bulgaria. This essay covers the 1930s and 1940s - the period when Czech-speaking Protestants lived there - and aims at describing the Czech-speaking settlement in the village from its beginning in the middle of the 1930s. At that time this group of people moved in because of land shortage in their former place of residency (Bulgarian village called Vojvodovo) and lived there up to the late 1940s when they left to resettle the Czechoslovak border regions after the expulsion of Sudeten Germans. The author doesn't approach the Czech-speaking settlement of the Belinci village in the traditional way and thus doesn't regard them as subjects of the Czech nation (this is why he doesn't call them 'Czechs'). The descendants of the first Czech settlers have lived outside The Lands of the Czech Crown for many generations and did not in any way participate in the process of building the modern Czech nation in the 19th century. He understands their collective identity as primarily religious: they were strict Protestants with a strong sense for religious ascetism and Protestant work ethics. The essay is based mainly on the biographical method in anthropology, namely narrative interviews.
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TURIZMUS, KULTÚRNE DEDIČSTVO A TRANSFORMÁCIA SPÔSOBU ŽIVOTA V REKREAČNÝCH LOKALITÁCH VYŠNÁ A NIŽNÁ BOCA

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Botík J.
Etnologické rozpravy (Ethnological Disputes)
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2005
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vol. 12
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issue 2
11-16
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The localities of Vysná and Nizná Boca emerged in 13th century as mining settlements. Since 17th century the mining there had been declining until it disappeared in 19th century. As a source of living it had been replaced by meadow farming, cattle breeding, shepherding and logging. Since 1950s people have been leaving Vysná and Nizná Boca in a search of job in the cities, until the number of inhabitants radically decreased. Cattle breeding and shepherding diminished. Empty houses and meadow stalls were purchased by people from bigger cities who began to use them for recreational purpose. These changes led to the third transformation of economy and life style in Vysná and Nizná Boca. The function of cultural heritage and cultural memory has also changed: they became the main pillars of contemporary tourism.
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REOPTANTI ZO SEVEROVÝCHODNÉHO SLOVENSKA

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Beňušková Z.
Etnologické rozpravy (Ethnological Disputes)
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2006
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vol. 13
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issue 2
12-27
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On the base of the agreement about the option from the year 1946, more than 8556 Slovak citizens had to emigrate in 1947 to Ukraine. In Ukraine they had to adapt to the new conditions, which had not responded to their ideas of better life. Large part of them returned to Slovakia. After return they were perceived by citizens of the Slovakia and the Slovakian legislative as foreigners. From the 60s of the 20th century here exists the institutional effort to inform public about the option and for categorization of the repatriated people (reoptants) with equal rights to the other Slovakian citizens.
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ADAM PRANDA: UNKNOWN ASPECTS OF HIS PERSONALITY AND LIFE'S WORK

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Chorvathova L.
Slovenský národopis (Slovak Ethnology)
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2005
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vol. 53
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issue 3
243-261
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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 cases it resulted in career change, the concealment of politically incorrect personal information and contacts. The authoress traces the evolution of a former Slavic linguist, PhDr. Adam Pranda, CSc. (1924 -1984), explaining how he became the leading personality of Slovak ethnology during his lifetime. Some hitherto unknown biographical facts are disclosed which shed light on Pranda's career, thereby adding a deeper perspective to the history of postwar ethnology in Slovakia. She pays attention mainly to the education of Adam Pranda at the elite Catholic 'gymnasium' in Klástor pod Znievom (near Martin), to his literary talent and brings examples of his young and older literary pieces in poetry and prose, mainly unpublished. Further, she reveals the details of his study at the former Slovak (present Comenius) University in Bratislava and his education in linguistics and sociology and his beginnings as a Slavic linguist and sociolinguist. Under stalinist political pressure, Pranda was compelled to give up his promising career as a linguist and shortly after put into 'PTP' - corrective camp and forced to work as a builder. In 1954 only A. Pranda was allowed to start his research work in ÚLUV (Center for folk artisans) in Bratislava, where he took advantage of his linguist training and good knowledge of folk artisans and technologies of folk production. After seven years in ÚLUV, Pranda was allowed to work as a research worker in ethnology in former Národopisný ústav SAV (Institute of Ethnology, Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava) and profiled himself as a highly qualified and esteemed ethnologist in study of changes of the folk culture. The authoress discloses his early linguist and sociolinguist works and shows the wide palette of his fruitful mature scholarly life in ethnology.
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HOW TO CONDUCT RESEARCH ON ESTONIAN FOLK DANCE TODAY? (Kuidas uurida eesti rahvatantsu tanapaeval?)

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Kapper S.
Mäetagused
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2009
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vol. 41
75-98
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The article presents a selection of contemporary theories and methods of ethnochoreology. The selection was made based on the present reality of research into Estonian dance, which is currently at its very beginning. The need to bring into play recent theoretical and methodological approaches emerged in connection with project 'Original Choreographic Text and Style of Performance of Estonian Folk Dances on the Basis of Recorded Audiovisual Material', which aims at studying the authentic style of performing folk dance and at the identification and explanation of the changes that take place in folk dances during different periods and in revival processes. In the article, the concept of 'folk dance' is used in its broadest meaning which incorporates the ritual and social dancing of people in the past and present, and the changing meanings that have been attributed to the concept of 'folk' (Estonian: rahvas), as well as author works which elaborate and stylize the genres of folklore. Participatory and presentational dancing are discussed in connection with the concepts of the first, second and third existence of folklore. The author aims to stress the importance of specific research into the real use of the key concepts and terms in the field of folk dance and how they are understood by different groups of Estonian-speaking people. The article briefly addresses the historical research into folk dance studies, revealing some current problems in the history of European social and traditional dance and introducing the theory of dance paradigms. The author points out that next to studying local peculiarities in the Estonian dance tradition, more attention should be paid to parallels with the dance history of other nations and trends in the international dance practices.
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NEW AGE IDEAS IN THE CREATION OF THE IMAGE OF A HEALER IN RUSSIA. THE CASE OF ANASTASIA FROM ALTAI KRAI (Idee New Age w kreowaniu wizerunku uzdrowiciela w Rosji. Na przykladzie Anastazji z Altajskiego Kraju)

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Mrozowicka A.
Lud
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2009
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vol. 93
117-140
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The article presents the techniques of self promotion used by healers in contemporary Russia, notably a healer Anastasia of Barnaul in Altai Krai. The authoress analyses the cultural context of this phenomenon, and particularly the messages used by healers in creating their image. These include mainly the popular New Age ideas spread by popular culture (related to unconventional medicine, ufology, cosmism, astrology, religious syncretism) and references to the Russian Messianic tradition. The terminology used by complementary medicine has its roots in occultist and parascientific nomenclature as well as in speculations about potential 'energy information fields' connected with the space research. Besides, the article also discusses the medical and legal context of the phenomenon under study, i.e. how healers are licensed by state authorities, and the relationship between representatives of official medicine and complementary medicine. A commercial aspect of the activity of healers in Russian has also been presented.
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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)

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Slavkovsky P.
Slovenský národopis (Slovak Ethnology)
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2005
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vol. 53
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issue 2
119-133
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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 of collectivization and decollectivization of agriculture. During the second half of 20th century there were two considerable discontinuities: first, collectivization of agriculture in 50s, and second, decollectivization in 90s. Both were politically controlled processes, and therefore their effect had been essential for the way of life and life strategies of people engaging in agricultural production. The author tries to understand these processes and their social and cultural context and to delineate possible development of agriculture as well as of people engaging in it.
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POSTAVENIE MÚZEÍ V PRÍRODE V CESTOVNOM RUCHU

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Langer J.
Etnologické rozpravy (Ethnological Disputes)
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2005
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vol. 12
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issue 2
81-85
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The world travelling activities produced an extensive structure of programmes including package tours providing information, organized trackers' travels, etc. 1. The programmes of our open air museums are limited to their corresponding regions and are, therefore, similar to one another. Interregional or international programmes are not carried out (e. g. visitors could be led across the Slovak-Polish border in the Carpathians). 2. We are not able to know well all interests of the museum visitors, because the museologic psychology, applying the special methods, is absent. 3. The accumulation of tourists in the greatest European towns results from economic interests of international tourist industry. Under the pressure of this competition, our countryside open air museums can achieve success through direct contacts with foreign travelling agencies or by means of founding a special museum travelling agency.
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FIGURE OF OUR LADY AS A SYMBOL OF RESISTANCE IN POLISH NATIONAL MYTHOLOGY (Obraz Panny Marie ako symbol odporu v polskej narodnej mytologii)

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Niedzwiedz A.
Slovenský národopis (Slovak Ethnology)
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2008
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vol. 56
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issue 4
373-387
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It is very interesting to observe that the popular vision of a nation and its past has a very strong religious dimension in the Polish case. Sacred and profane visions of time, cyclical and linear, mythical and real are mixed together. Religious symbols are often tied strictly with the national discourse, so it is difficult to distinguish which symbols are more religious, and which are more national. A good example can be the image of Our Lady of Czestochowa which is often described and treated as a national emblem.The symbol of Our Lady of Czestochowa was adopted by Solidarity and also by the resistance movement of the 1980s in Poland.
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DECOLECTIVISATION AND THE STRATEGY FOR SURVIVAL OF POST-SOCIALIST AGRICULTURAL CO-OPERATIVE FARMS

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Danglova O.
Slovenský národopis (Slovak Ethnology)
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2004
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vol. 52
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issue 2
122-139
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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 the local one. She analyses differences in transformational processes of 'neo-collectivist' farms and their conversion into co-operative farms of landowners or share-holders. She also attempts to describe different levels of adaptability to the free-markets laws and new economic mechanisms enabling application of more autonomous operations and more diversified economic procedures in order to gain profit and accumulate capital. Furthermore, she identifies factors predetermining and influencing the future of co-operative farms in terms of becoming prosperous, or preserving the status quo or going bankrupt. She relies on the results of case studies carried out in six different co-operatives in south-west and west Slovakia. According to the authoress, the process of decollectivisation in Slovakia - in case it may be called decollectivisation at all -- is rather a kind of reshaping collective forms of entrepreneurial activities. This development is not easy and straightforward. The economic effectiveness of transformation and moral and symbolic effects of the new system of ownership have deeply influenced social relations not only within the co-operatives but also in the rural community as a whole.In general, the economic climate does not very much favour the agricultural sector and farmers, including those in co-operative farms. However, despite their hard situation, they more or less successfully direct the transformation processes. In the background to the post-socialist transformation processes there is, next to many regional and local varieties of natural conditions, also the historical 'heritage' of pre-socialist rural economy. This seems to be the reason why 'neo-collectivist' farms, although they exist in the same region, enter the transformation processes from different starting points and why they try to solve the transition to market economy applying a kind of hybrid procedure, combining the new - profit and capital making models with the old ones inherited from the pre-socialist and socialist collectivist systems. Thus, the differentiated strategies may lead to successful or average or negative results in dependence on professional and organisational skills as well as on adaptability and ethic qualities of managers and professionals heading the farms.
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