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The paper consists of two parts. In the first one the author focuses on obtaining methodological tools, which make it possible to oppose the rationalist modernist construct of history as „inevitable evolution“, where an individual human and his or her living uniqueness, the concept aimed at revealing and emphasizing living uniqueness of existence dissolve. What becomes the tool for the author is the „principle of authenticity“ formulated by Alessandro Ferrara and the effort to develop the „project of modernism“, which is presented by Miroslav Petříček. By employing the methodological apparatus, the other part of the paper is aimed at identifying poetics of presence (as modality of event poetics), which was used to „show“ activities of subcultures in the space of Czechoslovak culture after year 1948.
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After 2010, the study of present-day holidays established itself as an original tool for the study of society in Slovak ethnology. In the first stage, the research team of the Institute of Ethnology SAS focused on the empirical research of the specific contexts of the term holiday in Slovakia and mapped the range of situations which are designated by people as holidays today. The term holiday means the interruption of the daily routine, a moment commemorated on a cyclical basis or a period accompanied by normative or ritual acts and with an ascribed symbolic meaning. Our research showed that apart from identification, ritual and spiritual functions which are important for individuals or communities, as commonly studied by ethnology, holidays also fulfil a number of practical functions at present. After the discovery of the manifold overlaps of this phenomenon with the on-going social processes, the focus of ethnology has shifted to society as such and on its reflection in the mirror of holidays. Through an analysis of empirical materials from the observation and ethnographic description of the events in the public space during holidays, the study of the holiday legislation, the activities of various institutions, the production of printed and electronic media, business and advertising, which create the current content and the ways of celebrating holidays, it was possible to obtain a basis for a specific testimony about the present-day social processes in the Slovak Republic. In this context, this study is dedicated to the following relations: holidays and politics, holidays and economy, and holidays and citizens.
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