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The author analyzes the ways in which Witold Gombrowicz played with traditional culture in his play 'Wedding'. Gombrowicz polemizes with traditional culture, by using aspects of the grotesque, reversal of traditional meanings and depreciation of symbols, as well as with its symbolic spheres, such as home, king and marriage. Gombrowicz creates a world that is deprived of a center, the eternal 'axis mundi'. The king does not symbolize the embodiment of a cosmic tree, nor is he holy, nor powerful. His office is only a social and historical cultural convention. Home is not the foundation of a community. The fate that Gombrowicz prepared for his protagonist shows how man is helpless in the face of the reality that surrounds him, including the human one, and in the face of the void of a universe deprived of traditional (ethical and ontological) points of reference. For Gombrowicz, a literary drama - or more generally, art - is a place to search for cultural dimensions outside the traditional norms. This search is permeated with a sense of the tragedy of human existence, just as in all of this author's works.
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Question of regions is the question of central part and periphery. Development of regions depend on the development of centrum with which they create unity. Region is characterized as a territory with the features typical for it. Regional awareness has emotional and feeling character. This part has centrifugal tendency and integrates local and regional societies. Relation with traditional culture is the outcome and possibility in the development of regions in tourism. Awareness of regional membership is necessary to reach by education in family, school and state policy -in the area of traditional culture and national culture.
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There are projects in the history of scientific disciplines and institutions which mean a certain qualitative stage in the development both of discipline and institution hosting the project. The collective works created in the Ethnographic Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (since 1.1.1994 the Institute of Ethnology SAS) – Ethnographic Atlas of Slovakia, Encyclopaedia of Slovak Folk Culture, Slovakia: European Contexts of Folk Culture – certainly belong to this category. The value of scientific researcher as well as scientific discipline is manifested by finding and realization of the solutions within the particular scientific field.
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The study analyses the research of life style and traditional culture of the Slovak minorities living in Central and Southern Europe conducted by the research fellows of the Institute of Ethnology SAS. It describes original interest to this topic in 1950s, its culmination during the period of 1971-1975 and following stage in 1991-2005. The main part of the study is concerned with the last phase of research resulting in publishing five atlases of traditional culture in Hungary, Romania, Poland, Yugoslavia and Croatia as well as two monographs on folk culture in Croatia and Ukraine. The conclusion deals with an ambition of the authors to create wide-ranging Atlas of folk culture of Slovak minorities in Central and Southern Europe and to compare it with the Ethnographical Atlas of Slovakia.
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Drawing a distinction between circular and linear time is only one of many possible divisions. It can coexist and overlap with sacrum and profanum, ecological and structural as well as with objective and subjective time. Moreover, the very same event, such as for example the rite of initiation, by most community members considered as a manifest of circular time, by individuals can be seen as linear in their personal perception. Closing the passing of time in a circular, cyclic or spiral figure contradicts the scientific principle of anizotropia. Therefore, to fully understand the essence of circular time, meant as a kind of 'return of time', it is necessary to abandon the terms of modern physics and try to analyse the myth, the genealogy, history, the astrological and meteorological cycles, observed in a preindustrial society. Different forms of perceptions of this subject can be found in ancient India, ancient Greece, and another in traditional sub-Saharan Africa. Time treated as a cicrcle is relatively static, non-cumulative, it is also focused on ancestors, emphasises the importance of archetypic myth, and it can be seen as unfavourable to the development of a modern industrial society.
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Popular songs in Upper Silesia followed so-called Disco Polo music and they are referred to as traditional songs, “Silesian folk” or “Silesian szlagry” (Silesian hits). This very unique repertoire is the subject of the author ś scientific focus. She carries out a preliminary evaluation of the repertoire of popular banda that make references to the Silesian folklore and folk culture. The “Silesian szlagry” are based on the melodic of German popular songs and the melodic lines of Polish songs are used less often. All lyrics are written in the Silesian dialect. Their evaluation from the literary perspective shows that they are quite often written ad hoc: sometimes sentences and plots miss finishing touches; repetitions, rhymes and refrains are inconsistent; it is difficult to find the uniform metrical patterns; and the song writers make use of unjustified mental shortcuts and clichéd descriptions.
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The development of different scientific fields has brought about the formation of specialized vocabularies or terminologies whose aim is to standardise the designations of things, activities and processes in the individual branches. Today, many researchers study literature in foreign languages or publish their work abroad; almost every academic journal contains summaries in English. Ethnology is a very specific field, as it covers all areas of human life and its terminology is highly culture dependent. When translating ethnological texts into English, we encounter many problems. The expressions for elements of traditional material, spiritual and social culture in different countries vary in the same way as their cultural and social background does. No specialized Czech-English dictionary of ethnology has been published so far. The National Institute of Folk Culture is planning to publish such handbook in the form of an online database which will include a wide range of linguistic, semantic and encyclopaedic data. An examination of the identified needs and available resources followed with a presentation of the working methods as well as the methodology formulation including the dictionary structure, selection of headwords and analysis of problematic issues in translation, are summarised in this study and should lay the groundwork of the dictionary project.
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The application of elements of traditional folk culture and „regional education“ is a hot topic already the third decade in the Slovak school system. Although the initial beginnings of this phenomenon occurred more than a hundred years ago (this period is named „hnutie svojrázu“), we can reflect intensive concrete steps and results of this process on a larger scale only after 1989. This has been done mainly in the context of the changed social-political situation, the effort to upgrade and to change the content or form of education, to change the school system. The situation allows the introduction of an alternative educational program in our school system after 1989. This paper focuses on clarifying the history and genesis of this area in our country, also outlines certain ethnological aspects and possibilities for further research on this topic. These are, first, the contribution to the history of ethnology, but also the aim of this paper is to find and show some other research perspectives, such a the impact of this specific form of education for the functioning of a such type of schools in the wider socio-cultural contexts of localities, the impact of this school to socio-cultural capital of students, the way of life of the individual sites.
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The study presents complexly processed documentary material obtained by the research done for the purposes of the 'Ethnographic Atlas of Slovakia' (EAS) as well as by the research of the traditional culture of the Slovaks living in Poland, Ukraine, Romania, Croatia, Serbia and Bulgaria. Both types of the research were based on a questionnaire compiled for the needs of the EAS. The employed questions concerned the use of the V-address how directed from the wife to her husband, from the younger sibling to the older one, from the children to their parents, and also how the V-address was used by the godparents, parents-, brothers- and sisters-in-law. Up to now, both of them has been treated only partially and then published in the EAS and in a number of monographs on folk culture of Slovaks in Croatia and Ukraine, as well as in atlases on folk culture of Slovaks in Yugoslavia and Croatia. The topic of the T-V address used among relatives has also been dealt with in the Atlas of Traditional Culture of Slovak Minorities in Central and Southern Europe.
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