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RESISTANCE AND CATHARSIS: RUMOURS AND LEGENDS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR IN THE CZECH LANDS (Rezistence a katarze: famy a povesti druhe svetove valky v ceskych zemich)

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Janecek P.
Slovenský národopis (Slovak Ethnology)
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2009
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vol. 57
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issue 2
207-220
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The article analyzes rumours and contemporary legends of the Second World War on the territory of the Czech lands. Similar social functions as rumours and legends presented jokes and anecdotes; some of them even used identical motives. The most typical and the most interesting war-time rumours were dealing with urban phantoms. The most important of these urban phantoms was legendary Spring Man ('Perak'). It was the Czech paralle of the Victorian urban phantom Spring-heeled Jack from the 19th century in England. Some actualised anecdotes and character of Spring Man, which have been deeply rooted in Czech popular culture, have remained to these days.
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SÚČASNÉ POVESTI A FÁMY V URBÁNNOM PROSTREDÍ ŽILINY

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Rabatinová K.
Etnologické rozpravy (Ethnological Disputes)
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2012
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vol. 19
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issue 1-2
103 – 132
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The aim of the article is to be acquainted with issues of the contemporary legends and rumours. Concretely, the work is concentrated on the narrations collected in the urban environment of Žilina. In the first place these ones are tested to comparison with Czech contemporary legends but also with other foreign materials mainly from the USA. The work shows continuity of contemporary legends themes both at older types of motives and parallels with material acquired via internet. It tries to identify latent tidings of concrete narrations and demonstrates respondent´s attitudes to the given theme. The contemporary legends and rumours issue in Žilina was classified on the basis of typological classification of J. H. Brunvand. It was elaborated within the bounds of seven thematic spheres: car legends, frightening legends, animal legends, sex and scandal legends, crimes, business and professional legends, academic legends. The issue was elaborated on the basis of field research which enabled to show at local particularities of contemporary legends and rumours.
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CONSPIRATION THEORIES ON THE INTERNET WEBSITES

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Panczova Z.
Slovenský národopis (Slovak Ethnology)
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2005
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vol. 53
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issue 2
152-171
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The paper presents one type of potential 'new genres' or subgenres within folklore studies, called conspiracy theories. It is that kind of rumours, which deal with hidden conspiracies threatening 'our' civilization or values. They belong to the permanent indicators and agents of social conflicts and crisis. The main topics of the paper are attack on New York, Iraq war or political and religious conspiracy of Masons. The authoress is particularly concerned with actual forms, patterns and functions of this conversational genre. From the functional point of view, she emphasizes following points: ideological and psychohygienic function, effort to raise one's social prestige, entertainment or relaxation. The research monitors especially the spontaneous communication and the use of rumours as arguments or weapons in the ideological duels. Internet discussion forums on Christian pages and the setting of specialized web pages devoted to conspiracy theories were used as a field. We can find many advantages as well as disadvantages of such type of research. The authoress is however convinced that internet research efforts a very important way in terms of observation and analysis of present-day communication.
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„TO NIE JE NEJAKÁ FÁMA, TO JE KRUTÁ REALITA“. SÚČASNÉ POVESTI A FÁMY V PROSTREDÍ OZ PROTI PRÚDU

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Ditmarová L.
Slovenský národopis (Slovak Ethnology)
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2016
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vol. 64
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issue 3
327 – 344
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The text focuses on the current myths and rumours as a current genre in the present-day society. The author sees these narratives as texts which can be studied and analysed at several levels depending on the context of narration, and she assumes that the social context influences the content and the form of these narratives. The main aim of the text is to highlight the theoretical and methodological specificities of the ethnographic research of present-day myths and rumours within the OZ (Civic Organisation) Proti Prúdu and the influences of this specific context on these narratives in the context of the daily life of sellers of the Nota Bene magazine – clients of the OZ Proti Prúdu organisation. Through several examples of narratives, the context of which depends on the given environment, the author seeks to point out in what way individuals can indirectly react to daily life within their particular environment.
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SÚČASNÉ POVESTI A FÁMY AKO TEXT V KONTEXTE. TEORETICKO-METODOLOGICKÉ PRÍSTUPY K ŠTÚDIU DVOCH NARATÍVNYCH ŽÁNROV

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Ditmarová L.
Etnologické rozpravy (Ethnological Disputes)
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2014
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vol. 21
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issue 1
109 – 130
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This theoretical-methodological text is focused on contemporary legends and rumours narrated in the context of the interactive process of social communication. The aim of the study is to draw to the possible approach to research these narratives. The text presents a perspective that understands the contemporary legends and rumours as a text narrated in context, while context is seen as a crucial factor influencing the content, form and transmission of these narratives. The basis and inspiration is a framework for contemporary legends and rumours research – "The Folklore Diamond", proposed by G. A. Fine. The study seeks to demonstrate the perspective of the Fine´s model of interconnection among several elements of contemporary legends and rumours. Then it tries to outline view of the use and limitations of the framework in field research in a particular environment.
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KNOWABLE AND THE UNKNOWABLE IN ETHNOGRAPHIC ENCOUNTERS: A CASE OF SORCERY, RUMOUR, AND GOSSIP AMONG TUAREG IN NORTHERN NIGER

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Rasmussen S.
Slovenský národopis (Slovak Ethnology)
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2022
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vol. 70
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issue 3
392 –410
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This article explores issues of knowledge production, its limits, and uncertainty and suspicion in ethnographic field research through the lens of what anthropologists conventionally call “sorcery” beliefs and practices involving a love target, its treatment, and its aftermath of “shapeshifting”, occurring in the social context of gossip, rumour, and suspicion among the Tuareg, sometimes called Kel Tamajaq after their language, in Niger, West Africa. Sorcery, I show, provides a useful lens for exploring how gossip and rumour can reveal social critiques and ways in which a crisis is handled. In these processes, matters of “truth” and “ignorance” are complex, thereby allowing scope for broader discussion of ontology. The focus is on an unexpected, serendipitous field encounter with sorcery similar, though not identical to the re-directing of power of Islamic objects, words, and writing in some other African Muslim communities, with emotions awakened and then cast away in a puzzling outcome. The analysis explores how far and in what ways sorcery and responses to it, like conspiracy theories, allow the creation of multiple narratives about political tensions. This analysis is inspired by, but also hopefully builds on approaches to ontological ambiguity and uncertainty and approaches to the role of gossip and rumour in reviewing “reality” from different sense modalities and philosophical assumptions. The challenge here is to interpret events and avoid, or at least minimize imposing the observer’s own concepts of “truth” onto endogenous knowledge and its local expressions.
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