Národopis a památková péče

• Authors: Pavel Bureš

Title variants

EN

Ethnography and the care of monuments

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

With respect to the monument care object of interest, it is possible to narrow down the relationship of ethnography and the care of monuments to the field of vernacular architecture in the wider context (both exterior and interior of dwellings including the farming rooms, village as a resident unit with all functions, cultural andscape affected by a longstanding human presence and activities, etc.) as well as marginally to the sphere of folk visual arts (namely plastics and paintings). When ethnography was being formed as a scientific discipline, this interest in vernacular architecture developed also an effort to conserve the artifacts of vernacular architecture. the ethnographers - workers in the field of the monument care or museums - studied vernacular architecture and simultaneously became aware of the necessity of preservation of its artifacts, both in the open-air museums and directly in situ.

EN

The ethnographers, museologists and preservationists apply postulates as well as practical experience from their specializations, among others in the field of the specialized open-air expositions of vernacular architecture. Construction of those expositions may be based on preservation of the object in situ (rymice, třebíz), but also transfers may be applied and the open-air museums on the so-called “green field” can be constructed (Rožnov pod Radhoštěm, Strážnice). There are some institutions, where we can find the combination of both (Veselý Kopec). In addition to that, a whole range of solitary rural buildings, which were redeveloped and utilized for all sorts of exposition purposes or for some other social and cultural objectives, exist. Ethnographers working as museologists and preservationists participated in establishment, redevelopment, furnishing, as well as in the follow-up maintenance of those rural buildings. Those buildings are established by the museums (detached branches of ethnographical institutes, monuments of some local celebrities), by municipalities as well as by other governmental and private organizations.

Keywords

EN

ethnography; care of monuments; vernacular architecture; open-air museums; vernacular architecture exposition

Discipline

• ETHNOLOGY: ETHNOLOGY

• Publisher: Czech Ethnological Society
• Journal: Národopisný věstník
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 26_(68)
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 221-229
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Pavel Bureš

• Česká národopisná společnost, z. s., Národní třída 3, 117 20 Praha 1, Czech Republic