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Tourism of Czech Railfans – Remembering the Journeys to Romania in the 1980s

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Bittnerová D.
Národopisná revue (Journal of Ethnology)
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2020
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issue 2
112 - 124
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The text investigates the nature of remembering the journeys of a selected group of railfans to Romanian forest railways in the 1980s. It interconnects the concepts of anthropology of tourism and  anthropology of memory. The memories of historical railway  tourism became a permanent part of travellers’ generational statements through which they not only negotiate their group identity,  but also acknowledgement. Narrations about journeys for a visit to forest railway and their performance are situated in a mutual  dialogue between the communicative and the cultural memory. From the perspective of the content, the shared memory refers  to the frameworks which are relevant for contemporaries. The contemporaries associate their journeys to Romania with the  categories of disappeared authenticity (“disappeared paradise” of steam traction), exotics, Balkanism, shortage in the realm of  consumption, and criticism of limited motion and travelling in the socialist era. The motif of the Iron Curtain contrasts with the  globalized world imagination, which is established by technoscape. The memory frameworks are permeated by the aspects  travellers’ youth and related adventures. The adventure and the experience of authenticity can to maintain the memories of the journeys to forest railways in the communicative memory and to produce cultural memory.   
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