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The Phenomenon of Revived Shrovetide Door-to-Door Processions in Selected Locations in the South-Moravian Region

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Sítek M.

Národopisná revue (Journal of Ethnology)

2020

issue 2

151 - 161

The article presents results of the research into selected revived Shrovetide door-to-door processions in the South-Moravian Region (Velké Pavlovice, Šakvice, Bzenec, Mutěnice, Poštorná, and Ladná). The research was conducted by the Strážnice National Institute of Folk Culture in the years 2018 and 2019. The research was based on the study on archival and contemporary media sources, interviews, and a questionnaire survey; it was supplemented with the method of participant observation. The objective of the research was to describe a typical form of the door-to-door processions, the transformation in their functions, and the motivation of the organizers to organize them. The revival of the Shrovetide door-to-door processions culminate in the observed region these days, and the processions quite progressively spread to new locations. Some of the above locations have organized the door-to-door processions for more than ten years. As shown by the answers of particular organizers, the Shrovetide door-to-door processions function as self-realization, conscious safeguarding and development of local traditions (or the formation thereof with the reference to the past), and sense of belonging to a community. Although many of them only hardly continue the former local folk tradition, which lost its function and continuity due to the influence of historical events, they include many elements typical for folk culture in a particular region or location.

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1 Národopisná revue (Journal of Ethnology)

1 Sítek M.

1 2020

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The Phenomenon of Revived Shrovetide Door-to-Door Processions in Selected Locations in the South-Moravian Region