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Slovenský Národopis, Dec 29, 2023

Slovenský Národopis, Jun 30, 2023

This article presents the results of an ethnological study on the current forms of the Christian ... more This article presents the results of an ethnological study on the current forms of the Christian Easter holiday celebration to recall the resurrection of Jesus Christ. It is based on an analysis of data from an exploratory online questionnaire survey conducted in Slovakia in spring 2020. The date of the holiday overlapped with the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. The research therefore aimed to explore whether and how preventative measures, physical distance, and social isolation influenced the holiday practice which, according to the author's previous findings, includes not only religious rituals but also profane elements that can be empirically documented at the family, community, and commercial levels. The 2020 pandemic closed the Easter holiday behind the doors of houses and flats, and the analysis thus focuses only the practices related to the family or private space. The research mapped the holiday preparations, common customs practiced at home as well as those that could not be practiced there, custom innovations, and the emergence of new celebration practices. The data analysis is based on the concept of eventisation (Gebhardt, 2000), according to which secularised and individualised ways of spending holiday time influence the pluralisation of contents and the forms of "traditional" holidays. Thus, the survey also aimed to find out how people who do not celebrate it spent the Easter holiday. In addition to particular findings about people's adaptation to the pandemic, the article also offers a wider ethnological perspective of the transformation of holidays as part of the cultural dimension of social processes in the late modernity period.

Slovenský národopis (Slovak Ethnology), 2006

Slovenský národopis (Slovak Ethnology), 2010

Łódzkie Studia Etnograficzne

This study deals with Halloween and Valentine’s Day in Slovakia from the perspective of the event... more This study deals with Halloween and Valentine’s Day in Slovakia from the perspective of the eventisation theory elaborated on by Winfried Gebhardt (2000), which reflects on internal as well as external changes in the field of holidays in modern societies and seeks to elucidate the cultural dimension of the processes of individualisation and pluralisation during the late-modernity period. The authors explore these two holidays as global phenomena with a focus on their holiday practice, i.e. on the ways of celebrating and spending holidays. At the same time, they analyse the historical and social processes related to the transformations of Europe’s and Slovakia’s holiday culture since the end of the 20th century. On this basis, they present research materials that clarify these processes of domestication as well as the ways of celebrating Halloween and Valentine’s Day in Slovakia. The empirical data form the basis for formulating findings on the ways of spending these two “new” holida...

Slovenský národopis / Slovak Ethnology

Pre akademickú slovenskú etnológiu, disciplínu s národopisným dedičstvom takmer sto rokov trvajúc... more Pre akademickú slovenskú etnológiu, disciplínu s národopisným dedičstvom takmer sto rokov trvajúceho výlučného záujmu o rurálnu kultúru, sa za uplynulé dve desaťročia-ktoré venovala rozšíreniu záberu a antropologizácii svojej paradigmy-stal sústredený záujem o výskum de

Úvod Načo sú nám zákony o sviatkoch? Komu patrí Slovenské národné povstanie?

After 2010, the study of present-day holidays established itself as an original tool for the stud... more After 2010, the study of present-day holidays established itself as an original tool for the study of society in Slovak ethnology. In the first stage, the research team of the Institute of Ethnology SAS focused on the empirical research of the specific contexts of the term holiday in Slovakia and mapped the range of situations which are designated by people as holidays today. The term holiday means the interruption of the daily routine, a moment commemorated on a cyclical basis or a period accompanied by normative or ritual acts and with an ascribed symbolic meaning. Our research showed that apart from identification, ritual and spiritual functions which are important for individuals or communities, as commonly studied by ethnology, holidays also fulfil a number of practical functions at present. After the discovery of the manifold overlaps of this phenomenon with the ongoing social processes, the focus of ethnology has shifted to society as such and on its reflection in the mirror of holidays. Through an analysis of empirical materials from the observation and ethnographic description of the events in the public space during holidays, the study of the holiday legislation, the activities of various institutions, the production of printed and electronic media, business and advertising, which create the current content and the ways of celebrating holidays, it was possible to obtain a basis for a specific testimony about the present-day social processes in the Slovak Republic. In this context, this study is dedicated to the following relations: holidays and politics, holidays and economy, and holidays and citizens.

Autorka rekonštruuje obsahovú náplň, podobu a sociálne funkcie slávnosti v období 2. polovice 20.... more Autorka rekonštruuje obsahovú náplň, podobu a sociálne funkcie slávnosti v období 2. polovice 20. storočia po zrušení súkromného vlastníctva pôdy v podmienkach socialistického družstevného vinohradníctva. Pri analýze výskumného materiálu aplikuje etnologický prístup, podľa ktorého je vinobranie mestským sviatkom. Je zakotvený v lokálnej a regionálnej kultúre ovplyvnenej pestovaním hrozna a výrobou vína. Ako živý sociálny fenomén je súčasne otvorený nadlokálnym ekonomickým a spoločenským kontextom, ktoré počas vývoja pružne absorbuje, resp. eliminuje zo svojej štruktúry. Tento mechanizmus sa uplatnil aj v období po kolektivizácii poľnohospodárstva, keď sa na Slovensku v zmysle komunistickej ideológie budoval socializmus. Analyzovaný materiál ťažiskovo spočíva na dianí spojenom s organizovaním, obsahom a podobami vinobraní v meste Pezinok v 70. rokoch 20. storočia. Abstract POPelkOVá, katarína: The Small-Carpathian Grape Harvest Festival in the 1970s – a Socialist Holiday of Collectiv...

Slovenský Národopis, 2006

Slovenský Národopis, 2011

Český lid, 2021

This article focuses on a three-day town celebration called Vinobranie (Grape Harvest), which tak... more This article focuses on a three-day town celebration called Vinobranie (Grape Harvest), which takes place in the public space of the town of Pezinok in Western Slovakia. This eventis over eighty years old and was established the representatives of the town in collaboration with the local wine-growing association, organised with the support of the state railway company. The grape harvest festival is a mosaic of various elements with symbolic contents, representing an impressive whole wrapped in an offer of a varied programme and consumption. The study observes the changing form and structure of the festival from its origins up until the present day, as well as the dynamics of the range of its functions in the local community. The author follows an ethnological perspective. She draws on historical archive documents and ethnographic materials. In her analysis, she applies the concept of festival (Waldemar Cudny’s ‘Festivalisation of Urban Spaces’, 2016).

Slovenský Národopis, 2008

Slovenský Národopis, 2005

Osterreichische Zeitschrift Fur Volkskunde, 2007