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Článek se věnuje okolnostem přesunu dřevěného kostelík sv. Paraskevy a jeho stavebnímu vývoji. Tento kostelík marmarošského typu stál původně v obci Nižné Seliště na území dnešní Ukrajiny v blízkosti hranic s Rumunskem. Vystavěn byl v 1.... more
This paper will focus on the change in relations between punks and skinheads since their emergence in the former Czechoslovakia until now. The first punks appeared in the former Czechoslovakia in the late 1970s and 1980s. In the... more
Also after 1969 the Communist Regime tried to reduce the question of national minorities only to the field of culture and school education. Therefore, most goals defined by the representatives of the Polish minority in the Czech part of... more
Studie byla publikována v roce 1966 v časopise ,,Český Lid" / The study was published in 1966 in the journal ,,Czech People".
The history of the Jewish settlement of the Czech lands dates back to the 10th century. For hundreds of years, the Jews lived next to their Slavic and German neighbours, often facing periods of religious intolerance and persecution. The... more
Focusing on politics of culture in early socialist era, this article explores struggles for imposing particular visions of “folk” during the revolutionary zeal characterizing the post-1948 period's development in the discipline of... more
Studie byla publikována roku 1949 v časopise ,,Zprávy památkové péče" ( Ročník 9, číslo 1-2 ) / The study was published in 1949 in the journal ,,Zprávy památkové péče" (Volume 9, No 1-2).
The book intended for a wide audience presents some interesting facts from the current research in the Czech language and helps the reader to orientate himself in basic sources for the study of Czech as well.
The article tries to characterise the spiritual life of a group of members of the Czech Reformed exile community in Husinec near Strzelin in Silesia at the turn of the 18th and 19th century. It starts with a detailed analysis of a unique... more
Článek představuje projekt Gistralik, zajímavý internetový rozcestník, který nabízí prostřednictvím aplikace na bázi geografického informačního systému snadný přístup k bibliografickým informacím a historickým pramenům tradiční lidové... more
The work deals with the Ohlas od Nežárky weekly periodical. The periodical was being published in Jindřichův Hradec in 1871–1942. The aim of my article was to process ethnographically valuable articles published during the 72 years of... more
Olga Skalníková: founding personalities of Czech and Czechoslovak ethnography of the working class and the city.
The mobile work-lives of migrant workers circulating within the EU space, including within the manufacturing zones of the Czech Republic, problematize spatial imaginaries embedded within some iterations of social reproduction theory. The... more
Abstract: Can one nation be personified through a fiction hero? From a historical perspective, we shall see some aspects of the Czech national identity through the symbolic meaning of Jara Cimrman. Moreover, we shall observe in brief... more
Romani children are disadvantaged within the Czech child protection system and highly overrepresented within the system of Czech institutional care. Relevant legislative and policy is not unified or sufficiently defined. A legal... more
European Ethnology and Concept of Intangible Cultural Heritage The article deals with critical analysis of contemporary acceptance of the intangible cultural heritage concept in field of European ethnology. European ethnology has strong... more
"Depictions of the devil in broadside ballads" deals with demonic figures, their depiction and function in broadside ballads. The chapter further draws our attention to the absence of visual representations of the devil in broadside... more
Publikace Vesnická stavební kultura sleduje problematiku tradičního vesnického domu z hlediska stavebního materiálu, domové dispozice, slohových ohlasů a roubených sakrálních objektů. Jejím charakteristickým rysem je interdisciplinární... more
Studie byla publikována roku 1955 v časopise ,,Zprávy památkové péče" ( Ročník 15 číslo 68) / The study was published in 1955 in the journal ,,Zprávy památkové péče" (Volume 15 Numer 68).
This 2007 article maps the perception in Czech society of the ongoing violent conflict in Chechnya. It shows that while world opinion has seen Chechnya as a case of Islamic terrorism, Czech elites, reflecting to considerable extent upon... more
The article briefly describes the history and main features of Czech popular print production. So-called "kramářské tisky": cheap leaflets containing religious songs, news ballads and rhymes, were one of the most common forms of printed... more
Článek pojednává o obrazu světa obsaženém v textech českých kramářských písni. Na základě výzkumu provedeného v Muzeu Komenského v Přerově a ostatních moravských sbírkách je popsána vertikální hierarchie světa (Nebe, Země a Podsvětí),... more
Review of an interdisciplinary prepared edition of a Czech printed Baroque Christmas hymnbook Jesličky, Staré nové písničky published by Czech Baroque poet, grammatographer, missionary and Jesuit Fridrich Bridelius. The edition was... more
Studie byla publikována roku 1963 v časopise , Časopis národního muzea" (Ročník 132) / The study was published in 1963 in the journal "Journal National Museum" (Volume 132).
Reference: "Obraz Balkánu v českých internetových cestopisech", In: Lidé města (revue pro antropologii, etnologii a etologii komunikace), vol. 16, nr. 2/2005, pp. 43-61. SUMMARY: Internet travelogues are very popular with Czech... more
The review introduces the monumental work of Czech scholarship, the two-volume collective monograph In the Public Interest: Censorship and the Social Regulation of Literature in Modern Czech Culture, published by a group of scholars based... more