The author presents individuals who through their writings played the most significant roles in the preservation of Slovenian literary heritage during a three-hundred year time period, from Baroque to moderns times, In this manner 18 personalities of Slovenian literary and cultural history are presented in a new light, meaning that certain certain established (K. Štrekelj, J. V. Valvazor, S. Vraz), neglected (P. Dajnko, A. Murko, A. Pavel, M. Ravnikar Poženčan) or even overlooked (G. Krek, G. Križnik, V. Urbas) individuals are re-evaluated. The material is consistently classified in an accessible manner so that it serves as a chronological lexicon, and the author in this case also creates a new terminology. This book pays a debt to Slovenian philology, ethnology and cultural history by supporting the author's thesis about the significance of literary folklore for Slovenian national identity wtih the aid of previously unknown findings.
COBISS.SI-ID: 264367616
This paper deals with appropriation and protection of local food and culinary tradition in contemporary Slovenian society. Food culture is an important part of national and regional heritage, and thus has not just economic, but also political and social importance. As a segment of the lifestyle and culture of Slovenians, it has not been particularly closely studied by ethnologists. During the last decades, Slovenian ethnologists focused research on several related subjects, particularly typical local dishes and food products and on protection of their geographical indications and designations of origin within the European Union. In 2008, Slovenian Parliament ratified the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (2003), a result of which is the work on the making of the Slovenian Register of Living Cultural Heritage. It is in this manner that ethnologists try to draw attention to the significance of local products and dishes that are a part of the intangible heritage. A number of interesting questions have arisen during this process, for example how to present the food culture of various social and ethnic groups that live in Slovenia; is the culinary heritage of Slovenians truly as uniform as has been indicated and presented up to the present; when do certain foods and dishes become culinary heritage; and if food and foodstuffs are a part of tangible or intangible heritage.
COBISS.SI-ID: 35146541
The drafting of the national list of intangible cultural heritage is a great challenge for the ethnological methodology for the study of cultural heritage. The author focuses on the significance of the triangle that links creators, researchers and users of cultural heritage; this can aid in the redefinition of the role of cultural heritage in science and in society.
COBISS.SI-ID: 35215149
The author deals with a chapter from the histories of Croatian and Slovenian ethnology, particularly the period of the 1950s, when both national ethnological disciplines were engaged with the issue of the relationship between general and regional/national ethnology. As far as concerns this relationship, Branimir Bratanić and Vilko Novak, both university professors at that time, followed the contemporary line of discussions in European ethnology (EE). They presented the "novelties" and advocated the integration of specific national traditions in EE, adapting them by respecting disciplinary legacies and current state of the discipline in their home countries as well as their educational agendas and broader research practices.For this reason, this study also includes a comparative presentation of some disciplinary convergences and divergences right before this particular period: the links between Croatian and Slovenian ethnology that come to light when emphasising the conceptualization of the research field, institutional history, and contacts among researchers.
COBISS.SI-ID: 35077421
The paper is based on ethnographic fieldwork of migrant workers in Istria and an analysis of selected works of literature which directly or indirectly interpret the phenomenon of Šavrinkas, Šavrins and Šavrinija, and which played a crucial role in the "Šavrinization" of the northeastern Istrian countryside. Our current understanding of Šavrinija arises from semirecent literary production which focuses on female egg sellers, or Šavrinkas, while the ethnographic data reveal shades of overlapping, interweaving and separation among the numerous pedlars and the literary depictions of Šavrinkas, and emphasise the importance of material culture in the formation of literary and regional symbols.
COBISS.SI-ID: 50450018