Third International Symposium on Networks for Applied Anthropology in the International Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Why the world needs anthropologists attracted around 450 guests from 25 countries. One of the main issues of today's world, burning problems were presented and discussed by the world-known interdisciplinary experts L. Kajfež Bogataj, G. Bell, Th. H. Eriksen J. Breidenbach, and L. Bohren.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 39594029The miscellany offers a selection of extended and updated contributions, which were presented at the international conference "Ethnological collections, folklore and cultural tourism between the Alps and the Karst" held in Udine on 29 May 2014. The conference was organized by the University of Udine and Institute of Slovenian Ethnology at the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Science and Arts within the international project ZBORZBIRK – Cultural Heritage in the Collections between the Alps and the Karst (European Territorial Cooperation, Cross-border Cooperation Programme Italy – Slovenia 2007–2013). The project aimed to identify, register, evaluate, contextualise and promote local cultural heritage collections in the border area – from the Canale Valley and the Upper Sava Valley in the north to the region of Brda in the south and from the Torre Valley in the west to the Soča Valley in the east. Alongside the lead partner (Institute of Slovenian Ethnology at the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts) it included two educational-research institutions (University of Udine and Institute for Slovenian Culture in San Pietro al Natisone), two museums (the Goriška Museum in Kromberk – Nova Gorica and the Upper Sava Valley Museum in Jesenice) and six local communities (the Italian municipalities of Lusevera, Pulfero, and Taipana, and the Slovenian municipalities of Brda, Kanal ob Soči, and Kobarid).
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COBISS.SI-ID: 7709932Maribor is a city of contrasts, which in the past centuries experienced periods of prosperity, as well as a number of turmoils and setbacks: from the medieval centre of Jewish culture in the Slovenian territory to the centre of Germanization in southern Styria, from the centre of rich trade in agricultural products to the most important industrial centre in former Yugoslavia. The city, which today – in a period of harsh economic conditions, is falling into ruin and is on the brink of social collapse. The scientific monograph ('Maribor and the people of Maribor') represents the views of thirteen scientists from different research fields of the humanities (ethnology, biography, history, musicology, anthropology, art and literary history) on the fate of the people of Maribor, economic and cultural development, and the capabilities of this unique urban centre in Slovenia.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 282221568The publication is designed for tourists in the Canale, Resia, Cornappo, Iudrio, Torre and Natisone Valleys, the city of Rateče in the Upper Valley of the river Sava, the Plain of Fusine, the area of Kobarid, Lig, Kambreško, Brda and Kanal. The guide presents cultural and historical characteristics of the Italian-Slovenian territory that extends from the Alps to the Karst and reflects how this heritage is interpreted by the local inhabitants, associations, municipalities and museums. It includes 33 collections of objects, postcards, holy cards, crafts (carpentry, blacksmith's shop, knife grinders), thematic objects (clothing, carnival masks, irons, rakes) which testify to the life of the region, and of objects that refer to World War I. The Guide has been realized within the ZBORZBIRK project, co-financed by the CBC Italy-Slovenia Programme 2007–2013.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 278458624The field of visual anthropology and ethnography has long since passed its formation phase, and many protagonists, who co-created its history, are today reflecting on their own work, evaluating and systematizing it, but also searching for new research questions and topics that would complement and conclude their contributions. This monograph of 16 papers from Slovene and international visual anthropologists and ethnologists firmly places itself in a self-reflective perspective. Some of the researchers are attempting to find a distant, broader view of their work; others are discussing more narrow topics and research questions in which they were more deeply engaged, e.g. educational models and approaches, fieldwork experiences and methods, definitions of ethnographic film and use of the visual in museology, in research and in the representation of cultural tradition. This book is also a tribute to Naško Križnar, the spiritus movens of Slovene visual ethnography, who has been working and creating in this field for several decades, taking responsibility for its development and affirmation at home and abroad. Several papers discuss different aspects of his work; he first is positioned in the broader context of visual anthropology in Slovenia, and then attention is drawn to some distinct examples of his activities, such as his employment at the Goriško Museum, his fieldwork in Carinthia/Koroška (Austria), and to his cooperation with professional colleagues from the region. These papers are supplemented by the bibliography, selected filmography and interview, in which Naško Križnar articulates his thoughts and observations about his past experiences and his work – about his highways and byways as an ethnologist with a camera.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 278228224