Voda ako téma etnológie a sociokultúrnej antropológie
Water as a topic of ethnology and socio-cultural anthropology

Summary/Abstract: Water, as an essential element for life and for production, permeates all areas of human existence. Yet (or perhaps precisely because of this) it has never been an independent and central topic of more extensive ethnological analysis, and the same was true until recently for research in socio-cultural anthropology. It was, however, always present in the background, implicitly, as a context for other dominantly studied practices and cultural phenomena. The study deals with the topic of water in the research of Slovak ethnology and foreign socio-cultural anthropology. It looks at the themes, problem areas as well as the concepts and contemporary issues addressed in scientific research in relation to water.

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