A Festive Bricolage: The Holiday Calendar in Slovenia Over the Last Century
A Festive Bricolage: The Holiday Calendar in Slovenia Over the Last Century

Summary/Abstract: Over the last century, and especially after the Second World War, the festive landscape in Slovenia changed radically due to political upheavals and restructuring of the economy and society, and in recent decades due to increasing global integration. This article shows how changes in the public calendar before and after the socialist period are manifest in holidays, reflecting changes under four political systems. These changes have affected not only the official holiday calendar, which usually marks the events that the national community identifies itself with. The post-socialist decades have featured a festive bricolage of reinstituted religious holidays, new state holidays, popular cultural celebrations, revived folk or traditional holidays, and traces of socialist holidays.

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