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Področje etnološkega raziskovanja je gibljtvo
Flexible Sphere of Ethnological Research

Author(s): Slavko Kremenšek
Subject(s): Customs / Folklore, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure
Published by: Sveučilište u Zagrebu, Filozofski fakultet
Keywords: Slovenia; ethnology; development process; anthropological orientation; cultural orientation; folklore;

Summary/Abstract: We have not always defined the object of ethnological research in the same way. It is evident from the history of Slovene ethnological thought (ethnological science) that at one time an orientation which sprang up in the period of enlightenment or anthropological orientation was in the foreground, at another the culturological orientation which originated in the period of romanticism. In the recent times this differentiation between the two orientations resulted in the separation between ethnologists and folklorists. The former emphasize the research of the way of life, the latter of folk culture. We should, of course, encompass both. Yet we had to reaffirm the research of the way of life. Their professional strengths or weaknesses shall yet reveal the real scope of ambitions of ethnologists. Only the starting point is known: the way of life on the level of everyday life.

  • Issue Year: 1990
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 7-9
  • Page Count: 3
  • Language: Slovenian