Recepcja symbolu gryfa na Pomorzu Zachodnim

Author(s): Hadrian L. Kryśkiewicz / Language(s): Issue: 04/2014

The paper deals with the ambiguous origination of the symbol of Griffin in the Duchy of Pomerania, i.e. the way how the motif was implemented in the Pomeranian culture, as well as when it happened and in which form. The paper includes an analysis of the oldest iconographic relics from Pomerania with an image of Griffin and it offers some explanations why that symbol appeared in the Duchy. The paper also provides some information on the origin of the symbol as far back as the ancient and medieval times.

Struktury – kapitał społeczny – interesariusze. Badania nad zbiorowościami terytorialnymi na Pomorzu Zachodnim

Author(s): Włodzimierz Durka / Language(s): Issue: 04/2014

The article is a presentation of the monographic research into the territorial communities of Western Pomerania. The research of that type has been carried out – with various intensity – from the end of the 1950s. The tradition of the monographic field research has its origins in sociology and cultural anthropology, and its characteristic feature is a comprehensive, many-sided approach to the community under scrutiny in a wide context of environmental, economic, political and historical factors. Such a manner of carrying out research is radically different from the survey type that is dominant in sociology.

Cuprins

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): Issue: 151/2010

Sumar

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): Issue: XXXI/2013

TOC Volume XXXI / 2013

SPIS TREŚCI

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): Issue: 5/2011

TOC Issue 5 (42) / 2011

The Sevdalinka in Exile, Revisited: Young Bosnian Refugees ’ Music-Making in Ljubljana in the 1990s (A Note on Applied Ethnomusicology)

Author(s): Miha Kozorog,Alenka Bartulović / Language(s): Issue: 1/2015

Scholars perceived the sevdalinka in exile as an evident expression of refugees' Bosnian identity. Although this aspect might be important, we think that the identity dimension of the sevdalinka was overemphasised. That is why we point to the appearance of the sevdalinka in Slovenia as a complex process of experiencing uncertainty and trauma of forced migration on the one hand, and youth creativity or a search for expressive freedom on the other. Hence, we aim to move the focus from the refugees' music life as collective experience to personal, highly individualised narratives. In addition, we argue that musical activities were organised in many aspects. An ethnomusicologist participated in these activities, therefore the work of applied ethnomusicology, together with its practice of strategic essentialisation of music, should be discussed as an integral part of the refugees' music-making process.

Slovenes, the Balkans, and the Yugoslav Idea, or A Short Story about a Lengthy Cow

Author(s): Božidar Jezernik / Language(s): Issue: 1/2015

In one of her articles, Dunja Rihtman-Auguštin (2000: 211-36) discusses the choice of words in contemporary Croatian political parlance by which politicians at the end of the twentieth century mobilised their constituency by expressing their attitudes towards what was good and acceptable for Us, and what was bad and thus unacceptable for Our ways. In her enlightening article, full of witty insights, she argues that the notion "Balkan" belongs equally to history and to imagination. Although the Balkans are always east of Us, she suggests, the Balkan mentality is here, with Us, not somewhere else. Rihtman-Augu š tin's article inspired me to analyse the history and image of the term Balkan in Slovene in the second half of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, that is to say, in the period when Slovene national consciousness developed.

Tobacco Industry Changing Lives: Women Workers at the Turn of the 20st Century

Author(s): Tamara Nikolić-Đerić / Language(s): Issue: 1/2015

Tvornica Duhana Rovinj (TDR) - the Tobacco Factory in Rovinj is one of the first industrial plants in modern Croatia. More than a century-old tradition of cigarette production has enabled the TDR to impose itself on the world market and to continue its successful business. TDR has also established a particular cultural and social identity transmitted by its workers, the Tabacheine (women workers) in particular. In 1872 the decision had to be made whether the factory should be built in Koper (modern Slovenia) or Rovinj. An abundant female labour force was the crucial reason why the factory was built in Rovinj. Ever since then, women's everyday life has been turned upside down. High wages and respectability achieved by working in the Factory have, for all intents and purposes, created a new social group. Men were not the exclusive providers for the family and they also lost their exclusive right to choose their spouses. Based on historical documents and interviews with interviewees from Rovinj and its surroundings, the paper retraces the development and changes in this small community; ethnic, social and gender differences generated by the development of a specific industry which is situated into a larger social and historical context enabling comparison with other societies involved in cigarette production. Thus the aim of the paper is to detect possible cultural and social patterns or unique examples of women's emancipation. Furthermore the paper traces the significance of different aspects of remembrance, pointing to possibly idealized visions of the past.

The Sevdalinka as Bosnian Intangible Cultural Heritage: Themes, Motifs, and Poetical Features

Author(s): Nirha Efendić / Language(s): Issue: 1/2015

This paper discusses interpretations, categorisations and inventories of the sevdalinka, an oral lyric tradition from Bosnia and one of the country's most important examples of intangible cultural heritage. The sevdalinka represents traditional oral lyric poetry, a celebrated form of love song, which came into existence in urban places in a broader region of the Balkans as a fusion of the existing lyrical forms and Islamic influences. The term sevdalinka for this kind of songs became widely accepted only at the end of the 19th century. Before that, this oral lyrical tradition was usually called sevdalija. Both terms, sevdalinka and sevdalija, have their roots in the Arabic word sawdā adopted as sevdah (meaning love, desire, longing) via Turkish into the languages of some Balkan peoples. In today's context, the sevdalinka is most often understood as a Bosnian (or more precisely, Bosniak) indigenous traditional love song. As an important part of the Bosnian intangible cultural heritage, ethnologists, ethnomusicologists, folklorists and other scholars have often used the sevdalinka as a source and medium through which to explore various social, historical and cultural traditions in Bosnia. This paper will first provide a historical summary of the records, inventories and research interests in this oral lyrical genre and then offer an overview of the categorisations of the sevdalinka in specialized encyclopaedias and literary theory. Finally, by analysing themes and motifs found in sevdalinkas, the paper will discuss a number of scholarly examples from manuscripts published in late 19th and early 20thcentury in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Zoofolkloristics: First Insights towards the New Discipline

Author(s): Marjetka Golež Kaučić / Language(s): Issue: 1/2015

The author notes that new, more complex researches of connections between animals, nature and connections to humans are needed in Slovenian and European folklore, literature and cultural studies, due to new ecological and ethical findings in the wider social and cultural environment and a changing order of the world, which has moved the focus from anthropocentrism into ecocentrism. The discussion builds upon various theoretical discourses, new concepts and multidisciplinary knowledge, to create the foundations, guidelines and directions for a new academic discipline of zoofolkloristics. Furthermore, new theoretical and analytical discourses should enable zoofolkloristics to provide an insight into changes in human attitudes to animals, in both folklore and within traditional and contemporary ritual practices, or their redefinition, and at the same time exert influence upon legal safety of non-human subjectivities.

“The Right Step towards a Woman’s Satisfaction?”: Washing Machine as a New Piece of Technology and the Construction of the Role of Women

Author(s): Polona Sitar / Language(s): Issue: 1/2015

This article discusses political implications of the fact that technological development and consumption in socialism are nowdays shown as a failed project of the socialist production. This generates a view that the Yugoslav socialism was never a part modernitiy.

Gender Relations in Instrumental Folk Music in Slovenia

Author(s): Mojca Kovačič / Language(s): Issue: 1/2015

Gender studies are an important part of ethnomusicological research, but in Slovenia, not many studies or discussions have been dedicated to this topic. The position of a woman in the second half of the 20th century in Slovenia is, on the one hand, strongly connected to the socialist social system and its policy of equality, but, on the other, the article also reveals control mechanisms that maintained hierarchical positions between genders. Several cases of women public instrumental practices are described, with a focus on a narrative of a woman bell chimer through which the complexity of gender relationships in bell chiming is discovered and explained.

Chicano/a Multiplicity and In-betweenness in John Rechy’s City of Night

Author(s): Eric Bergman / Language(s): Issue: 1/2015

John Rechy's novel City of Night, published in 1963, predated the Chicano Movement and the scholarly concentration on Mexican American issues that came in the movement's wake. However, many of the subjects that have preoccupied scholars since the beginning of the interdisciplinary field of Chicano Studies, such as the multiplicity of identities in the Chicano/a community, were anticipated in Rechy's novel. Through an analysis of narrative techniques, such as the first person point of view and observational tone, the episodic structure and picaresque genre, this article outlines how multiplicity and in-betweenness, especially in terms of ethnicity and sexuality, are constructed in the novel and can be considered as an example of the conceptual space of nepantla.

Music Entrepreneurship and Family Businesses: The Case of Avsenik Brothers Ensemble

Author(s): Mojca Ramšak / Language(s): Issue: 1/2015

The Avsenik Brothers Ensemble is by far the most successful Slovene music group performing popular-national music, having sold 36 million albums worldwide and having been featured in more than 10,000 live shows. Year 2013 marked the 60th anniversary of successful music-making for the brothers Slavko Avsenik and Vilko Ovsenik. Today the family music tradition is actively pursued by Slavko's son Gregor, and grandson Sašo, who continue the artistry of the Avseniks and oversee the family business built around it. The article provides a historical qualitative description of the Avseniks' career, their business model, the milestones of their success, music expansion and building of the identity of popular-national music in Slovenia.

Content

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): Issue: 9-10/2009

Turinys

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): Issue: 5/2012

Content/Turinys

SUMAR - SOMMAIRE - CONTENTS - INHALT

Author(s): Pascale Auraix-Jonchière,Rodica Lascu-Pop / Language(s): Issue: 4/2008

contents of studia 4/2008

DEZVOLTAREA ECONOMICĂ DIN ROMÂNIA CA MEMBRĂ A UNIUNII EUROPENE. CE ESTE UNIUNEA EUROPEANĂ?

Author(s): Lucian Dumitrescu / Language(s): Issue: suppl./2015

My presentation sets out to explore Romania’s economic development as an EU member. But in order to understand that, one needs to capture the underdevelopment trends of the local economy before Romania joined the EU. For no country with deep-seated institutional problems has instantly reversed its economic trend just by joining a political organization. Therefore my presentation will bring to the forefront the impact that a low-capacity state usually has had on economic development. Second of all, considering that the EU might be a Sektoraalstaat, one also needs to understand the power relations specific to a supranational entity in order to have a better grasp on the economic development of a low-capacity state under such circumstances. As a public authority, the European Union is less than a state, but more than an international organization. “Entity”, “geopolitical actor”, “multi-level governance” are examples of inaccurate terms that have been used to capture the meaning of a political organization with a diffuse physiognomy. Therefore, another aim of my presentation will be to unpack the meaning of the European Union, starting from the premise that the Weberian definition of the state lacks the flexibility to encompass the actual sense of the EU. By employing an approach specific to economic sociology, I pay particular attention to the social and economic effects engendered by the export of European institutional model to Eastern Europe with an emphasis on Romania.

EDUCAȚIA ÎN ROMÂNIA - ÎNTRE ACCELERAREA CREȘTERII ECONOMICE ȘI ADÂNCIREA DECALAJULUI FAȚĂ DE OCCIDENT

Author(s): Radu Cupcea / Language(s): Issue: suppl./2015

There is an unwritten law about the progress of society which sounds like this: that who invests in education, over the course of a generation – 30 years – will gather wellbeing and progress. This experiment was launched and implemented in Romania, in 1878, by the mathematician Spiru Haret. The results of such a reform which began in the beginning of 1900, led to the third wave of modernization of the country in 1930. The newly launched reform at that moment represented a beginning for the development of Romanian society. Starting from these considerations and viewing the encouraging horizons coming from historical arguments, we propose an analysis of the influence of the education system present for this period in the history of the Romanian state, how the system worked, how was this important necessity identified and how it was regulated in order to benefit economic development.

Cuprins

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): Issue: suppl./2015