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Silences and Divided Memories
The Istrian Peninsula, which is made up of modern-day Croatia, Slovenia, and Italy suffered from the so-called "Istrian exodus" after the Second World War. This book looks at this difficult, silenced past and shifts the usual focus from migrants to those who stayed behind and to the new immigrants who came to the “emptied” towns.The research, based on individual memories, deals with silences and competing national discourses, reasons to stay and leave, hybrid border ethnic identities, and the renewal of Istrian society and its new social relations. It is a self-critical reflection on an ignored chapter of national history, which, with an empathetic approach, allows the silence to speak.
The Anthropological Field on the Margins of Europe, 1945-1991
The social lives of the peoples of the Balkans have long stimulated the imaginations of their northern European neighbors. These peoples and places have anthropological traditions of their own, shaped initially by nationalist movements and, later, by socialism and other political constraints. From an anthropological perspective, this book explores the region between Greece and Slovenia, when political pressures were strongest in the era of the Cold War. Yet, the environments were by no means uniformly repressive. The study provides indispensable insights for new generations pursuing innovative research agendas in this region in the new century. It raises deeper issues about the boundaries and substance of the anthropological endeavor. (Series: Halle Studies in the Anthropology of Eurasia - Vol. 29)
European Integration as Cultural Practice
This book provides an anthropological analysis of the cultural formation, practices and experiences of the first generation of Slovenes working in the institutions of the European Union. On 1 May 2004, Slovenia became a full-fledged member of the European Union and was thus formally incorporated into the processes of European integration redefining the relations among EU member states. European integration processes take place at multiple, interlocking levels — from the level of government bodies to the level of individual social actors. The numerous Slovenes who were successful in attaining the positions available for citizens from new member states now work as Eurocrats at multiple locat...
Charms and Charming
In the book are presented studies of 18 renowned researchers focussing on the verbal aspects of everyday magic, placing in the centre the richest and most poetic manifestation of verbal magic – the charm or incantatio. Incantations are in Europe well spread folklore genre, which contain very old magical elemrnts. The book covers wide spectrum of regions, from United Kingdom to Russia and Iran, and includes also Slovenia. The researchers have devoted their attention to phenomenological and theoretical studies of incantatio, and have discussed various topics, from the origin of charms and ancient European magical practices, to the receptions and diffusions of different types of charms. _ _ _...
Schola
In this book, we present the results of a two-year project that was carried out by partners in five European countries with the financial support of the EU Erasmus+ programme. The project addressed young people and mentors and helped them understand the importance of non-formal and informal education, supported by volunteering, in preventing early school leaving. In this way, the project team put special attention on recognising the key competences that young people acquire through their voluntary work. The initial goal of the project was to test ideas and concepts at the local levels – to see which approaches are the most appropriate in a certain country, socio-cultural framework and even...
Supernatural beings from Slovenian myth and folktales
Focusing on Slovenian mythology the book contains a review of Slovenian mythological, historical, and narrative material. Over 150 supernatural beings are presented, both lexically and according to the role that they have in Slovenian folklore. They are classified by type, characteristic, features, and by the message conveyed in their motifs and contents. The material has been analysed in the context of European and some non-European mythological concepts, and the author deals with theory and interpretations as well as the conclusions of domestic and foreign researchers. The book forms new starting points and a classification of supernatural beings within a frame of a number of sources, some of which have been published for the first time in this book.
Vernacular Religion
"This book reveals contemporary vernacular religion expressed in gay Catholic spirituality, Father Divine's International Peace Mission movement, and material culture"--
Research on the Road
How do people drive on roads and behave in traffic? How can we change driving habits and encourage more environmentally responsible modes of transportation? These are the two main questions to which the volume tries to answer. It tackles the problems of driving, traffic, transportation, and mobility fully, rather than from a single perspective, which has tended to be the norm so far. The authors describe how we can weave together qualitative and quantitative approaches, how useful interviews are for understanding driving comfort, the power ethnography has to help us understand the lifestyle of drivers, which technological tools and approaches are the most useful for analyzing styles of drivi...
Procesi ustvarjanja kulturne dediščine
Monografija, podprta s teoretskim premislekom in temeljitim terenskim delom razkriva vlogo kulturne dediščine med tradicijo in inovacijo na Krasu. Glavni namen dela ni le predstavitev pomena dediščine v sodobnem, globalnem svetu, temveč tudi njenih glavnih nosilcev, ustvarjalcev in uporabnikov dediščine, Kraševcev; delo razgrinja dobre in napačne prakse reprezentacije vaške preteklosti, uporabe dediščine za razvoj turističnih dejavnosti in predstavitev svojih bivalnih okolij, pomen dediščine za označevanje kraške identitete itd. Načenja pa tudi vprašanja o vlogi stroke pri ustvarjanju kraške dediščine, o dobrih in nekoliko zgrešenih pristopih strokovne javnosti pri upo...
Vizualna antropologija / Visual Anthropology
Področje vizualne antropologije in etnografije je že pred časom prešlo fazo formiranja in mnogi akterji, ki so spremljali in soustvarjali zgodovino, se danes ozirajo na svoje delo, ga ponovno presojajo, sistematizirajo, pa tudi iščejo nova vprašanja ali teme za raziskave, ki bi zaokrožile in dopolnile njihov opus. V ta prostor sodi tudi knjiga, v kateri so objavljeni prispevki šestnajstih domačih in tujih antropologov oz. etnologov. Nekateri iščejo širši, oddaljeni pogled na svoje dolgoletno delo, dejavnosti in sodelovanja, drugi obravnavajo ožje teme ali vprašanja, na primer o izobraževalnih modelih in pristopih, o terenskih izkušnjah in metodah, definiciji etnografskega f...
