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In the course of recent months, some regions of our country have been struck by a flood which has hit the area of the Institute for Folk Culture in Strážnice as well. Because of this and of economical difficulties before this flood, the only solution was to link the planned copies 3 + 4 together into one dubble-copy. By this, its contents composition has been touched as well.
Due to the fact that the first copy of this volume was devoted to the region of Silesia around the town of Těšín and the second copy presented the UNESCO - working meeting concerning the inappropriate forms of folklore commercialization, the contributions of this dubble-copy had to be squeezed together. Josef Vařeka devoted his contribution to ethnocartography. Daniela Stavělová pays attention to the tradition and present of the dance "roundelay" of the Chodsko-district. Jana Pospíšilová and Zdeněk Uherek publish the results of terrain investigation of Czechs in postwar Sarajevo and Ivan Dorovský show destinies of chiIdrenemigrants from Greek Macedonia. The other two essays are devoted to problematic of the feasts. Jitka Matuszková deals with this theme in the border region of Moravia, Slovakia and Austria, Jarmila Pechová in the surroundings of the big-city housing estate. Jan Kux describes the present legal protection of authors, performers and collectors of folk music.
The essays have been amended by survey among personalities celebrating their anniversaries, by reports of festivals of folklore, exhibitions, by reviews of books, dofferent information etc.
In this copy of the Národopisná revue periodical, there are published the selected papers of the meeting of experts from the Central and Eastern Europe, regarding the preparation of methodological Handbook for safeguarding the traditional folk culture against the unsuitable commercialization. The working meeting took place between 13. and 16. 10. 1996 in Strážnice and the experts from Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Ukraine and Czech Republic took part in it. Mr. Michal Beneš (Czech Republic) highlighted the violation of author’s rights in connection with development of tourism. Mr. Josef Jančář (Czech Republic) formulated the questions for the Handbook being prepared. Mr. Mila Santová (Bulgaria) highlighted the vulgarization of traditional cultural elements and their abuse in Bulgaria. Mr. Jerzy Chmiel (Poland) gave a report on some CIOFF conclusions regarding the commercialization of folklore and on positive and negative contributions of international folklore festivals in that range. Mr. Richard Jeřábek and Jaroslav Štika (Czech Republic) pointed about the problem of "natural" commercialization of the folk handicrafts, the abuse of models and some pandering forms of utilization of the traditional folk culture in open-air ethnographic museums. Mrs. Anna Bujnová (Slovakia) spoke about the concrete forms of safeguarding the folk handicrafts in Slovakia. Mr. Josef Kuks (Czech Republic) gave the expert clarification of international contracts relating to the authors and relative rights.
These papers have been completed by the anniversary contributions, reports from folklore festivals, seminars, by assesments of exhibition, reviews of books and other information.
The significant part of this issue of the Ethnographic Revue is dedicated to contribution concerning the region of Silesia around the town Těšín (authors Richard Jeřábek, Miroslav Válka a Jiřina Veselská). These contributions present anthology of papers given at the work seminar under the name - Profile of the Ethnographical Region: Silesia around the Town of Těšín, organized by the Institute of Europian Ethnology of the Faculty of Arts of the Masaryk's University in Brno and hold between 30. - 31. May 1996. The study trip around the Tešínsko region, connected with visits of museum expositions in the towns Český Těšín, Třinec and Krakow has been a part of this seminar.
The previous seminars connected with educational trips were devoted to the following regions: Haná (1992), Valašsko (1993), Horácko (1994) and Hanácké Slovácko (1995) and some contributions were issued in the former volumes of the Ethnographical Revue.
In the section called "Reports", there are remembered the anniversary of A. Jančík - the first violist of the dulcimer band from Brno, Alena Přetáková and Alena Schauerová, the workers of the folklore range, Vladimír Meloun and Prof. Otakar Pokorný. Further, you can find the information from folklore festivals, seminars, evaluations of exhibitions, review of books. At the end there is given the list of books and magazines of the international interchange of the Institute's publications in 1996.
