Journal of Ethnography 3-4/2000

No. 4, Vol. 10 (2000)

Date of publishing: 11. 12. 2000
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The current issue of the Journal of Ethnography deals with two topics: the environmental urban research, and the birth of three ethnographic regions of Moravia.

Alexandra Bitušíková offers in her study a comprehensive view on the questions of the urban anthropology (The Urban Anthropology: yes or no? Theoretical questions concerning the development of the urban anthropology). Zdeněk Uherek presents specific studies of the urban history using an example of a newly built Postdam Square in Berlin (The Symbolic Meanings in an Urban Environment: Berlin). Karel Altman deals with interhuman and intergroup relations within a big city (Exploring How the Brno Inhabitants Gather). Pavla Stöhrová is interested in the urban environment as well (The Seven Roaches House: A Preliminary Report on the Research of Urban Housing). Peter Michalovič focuses on folk music traditions in a small town (The Town Environment: the Place of the Decline and/or Revitalization of Folk Music).

Richard Jeřábek presents in his study an outline of the historical formation of three ethnographic regions of Moravia (Zálesí - Kopanice - Horňácko of the 18th and 19th Centuries; Focusing on Terminology). Dagmar Pintířová focuses in her specific ethnographic study on folk magic (The Godesses of Žitková).

The photo supplement brings the work of a Brno photographer Jan Beran (born 1913). The Tradition Transformation column deals with a rediscovery of a traditional hand technique: tinkerware. The next entry is a contribution on the cultural and historical activities of the contemporary village. The Social Chronicle remembers the birthdays of the Slovak folklorist Marta Šrámková (b. 1935), the dance folklorist Barbora Čumpelíková (b. 1930), the ethnographer Zdeněk Mišurec (b. 1925), the folk singer Luboš Holý (b. 1930), and the ethnomusicologist Olga Hrabalová (b. 1930). Other regular columns deal with conference and exhibition news, festivals, concerts, and CD and book reviews.

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