Journal of Ethnology 3/2022

No. 3, Vol. 32 (2022)

Date of publishing: 10. 10. 2022
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Studies and Materials on the Subject of “Agriculture Transformation”
Farming as a Counterculture. Family Farms in Central Bosnia (Andrej Mentel)
Post-War Life and Collectivisation of the Moravian Countryside through the Eyes of Actors – Small Farmers (Miroslav Válka)
The Impact of Mining on the Adaptation Process of the German Minority around Nitrianske Pravno with an Emphasis on Agriculture (Marián Žabenský)
Quo Vadis? Czech and Moravian Agriculture between 2000 and 2020 (Pavel Novák)
Transforming Tradition
From Traditional Farming to Large-Scale Agricultural Production in the Slovácko Region (Josef Jančář)
Village of Lazce after 1948 – Memories of the Collectivisation of Agriculture in a Village in the Haná Region (M.K.)
Retrospectives
The Centenary of the Birth of Volodymyr Hošovský or the Road to Cybernetic Ethnomusicology (Lubomír Tyllner)
One Hundred Years since the Birth of Georg Richard Schroubek (Petr Lozoviuk)
Jubilees and Obituaries
This Year’s Jubilee of Jana Pospíšilová (Helena Beránková)
Sixty-Year-Old Jaroslav Skupnik (Juraj Buzalka)
Helena Bočková Has Passed Away (Václav Štěpánek)
Conferences
ICOM General Conference, Prague 2022 (Terezie Řánková)
24th International Wind Music Conference, Bolzano (Barbora Turčanová)
Exhibitions
Button Museum in Bärnau in the Upper Palatinate (Marta Ulrychová)
Festivals
IFF Strážnice 2022: Post-Pandemic Euphoria (Matěj Kratochvíl)
Reviews
Je. P. Serapionova: Čechi i slovaki v Rossijskoj imperii (poslednjaja tret‘ XIX – načalo XX veka) (Petr Lozoviuk) 253
K. Popelková: Vinohradnícke mesto v etnologickej perspektíve [Winegrowing Town in
an Ethnological Perspective] (Peter Salner)
M. Vrzgulová (ed.) – P. Salner: Dvojrozhovor. O pamäti, etnológii a meste... [Doublespeak: On Memory, Ethnology and the City...] (Jana Nosková)
J. Šimánek: Doudlebsko v kuchyni a u stolu. Lidová strava z jihu Čech [The Doudleby Region in the Kitchen and at the Table: Folk Food from South Bohemia] (Marta Toncrová)
Z. Magyar: A magyar történeti mondák katalógusa. Típus- és motívumindex (József Liszka)
M. Krist: Letinám. Z historie obce a lázní Letiny [To Letiny: From the History of the Village and Spa of Letiny] (Marta Ulrychová)
B. Iljuk (ed.): Můj návrat do staré vlasti [My Return to My Old Homeland] (Veronika Beranská)
Sborník Muzea Českého lesa v Tachově [Proceedings of the Museum of the Bohemian Forest in Tachov] (Marta Ulrychová)


Studies and Materials on the Subject of “Agriculture Transformation

Farming as a Counterculture. Family Farms in Central Bosnia (Andrej Mentel)
Post-War Life and Collectivisation of the Moravian Countryside through the Eyes of Actors – Small Farmers (Miroslav Válka)
The Impact of Mining on the Adaptation Process of the German Minority around Nitrianske Pravno with an Emphasis on Agriculture (Marián Žabenský)
Quo Vadis? Czech and Moravian Agriculture between 2000 and 2020 (Pavel Novák)

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Farming as a Counterculture. Family Farms in Central Bosnia

Andrej Mentel

The study analyses the position of family farms in Central Bosnia as one of the strategies of adaptation to the economic and social decline associated with the transformation of heavy industry. The basic argument is that, in addition to the pragmatic motivation to provide a livelihood for their families, contemporary farmers are also engaged in a purposeful pursuit of an alternative to a society that these actors perceive as corrupt and fundamentally unreformable. Against the generalised distrust of the population towards institutions, they advocate the strengthening of personalised networks of trust. Food produced by family farms has, in addition to its immediate utility, an important symbolic value as ‘authentic’ or ‘real’. This value is linked to the values associated with environmental protection, but it differs from the discourse of ‘natural’ and ‘organic’ food. The restoration of family farms in Central Bosnia can be seen as a counterculture that aims to provide an alternative to the negatively perceived dominant trends in society by strengthening local communities. ‘Authentic food’ becomes the unifying materialised symbol of this counterculture.

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Post-War Life and Collectivisation of the Moravian Countryside through the Eyes of Actors – Small Farmers

Miroslav Válka

In the second half of the 20th century, the Czech countryside experienced two discontinuities in its development. The first one related to the collectivisation after 1948, while the other one led to the liquidation of unified agricultural cooperatives and the formation of owners’ agricultural cooperatives and agricultural enterprises of various sizes. The collectivisation of the village fundamentally changed village life, first in the economic and productive sphere, but it also interfered with the social structure of the village and the cultural sphere. It followed a well-established pattern: intensive agitation, coercion, intimidation, liquidation of large farms, but also confiscation of modern agricultural equipment (e.g. tractors). It did not only affect medium-sized peasants, and farmers, but also small farmers, the ‘progressive’ ones among whom were often at the origin of the local unified agricultural cooperative. The study uses the example of a family from the village of Závist (District of Blansko) to document the economic background of a small farmer, his everyday life and the circumstances that influenced his joining the unified agricultural cooperative.

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The Impact of Mining on the Adaptation Process of the German Minority around Nitrianske Pravno with an Emphasis on Agriculture

Marián Žabenský

The study deals with the issue of the impact of mining on the process of adaptation of the German cultural minority with an emphasis on agriculture. A multi-temporal analysis of sections of cultural and landscape layers was used to monitor these processes, which compares the state of the cultural landscape with an emphasis on selected land-use classes. Emphasis is placed on the non-urban area of Nitrianske Pravno, which was colonized by German-speaking inhabitants in the 14th century. The conclusions are aimed at defining specific factors influencing the adaptation of the agricultural landscape. These include, in particular, the shape of the land as a remnant of emphyteutic colonisation, the exploitation of the non-urban area for mining, the unsuccessful development of agriculture, the development of livestock production and crafts, and the stagnation and extinction of viticulture. Other conclusions are focused on changes in the social-organizational structure of the township and on the assessment of the adaptation process. For more relevant assessment of the issue in question, the analysis of land-use classes was also used. Its results confirm some of the conclusions presented in this paper.

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Quo Vadis? Czech and Moravian Agriculture between 2000 and 2020

Pavel Novák

The study, made using statistical and historical methods, provides hard statistical data for ethnological research. The presented work proves that, despite the reduction in the sown area and livestock quantity, the agriculture of the Czech Republic is food secure due to the increase in hectare yields and productivity. New specializations of agricultural business have developed, especially landscape maintenance, production of crops for non-agricultural use, agro-tourism and organic farming. In the course of the monitored period, privatisation of state farms and restitution of property of persons affected by the communist regime were completed. Church restitution is still ongoing. The share of agriculture in the gross domestic product and employment is still declining, and agriculture is only very slowly reducing the gap with industry in labour productivity. Farmers have difficulties in selling their products in hypermarkets owned by foreign companies, and imports exceed exports in foreign trade. It is no longer worth running business in agriculture, despite the high level of subsidies, and due to low wages it is nor profitable even for employees to work in agriculture. The Czech Republic is average in European comparison. From a long-term perspective, the subsidy-based agricultural policy of the European Union and the Czech Republic is unsustainable.

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