This article discusses selected ritual practices in Klagenfurt (Sln. Celovec), the capital of the southernmost Austrian state of Carinthia (Germ. Kärnten). The first ritual is connected with October ...10, when the 1920 plebiscite is commemorated on the streets of Klagenfurt. In this plebiscite, the majority of people voted for remaining a part of Austria, the successor state to Austria-Hungary. The second ritual is a more recent one, known as the Memorial Walk (Germ. Gedenkgehen, Sln. Spominska hoja). Various cultural practices are analysed, as well as the use of symbols and space, media, state, and national discourses.
Entre la partie et le tout Fikfak, Jurij
Revue des sciences sociales (Strasbourg),
12/2018
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Odprti dostop
Un chercheur qui s’intéresse à la culture populaire, au mode de vie ou encore à la science empirique de la culture, aborde toujours la question de la représentation d’une totalité en tant ...qu’expression de la vie d’une communauté dans un environnement donné. Quels énoncés et quels informateurs faut-il choisir et présenter ? Les différentes réponses à ces questions révèlent autant de manières d’envisager le « peuple » et la « culture ». À partir de quelques travaux ethnologiques et ethnographiques slovènes, l’auteur montre comment, entre la fin du xixe et le milieu du xxe siècle, ces concepts ont changé suivant des projets de construction de la nation et de réforme sociale.
Un chercheur qui s'intéresse à la culture populaire, au mode de vie ou encore à la science empirique de la culture, aborde toujours la question de la représentation d'une totalité en tant ...qu'expression de la vie d'une communauté dans un environnement donné. Quels énoncés et quels informateurs faut-il choisir et présenter ? Les différentes réponses à ces questions révèlent autant de manières d'envisager le « peuple » et la « culture ». À partir de quelques travaux ethnologiques et ethnographiques slovènes, l'auteur montre comment, entre la fin du xixe et le milieu du xxe siècle, ces concepts ont changé suivant des projets de construction de la nation et de réforme sociale.
This article discusses selected ritual practices in Klagenfurt (Sln. Celovec), the capital of the southernmost Austrian state of Carinthia (Germ. Kärnten). The first ritual is connected with October ...10, when the 1920 plebiscite is commemorated on the streets of Klagenfurt. In this plebiscite, the majority of people voted for remaining a part of Austria, the successor state to Austria-Hungary. The second ritual is a more recent one, known as the Memorial Walk (Germ. Gedenkgehen, Sln. Spominska hoja). Various cultural practices are analysed, as well as the use of symbols and space, media, state, and national discourses.
This text about the ambivalence of fieldwork, rituals, actors, and stories thematizes the relationship between the researcher and his informants and interlocutors (usually also the performers of a ...cultural practice), and it reveals dynamic processes at the same time. In the chapter “Texts and Realities” the author uses the carnival tradition known as škoromatija to decode a palimpsest structure and syncretic understanding of reality. The second chapter focuses on the production of local identity: a motif that is characteristic for today’s production of ritual practices and cultural heritage. The chapter “Illusions of Harmony” thematizes discourse on the relationship between the views and conceptions of the researcher and performer, whereby the author especially problematizes the search for and repeated discovery of golden eras. “The Timing of Verbalization” is a narrative about time as one of the most important categories of structuring a narrative. The researcher problematizes the perception of time and the horizon, compares different timing of the past for himself and his interlocutor, and teases out caesurae in the structuring of time. In the last and partly self-ethnographic chapter on the ambivalence of fieldwork, the writer focuses on stories of “capturing” the reality, and stories about changing the approach to fieldwork and about the changed configurations of relations among actors.
On Niko Kuret, grand-old-man of Slovenian Folklore Studies, and His Life Career Slovenian academician Niko Kuret (Trst/Triest, April 24, 1906 - Ljubljana, January 25, 1995) not only laid the ...foundation for the ethnological institute and steadily developed it as an institution, but also contributed valuable research in the fields of ethnology and folklore studies in which his successors continue to discover scholarly and professional challenges. Overview of the lasting and meaningful life work of Niko Kuret by Slovenian folklorists Helena Ložar-Podlogar, Ingrid Slavec Gradišnik and Jurij Fikfak.
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