Title in English: Andrej Melicherčík – personality in time, time in personality. The publication is dedicated to one of the founding personalities of modern professional ethnography and folklore ...studies – prof. PhDr. A. Melicherčík, CSc. (1917-1966). The author has collected and interpreted numerous factual data about Melicherčík´s university studies at the Faculty of Arts of the Slovak University, but especially about his work at Matica slovenská, at the Slovak Academy of Sciences and Arts and at the Faculty of Arts of Comenius University. She characterizes his numerous activities in the field of organization of scientific life and pedagogical work. The author pays special attention to the methodological approaches that A. Melicherčík applied in his scientific work – functional structuralism and historical materialism. In both approaches, he was the initiator of their application in ethnography and folklore studies in Slovakia. The author analyses his work chronologically – studies, monographs and synthetic publications in terms of concepts, research topics and the organizational grasp of their research and publication. She points out the possible influences of scientific personalities (P. G. Bogatyriov, B. Schier et al.), as well as the non-scientific circumstances that influenced Melicherčík’s understanding of the subject, methods and instrumentalization of ethnography and folklore studies.
On Oct 23, 2014, Pavol Paska, the Speaker of the Slovak Parliament, awarded prizes in the historic building of the Parliament. The Prizes of the Speaker of the National Council of the Slovak Republic ...for the development of culture and humanities have been awarded since 2007. This year, the prize for outstanding achievements in ethnology and folklore studies was awarded to Milan Lescak.
Prof. PhDr. Andrej Melicherčík, CSc. (1917–1966) is one of the founding personalitiesof professional folklore studies in Slovakia. During his studies of Slovak and Germanat the Slovak University ...(today, Comenius University) in Bratislava, he was largelyin fluenced by the lectures of P. G. Bogatyryov who was at that time working at theBratislava university. Bogatyryov’s application of functional structuralism was aninspiration for Melicherčík’s research and theoretical thinking about the phenomenaof traditional culture, specifically folklore, but the paper also focuses on Melicherčík’sapplication of the so-called Marxist methodology. The article deals with the thematicand methodological contexts of Melicherčík’s significant work on the contemporaryhistorical and political turning points of the 20thcentury in Czechoslovakia. Theauthor focused on one of the dominant topics of Melicherčík’s research programme– the robber/Jánošík tradition, and describes the underlying conceptual contexts andthe methodological tools used. The objects of analysis were Melicherčík’s monographbooks on this topic and chapters in synthesis works.
This paper is devoted to the issue of the so-called second existence of folklore, in folkloristics designated by the term folklorism. In the processes of folklorism phenomena of traditional culture ...make their way into a communication system where a technical type of communication prevails. Folklorism is based on a change of the context or often on a stylisation: on processes of levelling and typicisation in a direction from
local to global, with the local taking on a symbolic value. In the author’s view, the phenomena of folklorism are a manifestation of contemporary popular culture, where interest in traditional culture/folklore represents one of the alternatives for selfidentification of the individual, as a member of the so-called folklore community in the context of free time activities. Taking as examples three events of folklorism in
Slovakia: the Východná Folklore Festival, Rozprávačské Lodno (storytelling) and Posolstvo piesní Slovensku a svetu (singing), she also addresses the concept of authenticity, analysing the articulation of space in these events.
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