Presented are the perceptions of different foreigners who came to Slovene lands in the past or in the present time, as shown in Slovene folk narratives. Despite often stereotyped picture of the ...Others, the research demonstrates an immense complexity of these narratives and the fact that they tell more about Us than about Them. The book ('The Mysteriou Stranger and the Demonic Enemy. “The Other” and Otherness in Slovene Folk Narratives') brings a theoretical overview of the current research on otherness in folklore studies and contextualizes the examples into a wider international folkloristic, anthropological and historical frames. Stories about the Turks, the Napoleon’s French and the Huns reflect an interweaving of historical facts, archetypical imageries of the dangerous Foreigner and ideological influences. These narratives are strongly embedded into the landscape and reinforce the sense of a common identity of its members. The imagery of historic aggressors is understandably quite different from the imagery of Jews and the Roma, with whom the people of the Slovene lands have had a completely different kind of contact.The same goes for contemporary foreigners from other countries. Nevertheless, they all display a high level of stereotypization, generalization and projection of fears upon “the Other”.
Na Slovenskem narodopisnem inštitutu Urban Jarnik, kjer raziskave in dokumentacije obsegajo vsa področja slovstvene folklore, je nesnovna kulturna dediščina močno razvejano raziskovalno področje. ...Avtorica v prispevku predstavlja kratek zgodovinski pregled zbiranja slovstvene folklore na Koroškem v funkciji utrjevanja slovenskega jezika, kulture in identitete (do leta 1920), v funkciji ohranjanja jezika, kulture in identitete (do leta 1991) in v iskanju sodobnih funkcij slovenske slovstvene folklore na Koroškem kot žive dediščine.
Divided as it is, philology is constantly improving through the emergence of new interdisciplinary sciences. One among them is ethnolinguistics. It has taken particularly firm roots in Slavic ...studies, especially with the Russian and Polish schools. While the diachronous researches of Nikita I. Tolstoy in Svetlana Tolstaya reach as far back as Slavic mythology, the Polish school, headed by Jerzy Bartmińsky, flirts with cognitive linguistics and is more interested, through its synchronous approach, in contemporary themes. The present monograph aims to evaluate the work carried out in this field to date and to raise awareness of the new interdisciplinary direction, which may link up the ethnologies and linguistics of different directions.
This book ('Folkloristic Portraits from three Centuries. From baroque to modernism') preseints 18 profiled personalities from the Slovenian spiritual, cultural history and linguistics from 17th ...Century (J. V. Valvasor, J. Svetokriški, and 18th Century (M. Pohlin, U. Jarnik) up to most of them in the 19th Century (P. Danjko, A. M. Slomšek, M. Ravnikar-Poženčan, A. Murko, S. Vraz, E. Korytko, J. Trdina, M. Valjavec. V. Urbas, G. Krek, S. Škrabec, G. Križnik, S. Rutar) to K. Štrekelj. The personalities are illuminated from folkloristic view, following the prehistory this profession.
Short folklore forms are diverse group of short folklore texts~some of these are used in everyday communication and are still alive, others are reserved for specific moments~some of them are ...disappearing from our linguistic and cultural environment. Their structure,function, texture and context of use differ very greatly, as well as their length~it may comprise a single word (eg. greetings), one sentence (proverbs, riddles) or a short text (defense, prayer). Book systematically and comprehensively shows the origin, structure and classification system, and aesthetic structures of the most representative short folklore forms: working exclamations, greetings, curses, proverbs, riddles, incantations and prayers.
This translation of the book ('The Historical Roots of Magic Tale') written by one of the most prominent Russian folklorists of the 20th century Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp, presents one more ...classical work of anthropological and folkloristical science to Slovenian researchers. The theoretical starting-points which Propp concived in his book “Morphology of the Folktale” was in this work projected on concrete material – on Russian and European folktales. By comparing folktale motifs with actual historical and anthropological sources he substantiated his structuralistical and ritualistical theoties in folk narrative research and folkloristics.
Presented are seven folktales from Resia in northern Italy with a strong Slovene minority. On CD are presented narratives which have been recorded on magnetic tape by Academician Milko Matičetov. ...Translations from the Resian dialect in Slovene and in Italian language are published in accompanying book. One folk tale was recently recorded by Roberto Dapit in the Resian village of Lischiazze/Liščaci, and has been included in the collection to illustrate contemporary Resian narrative tradition. The tales recorded on the compact disk represent four different language groups of the Resian dialect, namely that of Stolvizza/Solbica, Oseacco/Osojane, San Giorgio/Bila, and Gniva/Njiva. This work was done within the project Zborzbirk.
The monograph ('Folkloristic Portraits from 20th Century. Till the constitution Slovenian folkloristics') is chronical and logical continuation of the first book Folk portraits of three centuries. ...The author deals with 14 personalities who were active in the first half of the 20th century, ie. till the constitution of Slovenian folkloristics: J. Polivka, M. Murko, I. Koštial, I. Grafenauer, F. Kotnik, J. Kelemina, J. Glonar, F. Stele, J. Glazer, P. Zablatnik, V. Möderndorfer, L. Zupanc, J. Dolenc, M. Matičetov.
Focusing on Slovenian mythology the book contains a review of Slovenian mythological, historical, and narrative material. Over 150 supernatural beings are presented, both lexically and according to ...the role that they have in Slovenian folklore. They are classified by type, characteristic, features, and by the message conveyed in their motifs and contents. The material has been analysed in the context of European and some non-European mythological concepts, and the author deals with theory and interpretations as well as the conclusions of domestic and foreign researchers. The book forms new starting points and a classification of supernatural beings within a frame of a number of sources, some of which have been published for the first time in this book.
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