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PhDr. Rastislava Stolicna, CSc.,
Institute of Ethnology of Slovak Academy of Sciences, Jakubovo
nam. 12, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovakia
Cereals were the basic food of the majority of human cultures.
The paper looks at all the cultivated species on the territory
of Slovakia, and assigns them to their wider historico-cultural
context. It emphasizes the culinary conditions of cereals, which
had decisive importance during their varied use in food. At the
same time it introduces rich Slovak material about cereal foods,
and places them in an inter-ethnic context.
pp. 287-300
PhDr. Lubica Faltanova, CSc.,
Institute of Ethnology of Slovak Academy of Sciences, Jakubovo
nam. 12, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovakia
The paper gives a review of the main ethnographic and ethnological
findings in the area of the picture of traditional trade, as they
arose in Slovakia from the beginning of the formation of an academic
discipline to the present. In the course of the development of
interest in folk culture, the intensity of emphasis on understanding
traditional trade as an independent whole varied. An extensive
material basis is found within the framework of other themes (domestic
production, folk crafts). The paper looks at the various developmental
circumstances of definition of the problems of traditional trade.
It summarizes the state of research on individual questions concerning
trade.
pp. 301-312
PhDr. Stanislav Duzek, CSc.,
Ustav hudobnej vedy SAV, Dubravska cesta 9, 841 05 Bratislava,
Slovakia
In Slovakia, independent dances for women and men were quite common
but unevenly distributed in the first half of the 20th century.
They belong to various types and less defined typological groups
of folk dance. Four national questionnaire surveys and research
projects carried out in the last fifty years are significant sources
of data about their representation in the folk dance repertoir.
These surveys show a progressive narrowing of the repertoir and
a growing disconnection of the territorial occurrence of folk
dances, especially in West Slovakia. In comparison with couple
and communal dances, womens' and mens' dances are particularly
threatened types of folklore dance.
pp. 313-321
Mgr. Peter Michalovic,
Ustav hudobnej vedy SAV, Dubravska cesta 9, 841 05 Bratislava,
Slovakia
Manuscripts are an important source which preserve folk musical
culture in a particular way. A whole series of manuscript song
books from the 18th and 19th centuries is connected with the region
of Zahorie. The majority of them contain only texts. Some are
anonymous, or without closer localization. A catalogue of these
written records outlines the history of musical culture in this
south-western region of Slovakia.
pp. 322-347
PhDr. Eva Krekovicova, CSc.,
Ethnologisches Institut der Slowakischen Akademie der Wissenschaften,
Jakubovo nam. 12, 81364 Bratislava, Slowakei
The paper traces the reflection of the „Gypsy" (Romany)
in Slovak folklore, on the basis of folk songs, proverbs, stories
and above all anecdotes. The figure of the Gypsy in folklore is
ambivalent. There is an expression of a certain degree of tolerance
from the side of the majority community. This tolerance is a result
of the long-term coexistence, especially of settled Romanies with
the rural population of Slovakia. At the same time, the tolerance
was limited by formulated barriers. Strict endogamy was one of
the most important of these. Further barriers were mainly of a
social, cultural and moral-ethical character, even when they were
supposed to be ethnic. In connection with the genre rules of folklore,
the image of the Gypsy was different to some degree in songs,
proverbs and prose. The frequent cycle of anecdotes about the
comic figure of the Gypsy deserves special attention. He mostly
receives a positive evaluation.
pp. 348-364