Electronic Library of Scientific Literature


SLOVENSKY NARODOPIS / SLOVAK ETHNOLOGY



Volume 46, 2/1998



THE REFLECTION OF „OUR" AND „OTHER" ETHNIC GROUPS IN THE SLOVAK FOLKLORE

REFLEXIA „SVOJHO" A „INÝCH" ETNÍK V SLOVENSKOM FOLKLÓRE (K otázkam etnickej identity Slovákov)

Doc.PhDr. Ľubica Droppová,CSc.
Katedra etnológie FF UK, Gondova 2, 818 01 Bratislava, Slovakia

The paper deals with self-reflection of Slovaks in comparison with other ethnic groups, based on the analysis of the Slovak folk songs and proverbs. The author has found relative low frequency of this theme and less apparent intensity of ethnic images and stereotypes in Slovak folk songs

Key words: ethnic identification, folk songs, proverbs

pp. 147-162

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STRUCTURE OF OPPOSITIONS IN RECENT FOLK BELIEFS AMONG THE MEXICAN INDIANS

ŠTRUKTÚRA OPOZÍCIÍ V SÚČASNEJ ĽUDOVEJ VIERE MEXICKÝCH INDIÁNOV

Mgr. Milan Kováč
Oddelenie religionistiky - Katedra etnológie FiF UK, Gondova 2, 818 01 Bratislava, Slovakia

The study deals with the structure of oppositions in recent folk beliefs among the Indians in Mexico. In the study the author follows several oppositions: warm and cold, man and animal, black and white, life and death, older and younger brother, yin and yang. On the basis of these oppositions he considers as the most elementary of all the structure of binary oppositions in which the opposites neither eliminate each other, nor become the one and nor play the antagonistic role. He strongly criticizes the terms generally used in this connection, as dualism or dialectic. He suggests to use the term two-hausing, introduced by M. M. Bachtin.

Key words: folk belief, Indians, Mexico

pp. 163-178

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INTERPRETATIVE ETHNOGRAPHY AND THEORETICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

INTERPRETATÍVNA ETNOGRAFIA A TEORETICKÁ ANTROPOLÓGIA

Prof. Dan Sperber
Université Paris X (Nanterre), France

The author of the study deals with the scientific roles, aims and methods of the anthropology and ethnography. He pays attention to the „interpretation"and „description" and exemplifies validity of both in their using as ethnographic methods. He stresses the necessarity of using of descriptive commentaries which would support the empiric relevance of interpretations. He distinguishes the „object" and its „representation" _ and argues that scientific description is more adequate representation than the interpretation, because it is quite impossible to corroborate or verify it. Thus interpretation has only epistemologic value and it could not serve as a valid source of „objective" facts. On the end the author defines both the roles of anthropology and ethnography. The aim the anthropology is to explain the cultural representations, which means to explain the factors which order the selection of certain representations and their spreading in the social community. The ethnography, on the other hand, should not produce the interpretative generalizations but try to understand the life-experience of the social community or individuals and then try to find the most adequate way how to intermediate this understanding or how to make it intelligible for us.

Key words: ethnography, anthropology

pp. 179-193

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NA MARGO JEDNÉHO MARGA
(Ad: Krekovičová, E.: Na margo k dejinám slovenskej etnológie. Slovenský národopis 46/1998, č. 1, s. 75-79)

Martin Kanovský

pp. 194-195

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HREBENÁRI V RADVANI V 20. STOROČÍ
(Na príklade života a práce hrebenárskeho majstra Jána Dobrotu)

Zuzana Drugová

pp. 196-206

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POĽNOHOSPODÁRSKE POMERY V LIPTOVE V OBDOBÍ BACHOVHO ABSOLUTIZMU VO SVETLE ARCHÍVNYCH PRAMEŇOV

Slavko Churý

pp. 207-210

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ROZHĽADY-SPRÁVY-GLOSY

pp. 211-230

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RECENZIE-ANOTÁCIE

pp. 231-248

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