In the monograph, the author critically analyses narration about the Balkans and its peoples in the works of Western travellers and experts from different fields from 1531 onwards. Exploring over a thousand first-hand reports and comparing narratives spanning nearly 500 years, the author demonstrates that the act of observing other people and their environment mirrors the observer’s own culture and mentality, and how changes in the fields of ideology, politics, economy and culture shaped their observations.
COBISS.SI-ID: 25113186
In distinction to some older attempts in this field, it does not propagate cultural exclusivity, but indeed builds on cultural interweavement of slovenian mythological tradition with that of the nearer and more distant neighbours. These relations are documented with expansive bibliography. The book is innovative in methodological aspect, as it applies different methods and approaches, first of all, structural-phenomenological point of view. The monograph was awarded Matija Murko recognition by the Slovenian Ethnological Society in 2005.
COBISS.SI-ID: 217434880
The authors of the contributions to the monograph come to the conclusion that on account of insufficient theoretical reflection on protection of cultural heritage in Slovenia the existing system is unable to secure a more uniform, comprehensive and multidisciplinary approach to the protection of heritage. However, there is an ever greater need for such an approach because of huge imporvements in the fields of presentation of cultural heritage and its practical applications (concept of dynamic protection of heritage, emergence of new museums and museum centres, open-air-museums, parks etc.).
COBISS.SI-ID: 222061824
The monograph is a result of a fieldwork research in the rural environment of Eastern Slovenia in 2002-2001. Witchcraft is presented as a complex phenomenon, not separated from its social context, whereby one may distinguish various layers of witchcraft and various categories of witches.
COBISS.SI-ID: 229740032
The monograph brings some basic research on history and contemporary life-style in the territory of the former Yugoslavia and the Balkans. The monograph successfully supplement the basic monograph on the ethnology of the Balkans, here referred to under point one, and is based upon reflection of the impact of the process of modernisation, which was understood as Europeanisation of the area, in the territory of south-east Europe, and the paradoxes connected with these proceses.
COBISS.SI-ID: 234607616
In the monograph, the author critically analyses narration about the Balkans and its peoples in the works of Western travellers and experts from different fields from 1531 onwards. Exploring over a thousand first-hand reports and comparing narratives spanning nearly 500 years, the author demonstrates that the act of observing other people and their environment mirrors the observer’s own culture and mentality, and how changes in the fields of ideology, politics, economy and culture shaped their observations.
COBISS.SI-ID: 25113186
In distinction to some older attempts in this field, it does not propagate cultural exclusivity, but indeed builds on cultural interweavement of slovenian mythological tradition with that of the nearer and more distant neighbours. These relations are documented with expansive bibliography. The book is innovative in methodological aspect, as it applies different methods and approaches, first of all, structural-phenomenological point of view. The monograph was awarded Matija Murko recognition by the Slovenian Ethnological Society in 2005.
COBISS.SI-ID: 217434880
The authors of the contributions to the monograph come to the conclusion that on account of insufficient theoretical reflection on protection of cultural heritage in Slovenia the existing system is unable to secure a more uniform, comprehensive and multidisciplinary approach to the protection of heritage. However, there is an ever greater need for such an approach because of huge imporvements in the fields of presentation of cultural heritage and its practical applications (concept of dynamic protection of heritage, emergence of new museums and museum centres, open-air-museums, parks etc.).
COBISS.SI-ID: 222061824