This book explores a fairly unique wine marketing topic by examining the role and historic function of Wine Queens and Wine Kings. The author charts the history of Wine Queens in Europe, the Americas and Asia, while also focusing on cases from Slovenia. The difference between Wine Queens and Beauty Queens is also describedin light of marketing approaches used in the wine industry.The book concludeswith a thoughtful chapter on the role of objectification of women in profit seeking.
COBISS.SI-ID: 57407842
The book provides a comprehensive exploration of witchcraft beliefs and practices in the rural region of Eastern Slovenia. Based on field research conducted at the beginning of the twenty-first century, it examines witchcraft in the region from folkloristic, anthropological, as well as historical, perspectives. Witchcraft is presented as part of social reality, strongly related to misfortune and involved in social relationships. The reality of the ascribed bewitching deeds, psychological mechanisms that may help bewitchment to work, circumstances in which bewitchment narratives can be mobilised, reasons for a person to acquire a reputation of the witch in the entire community, and the role that unwitchers fulfilled in the community, are but a few of the many topics discussed. In addition, the intertwinement of social witchcraft with narratives of supernatural experiences, closely associated with supernatural beings of European folklore, forming part of the overall witchcraft discourse in the area, is explored.
COBISS.SI-ID: 63177314
The chapter addresses Slovenian community in Argentina and explores relations between social memories of exile, conceptualisation and artistic representations of roots and homeland, and mythology, politics and practices of return mobilities. Ideas of roots and homeland are inherent in identification but also in creativity of individuals reflecting experiences of exile and life in diaspora. After the Slovenian independence in 1991, diasporic identities and mythology of return resulted in various return mobilities, e.g. tourist visits, pilgrimages, art exhibitions in Slovenia and return migration. The article is based on the most recent discussions of the ‘mobility paradigm’, and connects mobility to place and creativity. It shows how return mobilities recreate spatial relations, as they intertwine relations between places and times and between memories, present experiences and aspirations for future.
COBISS.SI-ID: 62771554
In the article, the author rethinks the conception of backpacker enclaves and their role in today’s international tourism and travelling and finds out, that travellers also often find their “place to be” through diverse networks and intermediaries among residents of destinations, either in tourist or non-tourist spaces. The article importantly highlights the role of academic and managerial constructions of such concepts and points out that in academic writing, they can persist long after decisive changes already take place in actual practices.
COBISS.SI-ID: 63357794
Based on field research, this article discusses various discourses that the inhabitants of the Eastern Slovenian region could use when discussing witchcraft. Further on it focuses on various possible uses of the witchcraft discourse: as long as witchcraft discourse had enough open support in the region, it constituted the context in which witchcraft narratives were “shared with licence”, which enabled people to draw upon and mobilize them for various purposes and with various intentions. This paper gives examples of how bewitchment narratives served as a strategy that individuals could appropriate and use to their benefit in everyday life.
COBISS.SI-ID: 61787746