Gabriela KiliánováSlovak Academy of Sciences | SAV · Institute of Ethnology
Gabriela Kiliánová
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Publication of three co-authors from the Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology of the SAS v. v. i. focuses on the topic of the influence of ideology on social science research, specifically on efforts to use ethnography and related scientific disciplines by Nazi ideology in the 1940s. Using the example of the Institute for National Researc...
This paper considers the relations between political power and scholarly activity during the period of the communist regime in Slovakia, then part of Czechoslovakia. Taking the example of a research project on the Ukrainian minority, undertaken by the Slovak Academy of Sciences during the years 1954–70, the paper traces the relationships between sc...
The success of an academic journal depends on many factors. Let us, however, only mention two of them: its high-quality editing and its continuity. The Anthropological Journal of European Cultures is prosperous because it fulfils both of these criteria. This means it has been published periodically, nonstop for nearly three decades under the superv...
The Anthropological Journal of European Cultures, initiated by German scholar Ina-Maria Greverus together with Christian Giordano in 1990, played a central role in the fundamental changes that the hitherto more or less nationally confined European ethnologies have undergone since then. The journal mediated the intensifying exchange between eastern...
The contribution deals with the history of ethnology in Slovakia at the time of Czechoslovak period of “normalization” (1969-1989) and after essential political changes in 1989. The author focusses on the history of ethnology within the Institute of Ethnography of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (later the Institute of Ethnology of the Slovak Academ...
In the first part of the paper the author briefly describes the role of
social sciences and humanities in the present in Europe and in Slovakia. The
description focuses on those research fields, in which social sciences and
humanities contribute to the scientific knowledge the most. In the second
part the author addresses the questions, which were...
Ethnology in Central Europe to the Mid-Twentieth Century: The Canon of “National Science”Ethnology in a Divided Central Europe: Convergences and DivergencesThe “Anthropological Turn” in Ethnology – an Attempt to Transform the DisciplineConclusion
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The paper discusses dream narratives concerning deceased persons who were close to narrators. The author argues that the attitudes towards this type of dream narratives are specific in traditional as well as in modern society: such dreams are often interpreted as communication method between the worlds of living and dead people who need each other....
The Slovak Association of Social Anthropologists initiated recently a discussion about the ethics in the ethnology, social and cultural anthropology. In January 2009 the association organized the seminar “Ethics in ethnology/social anthropology which brought vivid response in the academic community in Slovakia. The paper will deal with the question...
The paper deals with the history of scientific thought in ethnology in Slovakia in the period immediately after the establishment of the Communist regime, i.e. the second half of the 1940s and the first half of the 1950s. This relatively short period was characterised by rapid changes in definition of the research subject, theoretical and methodolo...
The paper discusses the structure and functions of traditional storytelling communities in contemporary (post)modern Slovakia. The author uses empirical data from her fieldwork in a village of northern Slovakia. This is a region where the author has conducted fieldwork for more than two decades. Using a case study, the following research questions...
The paper analyses the theme of the "First World War" in the collections of oral tradition narratives recorded since the beginning of the 1960 in the framework of collective or individual ethnographic field research throughout Slovakia. The collected data are approached from two perspectives: 1. Memories of contemporary witnesses are seen as part o...
The ruins of Devín Castle have created a picture which has been inseparable from the collective memory of the Slovaks, Hungarians and Germans/Austrians within two hundred years. Devín reflects a construction of collective entitiens in Central Europe, in multiethnic and multicultural area where the promotion of the principles of a national state was...
The Slovak ethnology did not pay much attention to the comprehensive Encyclopedia “The Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in Word and Image” which was published in the years 1892 - 1902 in German and Hungarian language in Vienna and Budapest. This piece discusses the volumes devoted to the territory of contemporary Slovakia and analyzes the content, style a...
Die Slowakei zeichnete sich und zeichnet sich bis heute durch reiche, kontinuierlich gepflegte orale Traditionen in breitesten Schichten der Bevölkerung aus. Das Gebiet der Slowakei gliedert sich in eine weitere europäische Region Ostmitteleuropas bzw. Südosteuropas ein, in der die soziale, ökonomische und historische Entwicklung ähnlich verlief, m...
Seit 2000 arbeitet ein Forschungsteam des Ethnologischen Instituts der Slowakischen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Bratislava über das Thema Modernisierungsprozesse in der Slowakei aus ethnologischer Perspektive. Einerseits werden Modernisierungsprozesse als technologisch-ökonomische Schübe begriffen, die seit den letzten 150 bis 200 Jahren Lebensa...
