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Classification of Folk Narrative (Proposal of The Catalogue of Czech Belief Legends)
Luffer, Jan ; Šalanda, Bohuslav (advisor) ; Ulrychová, Marta (referee) ; Gašparíková, Viera (referee)
A B S T R A C T ( E N G L I S H ) Classification and cataloguing of folk narrative has been one of the important topics of folklore comparative studies. The present thesis examines the topic from the theoretical and methodological point of view in its first part and from the appliqued point of view in its second part. The introduction of the theoretical part describes the genre of folk legend on the basis of textual (content, form, structure) and contextual (belief, function, distribution) criteria. Next chapter pursues an analysis of classificatory systems and catalogues of folk narrative of the whole world. The chapter is divided into two main groups according to typological or structural principles. We focus on the development of international folktale catalogue of Aarne-Thompson(-Uther) and its influence, especially when encountered with catalogues of Non-European narratives. We also deal with Czech and Slovak works in cataloguing and our main concern is cataloguing of European folk legends. The content of the following chapter is an overview and evaluation of sources selected as a material for our catalogue. The practical part of the work is a proposal and processing of typological catalogue of Czech belief legends, which is intended to serve as a tool for folklorists and scholars of relative...
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Contemporary legend and rumor in the Czech Republic. Origin, genesis and social and cultural function of domestic urban folklore in international context
Janeček, Petr ; Šalanda, Bohuslav (advisor) ; Ulrychová, Marta (referee) ; Pospíšilová, Jana (referee)
(English) Ph.D. Thesis Contemporary Legend and Rumour in the Czech Republic. Origin, Genesis and Social and Cultural Function of Domestic Urban Folklore in International Context Petr Janeček Presented study analyzes character, origin, genesis and social and cultural functions of specific type of prosaic oral narratives transmitted in contemporary oral and non-oral tradition on territory of the Czech Republic. Main attention is given to realistic narratives with primary informative and entertaining function, which are usually presented by their tellers as at least potentially real story or information about actual, genuine happenings of both local and social importance, but whose variants, versions and editions simultaneously circulate over wider geographical and temporary horizon. Because of that, these narratives are labelled by international folkloristics as folklore genres of "contemporary legend" and "rumour". After overview and critical analysis of history of international studies of these two genre concepts, their terminology and genre (both formal and thematic) characteristics in international and Czech folkloristics are presented, as well as relationship of these genres to similar contemporary folklore forms, especially gossip, conspiracy theories, anecdotes and jokes, demonological...
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The Sexual Activity in Adolescence as a Passage Ritual to the Social Adulthood
Petrášek, Michal ; Skupnik, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Ulrychová, Marta (referee) ; Vrhel, František (referee)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT This thesis deals with sexual behavior of young people from fifteen till twenty-five years in the Czech Republic. Their activities are evaluated and interpreted from anthropological perspective of passage rituals. The official passage rituals of adulthood were eliminated in the western society and one universal passage ritual was crumbled in inexhaustible assemblage of particular unofficial hazy and often unclear ritual actions. This transformation begins because the man is according to Mary Douglas a ritual animal and the ritual suppressed in one form appears in another on even stronger. In this large assemblage of passage rituals of adulthood we can include for example dancing courses, school- leaving examination, gaining of the driving licence, smoking, drinking alcohol or just sexual activity. In the period of adolescence we can mark this activity as ritual because it has not the clear utilitarian procreative aim. This work presents original field research which bears on two main pillars: 1. on the quantitative questionnaire investigation and 2. on qualitative questionnaire investigation. The quantitative research was made in the secondary schools in Pilsen region and its main part count one hundred-eighty eight respondents. The research was going on during the year 2008 - 2009. The...
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Folk music in the recordings of the Phonographic Commission of Czech Academy of Sciences and Arts
Kratochvíl, Matěj ; Tyllner, Lubomír (advisor) ; Matoušek, Vlastislav (referee) ; Ulrychová, Marta (referee)
The object of the thesis is a collection of recordings made in the first half of the 20th century by Phonographic commission of the Czech Academy. The aim is to reconstruct the history of the project and to analyze the folk m usic included in the collection, so it is possible to tell to what extent it can be taken as a representative sample of folk musical culture of Czechoslovakia in the first half of the 20th century. In 1928 the Phonographic Commission was established at the Czech Academy. Although the idea was originally suggested by linguists, it was decided that all acoustic manifestations of the nations living in the republic would be recorded: i.e. folk and artificial music, narrations in dialects, speeches by theatre actors and important personalities of the public life. Folk music comprised in the end an important part of the outcome of Commission's efforts. The recordings took place in 1929, 1933, 1934, and 1937, first in cooperation with the French company Pathé, later with the Czech company Esta. The outcome of the activities of the Phonographic commission includes a total number of 291 sides contain the recordings of folk music from Slovakia, Carpathian Ruthenia, Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia, and Lusatian Sorbia. Singing and spoken word are sometimes combined in individual recordings. Excluded...
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