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Some aspects in the culture of the Banat Rroma from the perspective of the Kalderash Rromani language in Romania
Andrš, Zbyněk ; Šatava, Leoš (advisor) ; Kostič, Svetislav (referee) ; Weinerová, Renata (referee)
The presented thesis is concerned with the language of the Banat Rroma, the Kalderash Rromani language. The paper focuses on three topics: anthroponyms, language variance and speech etiquette. The paper endeavours to describe and analyze these topics looking at the perspective from which the three mentioned domains are seen and evaluated by the Banat Rroma themselves. The paper's first section outlines a brief history of the Rroma in Banat and their sociocultural and demographic characteristics. Based on the analysis of personal and group proper names, the chapter "Anthroponyms" provides a classification arising from their mutual hierarchical relationships, semantic motivation, as well as the functions such names perform. The next chapter, "Language varieties and speech styles", is concerned with the matter of bilingualism and diglossia, presenting the classification of speech styles and providing the description of the three most distinct styles. The third and final section, "Speech etiquette", analyses the three pairs of courtesy forms in the context of the communication situations in which they are used.
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Mardi Gras as a phenomenon of New Orleans local culture
Urbišová, Julie ; Krupková, Jaroslava (referee) ; Šatava, Leoš (advisor)
Diploma thesis "Mardi Gras as a phenomenon of New Orleans local culture" describes the tradition of carnival in the city of New Orleans, Louisiana. Carnival in Louisiana is a very old festival - that is why I described history of this festival until its present form. Carnival in United States of America is connected to people with French heritage, who are known as Creoles. I also explained creole culture. During the years, carnival was changed, influenced and enriched many times thanks to many different people, who moved into New Orleans. I also considered their important role in Mardi Gras. I visited New Orleans many times and I was able to make terrain research during couple carnival seasons. I was also able to interview many interesting people who are part of carnival. I used the results of my participating observation and interviews to describe carnival in present form. This festival is still very popular not only for New Orleans inhabitants, but also for many tourists from all around the world. I also wrote about Mardi Gras from economical point of view.
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Czechs in Berlin, political emigration 1948-1989. Time period determined motives and strategies of exile in biography of political emigrant
Herrmann, Richard ; Šatava, Leoš (advisor) ; Kašpar, Oldřich (referee)
This qualitative study strives to capture the strategie s and motivations for emmigration of Czechoslovak citizens to former West Berlin between the years 1948 and 1989, describing it from emmigrants' perspective. The main focus of the study is an analysis of emmigration incentives and strategie s utilized by the then Czechoslovak citizens, currently living in Berlin. The theoretical base for the study consists of the theory of collective historical memory, the problem of secondary and tertiary socialization, the (mal)adaptation to new host environments and the biographical approach to emigration studies. The incentives and strategie s of political emmigration are analyzed within the context of the political and social development between the years 1946 and 1989. The study is chronologically organized according to the following historical periods and political events: (1) the takeover ofpower by communists in 1946-1948, (2) the political persecutions ofthe 1950s, (3) the liberalization ofthe communist regime during the 1960s, (4) the events ofPrague Spring in 1968, (5) the military intervention ofthe Warsaw Treaty countries on 21. August 1968, (6) the consolidation era, (7) the Czechoslovak citizens' mass emmigration between the years 1968 and 1970, (8) the Czechoslovak citizens' mass emmigration of the...
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Ethnolinguistic situation of young Sámi in northern Norway
Kukurová, Katarína ; Šavelková, Lívia (referee) ; Šatava, Leoš (advisor)
This master thesis is dealing with the question ofyoung Sámi people in the urban culture. The author has got aU the knowledge by studying literature and also by doing her own research at the University ofTroms0. She is describing the language and social situation ofthe Sámi students at the most northern university. At the same time she is comparing this situation with the one ofyoung Sámi in Kautokeino. The main goal ofthe thesis is to find out how the norwegian urban atmosphere effect the awareness ofyoung Sámi.
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Children of African immigrants in Portugal: strategies of identity construction
Kraftová, Barbora ; Šatava, Leoš (referee) ; Pargač, Jan (advisor)
In my thesis I deal with processes of identity construction among the children of immigrants from Lusophone Africa (Portuguese-speaking African countries) living in Portugal. The group in focus serves as a starting point for an examination of how the new hybrid and syncretic identities are constructed in today's globalized world. The children of immigrants, balancing on the edge of two or more cultures and identities and not fitting in any of the categories through which people normally identify themselves, are an ideal group for the illustration of these phenomena. In the course of my field work I was able to identify three main strategies by means of which the children of immigrants cope with their ambivalent position in society and try to find their place in the world: the strategy of identification with Portugal, the strategy of identification with their parents' country of origin and the strategy of mixed identification. Through the analysis of the functioning of these three strategies I try to find out the factors that determine which strategy each of the informants chooses and what is the impact of this choice on their lives. The results tell us a lot not only about the children of immigrants themselves but about the Portuguese society in general as well.
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Population (and) national policy of the People's Republic of China towards ethnic minorities
Horálek, Adam ; Šatava, Leoš (advisor) ; Pargač, Jan (referee)
This study deals with relations between ethnic issue of China on the one hand and the population (and) national policy on the other. The essen-tial issue is whether the ethnic categories are exactly based on ethnic consciousness or if they are more of a politically modified construct. This study does not aspire to judge whether or not it is such case, but rather to put forward many arguments for and against this statement. The important thing that must be discussed is terminology concerning the essential concept- minzu. To correlate minzu with any in-Europe- practiced ethnological terminology is disputable, especially because of the diametric distinctions between both regions. Although the tempo-rarily used terminology has its roots in Stalinist conception of "natsion-alnost", different components must also be pointed out. The results of the research on Sino-Tibetan borderland and its ethnic minorities are used to support the documentation of the issue as applied on the whole People's Republic of China (PRC). Nonetheless, this work is out of any micro regional analysis, due to its more theoretical focus. In accordance with this theme, it was necessary to work in interdiscipli-nary point of view based mostly (except for ethnology, of course) on geography, demography, sinology and cartography. Due to this...
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The depiction of Others in Armenian sources of the 16th-18th centuries
Kohoutková, Petra ; Šatava, Leoš (advisor) ; Šmíd, Tomáš (referee) ; Aslan, Emil (referee)
The dissertation titled The Depiction of Others in Armenian Sources of the 16th - 18th Centuries is conceived as scholarly research at the boundary between two disciplines - ethnology and history. The introductory chapters devoted to the formation of the stereotypical images of Others and to the fundamental attributes of the Armenian identity served as a sort of springboard for my analysis of Armenian historical texts. Secondarily, they permitted me to tackle the question of the traditional "Us against Them" dichotomy, taking as an example the local Armenian communities and their chief "enemies" - Muslims, heretics and converts. My effort has been to capture the relations between the Armenians and their Muslim neighbors before ethnic stereotypes had been codified during the period of growing nationalism. The main part of the dissertation, titled We and They: Categories of Others in the Eyes of Armenian Chroniclers from the Frontiers, is based mainly on the study of primary sources - period Armenian chronicles and colophons. It is a probe into regional history; a microhistory of the Lake Van region in the 17th and 18th centuries. Reflected in its example is the history of all of the Ottoman Empire and its gradual decline, the deterioration of the standing of the dhimmi and the growing tensions between...
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Czechs in Berlin, political emigration 1968-1989
Herrmann, Richard ; Šatava, Leoš (referee) ; Kašpar, Oldřich (advisor)
This qualitative study strives to capture the strategies and motivations for emmigration of Czechoslovak citizens to former West Berlin between the years 1968 and 1970, describing it from emmigrants' perspective. The main focus of the study is an analysis of emmigration incentives and strategies utilized by the then Czechoslovak citizens, currently living in Berlin. The theoretical base for the study consists of the theory of collective historical memory, the problem of secondary and tertiary socialization, the (mal)adaptation to new host environments and the biographical approach to emmigration studies. The incentives and strategies of political emmigration are analyzed within the context of the political and social development between the years 1946 and 1970. The study is chronologically organized according to the following historical periods and political events: (1) the takeover of power by communists in 1946-1948, (2) the political persecutions of the 1950s, (3) the liberalization of the communist regime during the 1960s, (4) the events of Prague Spring, (5) the military intervention of the Warsaw Treaty countries, (6) the consolidation and normalization era, (7) the Czechoslovak citizens' mass emmigration between the years 1968 and 1970. In this study, the historical facts and figures are supplemented...
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Coexistence of Norwegians and Sami people in the northern Norway's region Finnmark
Veľký, Martin ; Šatava, Leoš (advisor) ; Lupták Burzová, Petra (referee)
Bachelor thesis is aiming to analyze coexistence of Norwegians and Sami people in the northern Norway's county Finnmark. It is topic about mutual coexistence of two seemingly different groups with different languages, different lifestyle and different historical and political proceses. First part is focused on methodology and acquitance of reader with basic concepts. Next one reflects author's own field research in area. Other parts analyze mutual relationships in different topics, such as history, politics,education system, and current issues. Combination of extensive field research and theoretical approaches allows to look at problematics from variously points of view and offers different perspectives. Key words: Sami people, Norwegians, coexistence, political changes, nationalism, ethnical minorities, language
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