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Travelling Painted Pebbles as a Form of Gift in Public Space
Procházková, Alžběta ; Janeček, Petr (advisor) ; Půtová, Barbora (referee)
The thesis focuses on the contemporary cultural practice of painting and picking up travelling painted pebbles in the Czech Republic. These pebbles are left in a public space by their creators as a gift to a stranger. The finder of such a pebble can share photo of fit on electronic social networks and then move it to another place. The aim of the thesis is to determine and interpret the meanings that these pebbles have for both their creators and finders. It does so by proposing a typology of pebbles according to their functions. The thesis further specifies the actors' motivations for creating painted stones as well as for searching them and picking them up. The research has confirmed that by performing the activities associated with this practice, actors exchange gifts, and these gifts can take several forms. Travelling painted pebbles also show signs of objects of serial collaboration of Lynne McNeill's theory.
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The late socialist Czechoslovak ethnography and folklore studies and its influence on the Czech tradition of sociocultural anthropology after 1989
Balaš, Nikola ; Bittnerová, Dana (advisor) ; Janeček, Petr (referee) ; Woitsch, Jiří (referee)
This thesis is an attempt to provide an account of the late socialist discipline of Czechoslovak ethnography and folklore studies and provide a basis for understanding of ethnography's post socialist transformation into anthropology and ethnology. The main theoretical framework of the thesis is the critical sociology of science of Pierre Bourdieu. The thesis focuses especially on two ethnography institutions - the Department of Ethnography and Folklore Studies at Charles University in Prague and the Prague branch of the Institute for Ethnography and Folklore Studies of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in the late socialist period, which covers the 1970s and 1980s. Apart from providing some intellectual dimension of ethnography, the thesis aims to uncover other dimensions of ethnographers' practices such as research methods, language competences, writing habits, academic hierarchies or attitudes to mutual criticism. The thesis argues that whereas ethnography as a label disappeared in the 1990s, ethnographers' practices continued to shape the nascent Czech anthropology and ethnology. The thesis makes an intensive use of ethnographers' scholarly writings, interviews with former ethnographers and also uses some documentary evidence and secondary literature as its sources. Keywords: history of...
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Informal transmission of vernacular "folk recipes" among Czech young adults
Nôšková, Dominika ; Janeček, Petr (advisor) ; Půtová, Barbora (referee)
The primary purpose of the bachelor's thesis was to map out the process of informal intergenerational transmission of "recipe knowledge", vernacular, often family recipes that have to do with proper digestion and prevention of indigestion in the environment of contemporary Czech youth at the age of young adulthood (i.e., 18-25 years). The work is defined by research questions, "From whom, when and where did this generation gain knowledge of recipes", "Does this generation actively pass on recipe knowledge?" "To whom, when and in what situations is this transfer made?" " The data documentation was primarily conducted on the basis of both informal and formalized interviews with the interviewees. Part of the work is a theoreticalhistorical part, seeking to define the concept of "recipe knowledge" in dialogue with ethnological and folklorist literature. Using internet analysis, semi-structured interviews and a questionnaire investigation, I have come to the conclusion that recipe knowledge or advice is still a topic of discussion. Young adults, from smaller towns and villages, who moved to Prague between the ages of 12-15, are particularly close to this. Referring to the interviews and results from the questionnaires, it is more women who provide, pass on and practice grandmotherly advice in everyday life....
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Between waking and dreaming: Cultural transformations of a sleep paralysis
Jedinák, Boris ; Janeček, Petr (advisor) ; Jakoubek, Marek (referee)
On one side, the diploma thesis examines the phenomenon of sleep paralysis (hereinafter referred to as SP), its cultural conceptualizations in archaic folklore in the Czech lands and in contemporary (modern) folklore - mainly it is focused on individual and collective explanations of its meanings. The theoretical part briefly outlines the character of SP from the perspective of modern psychiatry and the archaic folkloric interpretations of this sleep disorder appearing in various non-European cultures. The theoretical part is mostly focused on the phenomenon of the moth, the phantom, which the author considers to be one of possible understandings of this sleep disorder in the legends and customs of archaic Czech folklore. The research part of the thesis is based on ethnographic fieldwork. The aim was to map out, on the basis of ethnographic interviews with people who have experienced SP, how SP can be interpreted individually today, how this individual interpretation overlaps with the folkloric manifestations of the sleep disorder described in the theoretical part, relevant to a given cultural setting, and how pre-existing cultural models appearing in contemporary popular culture and modern folklore shape the individual experience of SP and the personal interpretation of informants. In yet another...
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Folk costumes from North-East Bohemia: Their differences and common traits
Mašek, Tomáš ; Janeček, Petr (advisor) ; Štěpánová, Irena (referee)
This bachelor's thesis deals with analysis of regional and local differentiation of folk costumes from northeast Bohemia. The research question of this thesis is which common traits are shared in folk costumes in three main regions of northeast Bohemia and which are different and specific on the level of microregions. Following question is the reason of this differenciation from the historical and cultural point of view and constructing imaginary borders of these regions based on cultural topography and etnography in contrast of borders invented by folklore movement. (folklore ensembles, "baráčníci", etc.) Metodology of this thesis is based on work with sources from archives and muzeums, etnologic photography, fieldwork and interviews with members of folklore clubs in regions. The first part deals with introduction to the area this thesis is interrested in and its definition, general description of folk cotumes, its parts and functions and common traits of folk costumes from northeast Bohemia. The second part which begins with chapter Kroje severovýchodních Čech (Folk costumes of northeast Bohemia) deals with definition of specific regions of northeast Bohemia and with detailed description of folk costumes which are typical for these regions with an emphasis on their differences. Keywords: Folk...
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Collective vs. individual narrative repertoire on example of specific folk groups in Moravian Slovakia
Čechmánková, Martina ; Janeček, Petr (advisor) ; Kreisslová, Sandra (referee)
(in English): In villages in ethnographic region Slovácko, there is still alive extensive number of annual popular festivities and practices connected with safeguarded or imagined folk culture. These practices, for example feast, making a May tree or Shrovetide etc., are organised by different kinds of folk groups and their realisations and preparations are reminded in various narratives, which are generationaly spread in oral transmission, or they are migrating. Narratives are reminded by repeating of these festivities. Narratives are mostly about problems with wearing folk costumes, stealing May trees or planning a village round. I collected also narratives about effect of popculture.
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Contemporary reflection of the German expulsion after WWII in the region of Aš
Haken, Jan ; Jakoubková Budilová, Lenka (advisor) ; Janeček, Petr (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with the past of the West Bohemian town of Aš, specifically with the expulsion of Czech Germans from this region, the period of socialist dictatorship, and the events after 1989. It also examines the relationship of the local inhabitants to contemporary Germany and to the ethnic minorities that inhabit Aš. It attempts to provide insights into these themes through the interpretation of in-depth interviews with local narrators and explores how these contemporary and historical aspects have influenced the formation of the identity of contemporary residents as Czechs and residents of Aš. In addition, the thesis asks more general questions about the relationship of the local population to contemporary Germany, especially what positives and negatives the locals see in living its proximity. Keywords: identity, social and cultural groups, explusion of Czech Germans, Aš, socialism, postsocilism, minorities, border, 1989, collective memories
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Kostelní Radouň - South Bohemian Village: Traditional and Contemporary Family and Community Rituals
Štrosová, Lenka ; Janeček, Petr (advisor) ; Štěpánová, Irena (referee)
The thesis is devoted to village society. The main theme of the work is the issue of annual customs and traditions, amateur sports and cultural associations and activities, their tradition and importance for the South Bohemian village Kostelní Radouň. The main aim is to map the current state of the annual customs and rituals and other collective activities. Further attention is paid to their role and function in social and cultural life of the village inhabitants. The work is divided into several chapters, with the introducory chapters is devoted to the development of interest in traditional folk culture within the study area and the changes in village society in the second half of the 20th century, which affected the annual customs and habits. The next chapter describes the atmosphere of the village and its facilities. The following chapters deal with local associations and organizations, which are the main organizers of collective entertainment. Another chapter describes the annual traditions and customs, their traditional form and the current state in the village Kostelní Radouň. Based on data collected during field research realized in the village, and the study of existing sources was found out that in the village Kostelní Radouň currently maintain several annual traditions and customs that...
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