Ethnology for the 21st century : bases and prospects /
Marta Botiková and Miroslav Válka and others.
- Brno : Masaryk University Press, (c)2017.
- 1 online resource.
- Etnologické studie ; 22 .
At head of title: Masaryk University, Faculty of Art, Department of European Ethnology.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Intro; List of Contents; Foreword; Historical Ethnology -- a Heritage or a Perspective Research Direction?; Traditional Folk Culture and Ethnology; Which Traditions Does the Teaching of Folkloristics at the University in Bratislava Follow?; The Benefit of Diachronic Research from the Perspective of Folkloristics; Etnomusicological Crossroads at the Outset of the 21st Century: Hindsight and Prospects of an Ethnological Sub-Discipline on the Example of Two Workplaces in Brno; The Interest in the Period of Late Socialism: a Historical or a Contemporary Ethnology? The Ways of Association of Town Inhabitants as a Subject-Matter of Brno Ethnology's ResearchPossibilities of Ethnological Research into the City of the 21st Century; The Practical Application of Folkloristics; Ethnology and Busking. The Present and Future Prospects of Research among Street Performers: on the Example of Motivation for Busking; Socio-Economic Migration in Central Europe after 2004. Possibilities of Ethnological Research; Emigration, Integration, Repatriation. On Academic Freedom in Research, and on Practical Applicability of Research Results for State Administration Interdisciplinarity in the Teaching of Ethnological Research Methods in Central EuropeThe Waiting Room: A Case Study of First Contact with Foreigners at the Department of Border and Alien Police in Bratislava; Aesthetics of the Human Body from the Interdisciplinary Perspective; Gender Theories in the Teaching of Ethnology: The "Nature vs Nurture" Debate; The Evolutionary Approach in Anthropology: A Study of the Body and Corporeality; Prospects for Medical Anthropology; Literature and Sources; Summary; Information about the Authors; Index