Tapintható-e a múlt?
A comprehensive review on F. R. Ankersmit's A történelmi tapasztalat (Historical Experience).
More...We kindly inform you that, as long as the subject affiliation of our 300.000+ articles is in progress, you might get unsufficient or no results on your third level or second level search. In this case, please broaden your search criteria.
A comprehensive review on F. R. Ankersmit's A történelmi tapasztalat (Historical Experience).
More...
A comprehensive review on Ferenc Erős' Kultuszok a pszichoanalízis történetében. Egy Ferenczi-monográfia vázlata (Cults in the History of Psychoanalysis. Outlines of a Monograph on Sándor Ferenczi).
More...
The presentation and interpretation of handcrafts and trades are some of the most complex and challenging tasks in the open air museums operations. At the same time, considering the hypertextual characteristics of crafts, the integrative protection and holistic approach in representation are profound. Historical, social, cultural and economic backgrounds of handcrafts, not just its tools and products, even know-how, provoke traditional postulates of museums. Acctualy they provoke museum`s structure and politics almost to the point of complete re-defining. This change is a consequence of accepting contemporary museological thoughts embodied in new types of museums – economuseums. The main goal of this paper is percieving the possabilities of interaction and permeate between living craft heritage and space/simulacra/ mission of scansens, finaly real life itself and open air museums.
More...
World financial crisis can be viewed as bringing about insights into some characteristics of our social, political and economic systems. The case of migrant construction workers from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia working in Slovenia, fired in the name of the financial crisis, undoubtedly calls attention to the existence of systemic discrimination which is based on nationality.
More...
A logo is most commonly observed as an emblem with intent to be widely recognised as a permanent symbol, or an icon, additionally permitting correlative meanings within a designative context. In the particular example of the Glossary of Serbian culture logo the opportunities of elements of design (coded iconic message, non-coded iconic message and linguistic message) have been analysed with intention to ascertain communication with future users of the Index conveying the desired message not only about specificities of Serbian culture but also its complexity and unifying nature with the global culture. A logo is observed as a multi-parametric code transcending form a concept of artistic design to a “rhetoric figure” in context of presentation and promotion of Serbian culture. While the art of designing, as a discipline, has the objective of artistic modulation, as well as an aesthetic effect, it also, in this case, represents the form of the governmental strategy in communication with others and formation of the cultural identity of its citizens.
More...
Traditionally, museums have been visual – ‘Do Not Touch’ – spaces. However, interactive and multisensory media are increasingly being used to help pursue wider democratic goals of appealing to new and more diverse audiences. This essay examines how one museum, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow (Scotland), has sought to reconfigure its sensory regimes of display. It discusses the incorporation of multiple sensory logics and queries whether one potential result of such mixings is a kind of sensory disorientation.
More...
Article focuses on politically relevant aspects of practices of remembering socialism in post-Yugoslav context and offers an approach to memory that involves considering not only what is remembered and how, but also what are the implications of these remembrances, i.e. what is the potential of memory to support (or de-legitimize) political causes and enhance (or impede) civic participation. Looking at the example of Lepa Brena's public persona and her concerts during 2009, it examines the active usage of the Yugoslav past and highlights the significant capacity of music in that process. Through the lenses of the so-called personalized historical narrativity, the attention is given to the expression, shape and constraint of emotions associated with Yugoslav popular music and its social, cultural and political consequences within the post-Yugoslav societies.
More...
World financial crisis can be viewed as bringing about insights into some characteristics of our social, political and economic systems. The case of migrant construction workers from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia working in Slovenia, fired in the name of the financial crisis, undoubtedly calls attention to the existence of systemic discrimination which is based on nationality.
More...
The article provides an overview of the interpretation of the "freedom" concept in Russian philosophy, history and philology. The peculiarities of the understanding of this concept in the poetry of Russian rock based on a study of contextual semantics of the concept "freedom", a comparative analysis with data dictionaries, and psycholinguistic experiments.
More...
Bibliography of works on traditional culture, folklore, and popular culture is a selective bibliography that includes papers from the 25 issues of the Collection of Papers of Ethnographic Institute SAS / SASA published from 1950 to 2008, which completely or partially refer to mentioned topics. It was done de visu, following the international standard for the description of components of serial publications: ISBD (CM) - the short description. It contains 171 bibliographic items, classified in 19 thematic sections.
More...
The paper discusses the representation of pregnancy in the customs and beliefs of a region in Serbia known as Rađevina. The research was aimed at recording and preserving the customs and lexis regarding pregnancy in this part of Serbia. We obtained the lexis through topicguided conversations with the informants. The article is divided into several sections: on pregnancy before pregnancy, prohibitions during pregnancy and consequences if they are not observed, revealing the baby's gender, conlusion and glossary. Rađevina used to have a system of regulations that the pregnant woman had to adhere to. Special attention was paid to the behaviour of the pregnant woman herself. It was in larger part regulated by means of numerous prohibitions and limitations. Most of those prohibitions were based on the assumption of a magical relation of the future mother and the foetus in her womb. It is interesting to note that some prohibitions were observed before pregnancy itself, during the wedding ritual. In this period, the community tended to facilitate the bride's conception of a fair, healthy male child. During pregnancy itself the pregnant woman used certain objects to protect herself from evil and negative influences of her surroundings. The largest number of prohibitions during pregnancy were implemented so that a healthy, but also fair child should be born. Apart from that, the prohibitions were intended to influence the child's longevity. The section on pregnancy before pregnancy lists the techniques applied in the wedding ritual which influenced the bride's fertility with imitative magic. We also shed some light on the traditional revealing of the future child's gender, and the paper is ends with a glossary.
More...
In order to provide a grounded argument, the present paper asks the following questions. Why do States acquire nuclear weapons? Why do finally States tend to prevent this acquisition? What does the use of force imply? This logical structure adduces the argument sustaining the avoidance of the use of force as a viable preventive tool. It concentrates exclusively on States instituting a threat and on the force-led circumventive strategies’ implications used by non-threatening States to prevent acquisition. Through first, stressing the security model it emphasise the security-stability reasons for which countries are willing to acquire the nuclear weapon. However, secondly it punctuates the tangible side effects faced by this model. Therefore, it highlights the move towards the vicious-circle logic. Owing this vicious-circle logic, prevention must be advocated. Nonetheless, the third part evidences, via the building of my inferential model (Figure 1, p.8), the fact that any prevention based on the use of force must be refrained on account of its consequences - it nourishes the vicious-circle logic.
More...
After sixteen months in power, the Democrat administration of Barack Obama came up with an ambitious document meant to position the President’s thinking on major challenges and objectives for Americans both at home and abroad. The new strategy for national security was released at a time when “America is hardened by wars and inspired by servicemen and women who fight them.” In the words of the President “[America] is disciplined by a devastating economic crisis, and determined to see that its legacy is a new foundation for prosperity; and we are bound by a creed that has guided us at home, and served as a beacon to the world”, as the President himself stated.
More...
Based on the analysis of public speeches of politicians and political commentators, the author managed to distinguish the major characteristics of the language of propaganda in the 2nd Polish Republic. Pragmatic aspects of language usage such as: historic-social and cultural conditions, multidirectional model of political communication, publicized behavioral patterns in politics as well as subjected to various ideologies systems of values and stereotypes together with prejudices, but also idiolects of famous politicians and sharp remarks of political journalists, had a great impact on emotional character and variety of the language. The process of language democratization occurred in the press, as such means of expression were used which might be easily understood by mass recipient. The language created that way was ideologically varied, full of negative emotions, reflecting the fierce struggle for power.
More...
The subject of the analysis presented in the article is the political discourse in the period of the Polish Republic of Gentry (16-18th c.). The author argues that in the centre of the contemporary debates, there were always values related to two main notions ingrained in the consciousness of the citizens of the Polish-Lithuanian Republic: freedom and law. These central notions organize the "field of discourse" and reveal the area of knowledge which is a characteristic indicator of the type and level of the culture (in this case political and civic one) prevailing in a particular time and place. The discourse concerning law and freedom proceeded with a changeable intensity throughout the whole period of the republic's existence and also after its downfall at the end of the 18th century. It reflects the significant attitude of citizens: from their attachment to legalization (rule of law) and initiative for the common interest to the protection of personal and political privileges of the ruling class, i.e. "golden freedom" of the gentry. Despite the changeable historical determinants, the discourse, as proved by the author, has maintained its relevance in the most crucial dilemmas appearing as subjects of disputes in the democratic society.
More...
The year 1989 was in Poland and many European countries, which were in the orbit of soviet influence, the beginning of revolutionary changes: political, economic, social and cultural ones. These changes also influenced Polish language, which has changed radically for the last 20 years. Among political discourses, the greatest changes concerned the language of politics. Nowadays, it is a diversified way of talking about public affairs, a spectrum which joins different registers and styles. The important reason for its variety is the instability of the Polish political scene, the abundance of political parties, constantly forming new parliamentary groupings and governmental coalition, and the disappearance of others. In the language of the contemporary politics, the lexis is particularly extensive and includes thousands of words referring to public life and the Poles. The major point in the article is the claim that the language of contemporary politics is getting poorer, looses its elegance and becomes more and more primitive. The author seeks the reason for its pauperization in the trends of contemporary culture. He shows the main features of the phenomenon: the turn towards commonness and informality, emotionality of expressions, hermetic vision of the world, impossibility of a dialogue increase of populist attitudes.
More...
The problem analysis has been based on the sociopolitical journalism at the turn of the century with a special consideration of texts written before the Polish access to EU. A reference to research concerning changes of Polish national identity due to European integration has also been made. National identity and European identity are not contradictory but ought to be considered as conjunctive. The lexeme Europe and its functioning in the text has been analyzed. Three groups of meanings are applied to it currently: Europe is a continent, Europe is a culture community, Europe is the European Union. Thus, the modifications of the meaning of an adjective European has been analyzed. It recalls the following connotations: better, perfect, more efficient. This is due to recognition of Western cultural superiority. Key words: Europe, the European, identity, nationality.
More...