The review section brings an evaluation of four books published in 2007. Alena Jeřábková wrote a review of a book by Marie Brandstettrová Clothing of the Rožnov Citizens. Reading about Rožnov Traditional Costume (published by the Wallachian Open-Air Museum in Rožnov pod Radhoštěm, in 2007). The book explores the way of clothing in the small town of Rožnov where rural and urban environments used to meet in the past. Jana Nosková analyzed a publication by Martina Pavlicová Traditional Culture and Its Historical and Social Reflections (Micro-Social Probes) published by the department of European ethnology, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk university, Brno, in 2007). The book consists of three parts: theoretical introductory chapter and two case studies - first of them devoted to the personality of a musician Josef Slezák from Břestek, the second one dealing with the ride of kings in the small town of Hluk. The first chapter brings interesting observations concerning historical development of ethnology as a scholarly discipline, primarily in connection with the relationship between its object of study and other disciplines such as cultural and social anthropology., The National institute for traditional culture in Strážnice released a representative publication by Martin Šimša Bearers of the Folk Craft Tradition I. by the end of the year 2007. The aim of the publication was to introduce personalities of handcraftsmen awarded by the Minister of Culture between the years 2001-2007. The book brings a well arranged overview of personalities awarded, and at the same time it informs about the process of awarding the title Bearer of the Folk Craft Tradition. Images depicting assortment, craftsmen and close-ups of their work also form a significant part of the book. Deals with Volyn Czechs and their repatriation to Czechoslovakia in her book Repatriation and Settlement of Volyn Czechs in Interpretations of Participants and Scholarly Literature (published by the department of European ethnology, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk
university, Brno, in 2007). She paid special attention to processes of domiciliation, adaptation and integration of Volyn Czechs in the new country. The work is primarily built on the interesting use of biographical and oral history methods which enabled the author to exploit interesting pieces of information and interpretative framework of historical events., and Tento abstrakt je společný pro 4 recenze uvedené v oddílu Knihy