The text by Jiřina Veselská reminds us of the proposed systematics of classification of ethnographic and folklore phenomena created in the 1960s by doc. Ludvík Kunz, the director of the Ethnographic institute of the Moravian Museum in Brno at that time, as a reaction to the questions connected with the presentation of research results and the formation of Brno ethnographic collection by means of the permanent exhibition Folk in five generations.
In Kunz´s systematic classification, an extraordinary comprehensiveness can be observed The contents of the whole typescript are divided into two parts:
I. Structure - it includes the listings of individual sets of information necessary, according to the author, for a comprehensive view of folk culture and tradition.
II. Realization - it develops in individual sub-topics what, in the author´s opinion, is necessary for the formulation of the contents of the discipline itself, the preparation of new experts, the formation of an image of the folk culture which would be as complete as possible. In the contents we can also find a description of the research methods which will lead to the expected result.
Since 1972, the District Homeland Museum (Okresní vlastivědné muzeum) for the district of Karviná with its seat in Český Těšín has been publishing Studies on Cieszyn Silesia. The new printed material offered publication opportunities for the professional community, especially for more comprehensive historical, linguistic, ethnographic studies which have not been suitable for the
non-fiction nature of the magazine Těšínsko (Cieszyn Silesia) due to their extent and scope. The thematic range of the ethnographically conceived contributions is very wide, ranging from memoirs to text editing, bibliography, texts thematically covering
material and non-material cultures. Essays of some homeland specialists and chroniclers are also beneficial. Since the first issues of the Studies on Cieszyn Silesia were designed as internal museum materials, awareness of their content is very low. Therefore, J. Veselská prepared a selective bibliography of ethnographically conceived papers in this publication. and Abstrakt (a klíčová slova) je uveden jako společný u následujícího článku s výběrovou bibliografií Studií o Těšínsku na str. 67
The Ethnographic Society has been working for more that one hundred years - since 1893. Its original name - Czechoslavonic Ethnographic Society - reflected the tendency of the period towards the Slavonic nations. The society played an important role in the successful presentation of ethnographic materials in the great Czechoslavonic Ethnographic Exhibition in 1895. These materials were aftewards stored in the Ethnographic Museum, opened in 1896 in Prague under the administration of L. Niederle. Since 1922 the collections have been in charge of the National Museum. - The Czechoslavonic Ethnographic Society has been publishing the (Czechoslavonic) Ethnographic Bulletin since 1897 and has been operating its own library. - Till the early 1960 the Czechoslavonic Ethnographic Society was the only voluntary organization in the field of ethnography and folklore studies. In 1956 its name was changed to Czechoslovak Ethnographic Society., Moreover, the other society, which associated especially professional ethnographers, was founded in 1958 under the name Society of Czechoslovak Ethnographers of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. In 1962 both societies merged into the Czechoslovac Ethnographic Society of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. The subjectivity of the Society and its financial resources were reduced, but both its members and correspondents continued in their work and the Buleltin was published regularly. - Since 1993 (after the split of Czechoslovakia) the Society is called Ethnographic Society. New statutes of the organization were accepted in 1999. The supreme executive body of the Society is formed by the general assembly, the central committee has nine members. The society publishes the Ethnographic Bulletin and Newsletter of the Ethnographic Socety. It also organizes scientific conferences and it evaluates the most outstanding events in the field. It financially supports research activities (even of students). The society has 242 members and 185 correspondents., and Anglický abstrakt s šifrrou (št) uveden na str. 192-13.