Pro šedesátá léta dvacátého století v Československu bylo mimo jiné příznačné postupné uvolňování pravidel v oblasti zahraničních vztahů, a to i vůči zemím tzv. kapitalistického tábora. Okupace Československa vojsky států Varšavské smlouvy v srpnu 1968 znamenala konec tohoto trendu a začátek vlny odchodů československých občanů, mezi nimiž nescházeli ani někteří významní pracovníci Československé akademie věd (ČSAV), do emigrace. Tato edice, která zpřístupňuje dokumenty ilustrující tři konkrétní lidské osudy, se soustředí na události let 1968-1970 a doplňuje problematiku zahraničních vztahů ČSAV v daném období o otázku dlouhodobých zahraničních pobytů zaměstnanců ČSAV jako faktoru, který v souvislosti se srpnovými událostmi a následným vývojem hrál významnou roli při rozhodování akademických pracovníků o odchodu do emigrace. and The gradual relaxation of rules on foreign relations was inter alia characteristic of 1960s Czechoslovakia even in relation to capitalist bloc countries. The occupation of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact state troops in August 1968 marked the end of that trend and the beginning of a wave of departures of Czechoslovak citizens, including some prominent CSAS staff members. This series, which presents documents illustrating three individual stories, focuses on events between 1968 and 1970 and adds the issue of long-term foreign stays of CSAS staff members to the issues surrounding CSAS foreign relations during this period as a factor which in the context of the August 1968 events and subsequent developments played a significant role in the decision-making of academic staff regarding emigation. (Translated by Melvyn Clarke.)
The changes in funeral practices in Czech society which occured during the 20th century were more significant than those that took place during the whole of the second millenium. Traditional Roman Catholic Christian funerals which were performed at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries are described as a starting point from which the focus moves to a study of the major changes which took place from then onwards.
The wedding, or its socio-cultural equivalent, was considered to be the most important social event in all human societies of all time. In traditional European society, everything that related to the creation of a permanent union between a man and a woman in the institution of marriage was endowed with a sacred character and was subject to public scrutiny. The study aims to provide a commented description and to interpret the wedding merriment recorded in the first half of 1990 in Šumice, one of the Czech villages in the Romanian Banat. The first part explains the issue of the ethnic enclave as a subject of ethnological study. It defines the peculiarities of Šumice in the context of the Czech Banat, and it gives an overview of the demographic development of the village. The wedding ritual (veselka) in Šumice is presented from an ethnographic-historical perspective first. The first part of the study was published in the previous, first, issue of Ethnographic Journal 2022.
The wedding, or its socio-cultural equivalent, was considered to be the most important social event in all human societies of all time. In traditional European society, everything that related to the creation of a permanent union between a man and a woman in the institution of marriage was endowed with a sacred character and was subject to public scrutiny. The study aims to provide a commented description and to interpret the wedding merriment recorded in the first half of 1990 in Šumice, one of the Czech villages in the Romanian Banat. The first part explains the issue of the ethnic enclave as a subject of ethnological study. It defines the peculiarities of Šumice in the context of the Czech Banat, and it gives an overview of the demographic development of the village. The wedding ritual (veselka) in Šumice is presented from an ethnographic-historical perspective first. The second part of the study will be published in the next, second, issue of the Ethnographic Journal 2022.