The systematic and interdisciplinary study of relations between technology and culture is at the core of one project at the Karlsruher Institute of Technology (KIT). This text introduces the institutional background of this project as well as some early ac-tivities and first results. After that it focuses on the theoretical foundations for the concepts of technology and culture being used in this project. Based on these thoughts the correlation between technology and culture is being illustrated and some examples of its interdependencies are given. Finally some concluding theses are presented. and Gerhard Banse, Robert Hauser.
Since 1951, the Silesian Land Museum in Opava has been publishing its own journal. Ethnographic studies have been part of the journal’s focus from the very beginning. The studies cover museum collections in the territory of Silesia and also field documentation and research carried out in Silesia by distinguished Czechoslovak ethnographers (Drahomíra Stránská, Zdena Vachová, Josef Vařeka, etc.). A bibliography of these contributions from the years 1951-2001 was made up by Eva Ševčíková. All in all, 125 articles and studies were included. They cover ethnography but also related disciplines which touch folk culture or widen our knowledge of its historical forms. These articles were supplemented by 73 selected reviews devoted mostly to regional literature.