Discussion Section
The contributions reply to several theses contained in Blanka Soukupová´s study and reactions of the research fellows from the Institute of European Ethnology (both contributions were published in the previous issue of the Ethnographical Journal), First, Blanka Soukupová responds to some impulses of the research fellows from the Brno university institution, she refers to Antonín Václavík´s activities during the period of the First Czechoslovak Republic and Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Karel Altman´s text (Antonín Václavík - kolaborant? (K rozvoji českého národopisu v době tzv. protektorátu a jeho poválečným důsledkům [Antonín Václavík - a Collaborationist? (On the Development of Czech Ethnology in the Period of the So-Called Protectorate and its Post-War Consequences)]) is based on the analysis of ethnological and historical literature and the study of archival sources. Based on the collected information, the text tries to disprove Blanka Soukupová´s pronouncement about Antonín Václavík´s collaborationism in the first half of the 1940s. The closing contribution by Josef Jančář called Evropská etnologie a český národopis [The European Ethnology and Czech Ethnography] sets the use of the word “ethnography” into the period context of the first half of the 20th century. Using the example of the ethnographic area of Slovácko, it also explains how dangerous it is to simplify some historical facts. Although several groups of collaborationists actively used the symbolism of national costumes or relation to the region or Moravia, they are only one of the wide range of activities (in contrary, many of them featured resistance nature) developed by the inhabitants of the region during the period of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. and K tomuto článku je připojeno závěrečné shrnutí a klíčová slova k předchozí polemice o Antonínu Václavíkovi