Personalia

Title:

Personalia

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The ‘Personalia’ chapter profiles prominent personalities of Czech ethnography who celebrate important jubilees this year. PhDr. Zdena Vachová played an important role in the creation of ethnographical collections of the Silesian Land Museum in Opava; she took part in the field documentation of traditional culture. Apart from focusing on the ethnographical boundary between Moravia and Silesia, she specialised in paintings on glass. In 2007 PhDr. Josef Vařeka, DrSc. celebrated his 80th birthday. He is one of the prominent specialists in the field of traditional architecture and housing, respected in his home country as well as abroad. of recent years’ activities his work on the ethnographical encyclopaedia, the Ethnographical Atlas of Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia, and the second edition of the Folk Architecture Encyclopaedia, should be mentioned. In the 1950s and 1960s he conducted research in Krušnohoří, in the flooded areas of Orlík and Morávka and in Slovenské Javorníky. He also held the post of research secretary and deputy chairman in the Ethnographical Society. The work of PhDr. Jitka Noušová is connected to Ostrava Museum where she worked as a director for a quarter of a century., During this period she managed to profile the museum and participate in field researches (e.g. on workers’ colonies). Her own research subjects included the interior as well as folk art. the Brno National Heritage office’s worker of many years standing, PhDr. Věra Kovářů, focuses her professional interest not only on Moravian folk architecture but also on other manifestations of traditional culture – primarily traditional clothing. She also co-operates with folk dance groups and devises choreographies for them. PhDr. Eva Davidová, who has focused on Roma culture and history all her life, is a leading personality of Czech Roma studies. She carried out her first field researches in Slovakian Roma settlements in the 1950s and since then she has regularly visited them and recorded material and non-material manifestations of their culture (through photographical, video and musical records). From 1991 she was one of the leading personalities of the Museum of Romani Culture in Brno. Doc. PhDr. Eva Romana Melmuková-Šašecí became involved in ethnography when, for political reasons, she was forbidden to work as an evangelical priest. She studied ethnography and folkloristics extramurally at Charles University in Prague and took part in a survey of vernacular settlements in Vysočina., Her studies about pre-toleration time and the Patent of toleration are very valuable. Luděk Štěpán is a highly regarded expert on technical buildings in the Czech Republic as well as abroad. As a graduate in building engineering, in the 1960s he started to collaborate with preservationists from eastern Bohemia and documented traditional architecture In the Chrudim region. He is a co-founder of the Open-Air Museum Veselý Kopec and since 1981 worked as its head. Two fields have been interconnected in PhDr. Ludvík Skružný’s work - ethnography and archaeology; he concentrate predominantly on comparative studies. His published essays deal with traditional pottery, iconography and building traditions. Doc. PhDr. Ludmila Sochorová, Csc. gives lectures at the Institute of Ethnology at Charles University in Prague. One of her fields of study is spiritual culture. In the 1980s she was progressively dealing with the historical anthropology of women, while the original subjects of her academic interest are also theatrology and literary science. PhDr. Jaroslava Krupková, CSc. has been working at the Institute of Ethnology at Charles University in Prague for more than two decades. She took part in the systemisation of the Ethnographical Society’s collections. At the moment she is concerned with traditional visual arts and crafts, customs and rites., and Tento abstrakt je společný pro všech 16 článků uvedených v oddílu Personalia

Language:

Czech

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Coverage:

138-138

Source:

Národopisný věstník | 2007 Volume:24 (66) | Number:1

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