Ethnological research of the city Brno

Stability and metamorphosis of Moravian metropolis

Jana, Pospišilova

Glasnik Etnografskog instituta SANU

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http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/Article.aspx?ID=0350-08611002080P

2010-2020/03/08/17:30:49

The contribution aims to describe development of the ethnological research of the City Brno as the part of Czech - and former Czechoslovak - urban ethnology. Shortened it deals with the beginnings of research in 50ies of the 20th century, with methods and results of research and, in more details, it describes interdisciplinary projects after 1989. In recent decades there were realised such important projects like Das multikulturelle Brünn an der Schwelle zum EU-Beitritt (Multicultural Brno entering European Union), or Memory of the town, and interdisciplinary project based on sociological and geographical quantitative analysis Socio-Spatial Consequences of Demographic Change for East Central European Cities where ethnology played the role of science based on qualitative analysis and methods. The main part of contribution defines the cultural identity of Brno´ citizens and interethnical relations, as well, as the result of repetitive field research and from the point of view of ethnology.

folk culture, Brno, City, Czech Republic, ethnic relations, inner City, urban ethnology