Folklorization as Diversification or Molding: Comparing Two “Traditional” Holidays

Authors

  • Mateja Habinc Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Zavetiška 5, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3986/Traditio2012410116

Keywords:

holidays, communism, Slovenia, folklorization // prazniki, socializem, Slovenija, folklorizacija

Abstract

The article presents transformations of St. Roch’s Day and carnival festivities in the last decade before and the first two decades after the Second World War in the Slovenian town of Brežice. The main focus is how the public celebration of these two “typical” holidays of the town was transformed, which primarily occurred as a consequence of changes in the broader sociopolitical situation. The author thus interprets them through the perspective of folklorization.

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Članek sledi spremembam v praznovanjih dveh, za manjše slovensko mesto Brežice »tipičnih« praznikov, Rokovega in pusta. Umešča jih v kontekst širših, družbeno-političnih dogodkov v prvih dveh desetletjih po drugi svetovni vojni in jih skuša interpretirati skozi perspektivo folklorizacije.

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Published

12.10.2012

How to Cite

Habinc, M. (2012). Folklorization as Diversification or Molding: Comparing Two “Traditional” Holidays. Traditiones, 41(1), 185–196. https://doi.org/10.3986/Traditio2012410116

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Co-designing Performances, Co-designing Heritages / So-oblikovanje uprizoritev, so-oblikovanje dediščin