Ethnology, Rituals, Habits

Lectures focus on customs and habits, holidays, festivals and generally on past as well as contemporary ritual practices in Slovenia. They offer insight into an already collected material, through which selected aspects of the past as well as contemporary social culture and ways of life are outlined. Material about the past offers an opportunity of an insight, comparison and understanding of contemporary holidays and various ritual practices in Slovenia. The lectures therefore focus also on the applied aspects of ethnological and cultural anthropological work, while generally the presented material and its interpretation is put in the historical and social context of ethnology and cultural anthropology in Slovenia and the study of ritual practices in general.
At the practicum students are supposed to use the knowledge from the lectures and contribute an in-depth analysis of selected case-studies of contemporary ritual practices in Slovenia. They collect material, analyse it and think about possible ways of its interpretation.

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