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Etnolog 26 (2016)
PREFACE
Nena Židov, Andrej Dular
In 2016, migrations in cultural landscapes were ICOM’s central theme and one
of the principal interpretative orientations of the SEM’s programme; unfortunately, we
also witnessed mass migrations of people in 2015/16. The editorial board therefore
decided to have the scientific articles in this year’s volume focus on ethnological
and anthropological views of the mobility of people and cultural elements, and the
changeability of cultural landscapes. In the section entitled Cultural landscapes:
shifts, exchanges, and interlacements, the authors write about the different reasons
causing the migrations of people, material as well as intangible cultural elements in
the past and present, and how these migrations are reflected in changing cultural
landscapes. They mostly deal with the Slovene territory and the people living there,
migrating to it, or emigrating from it. Mirjam Milhar~i~ Hladnik addresses The influence
of contacts and the mixing of cultures on the cultural landscape from the perspective of
migration; Da{a Koprivec features Personal narratives of lives in Egypt and at home.
The central theme of Rebeka and Drago Kunej’s article is A folklore ensemble in the
diaspora, while German immigrants in Maribor are addressed by Maja Godina Golija.
Katalin Munda Hirnök writes about The life of the Slovene post-war deportees from
Porabje after the closure of the labour camps.
Nena @idov presents An outline of the first years of New Year’s tree celebrations
in Slovenia, which started to spread in Slovenia after the Second World War, following
the Soviet Union’s example. This is followed by two articles dealing with the transfer,
appropriation, and meaning of material cultural elements. [pela Ledinek Lozej
answers the question A Frankfurt or a Swedish kitchen? and Veronika Zavratnik writes
about shoes as part of the material culture in Allstars endured a little longer.
In his article This route feels like home to me, Bla` Baji~ presents the routes
taken by joggers in Ljubljana as links between the city and nature. Gorazd Makarovi~
introduces us to a “fictional” cultural landscape in his article Notions in Slovenia of
the mysterious places outcast disease demons go to.
As usual, Museum News features contents focusing on museum issues and the
operation of the Slovene Ethnographic Museum in the past year.
The section starts with Web accessibility: the website of the Slovene Ethnographic
Museum, which presents novelties and advantages in informing the public and in
particular vulnerable groups of the population on the activities of the SEM on the
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Internet. The second article, The Nagli~ brush trade in [marca near Kamnik, offers
insight into an ethnologically poorly researched craft, which produced various brushes
and whisk brooms in Slovenia.
The section Exhibitions presents in detail four occasional exhibitions (Fashion
in Motion, From lace to embroidery, Fran Vesel, a chronicler of life in the early 20th
century, and
A pilgrimage to Sveti Vi{arji: a picturelogue by Peter Nagli~ from 1933), staged
by the museum’s staff at the SEM and as guest exhibitions in Italy in 2015.
The Reports following this section present the activities of the SEM in 2015 in
detail. The section New Acquisitions contains information on the new acquisitions
in three departments – crafts (turned products), dressing culture (lace), and spiritual
culture (the Carnival figure Rusa).
The Reports section is completed by three articles: Report on the activities
of the Coordinator of the living heritage in 2015, followed by The response of the
Slovene Ethnographic Museum to the current migration trends, which deals with the
developments on the so-called Balkan migration route in 2016. The section ends with
an article, entitled Films in ethnographic exhibitions, which also reflects on issues that
are often discussed at international conferences on ethnographic film.
A permanent feature of Museum News is the chapter The SEM in the past year,
which as usual contains two surveys: Exhibitions at the SEM in 2015 and Events at the
SEM in 2015. Both contain detailed reports on the very varied activities staged at the
museum throughout the year.
The section The SEM’s Publications was introduced two years ago and features
brief information on the publications published by the SEM as part of its annual work
programme. Two publications refer to occasional exhibitions, two to presentations of
intangible (living) cultural heritage, and two to the accessibility of the cultural heritage
to vulnerable groups.
Etnolog pays homage to the SEM’s collaborators who are no longer with us. In
this volume to Dr. Da{a Koprivec, curator of the Department for Slovene emigrants,
the Slovene ethnic minorities in the neighbouring countries, and foreign ethnic groups
living in Slovenia, who died prematurely in 2015. Etnolog also strives to at least
occasionally pay tribute to its former staff members, who continue to be professionally
active, on the occasion of their anniversaries.
In the present volume, the section Book Reviews is rather modest, but it is
important that it remains a constant feature of Etnolog; the section Museum News will
have a new editor and promises to be more varied and richer in content in the next
volume.
The present volume concludes with the 25-year bibliography of Etnolog (from
1991, when the journal Slovenski etnograf was renamed Etnolog, to 2015), compiled
by the museum’s librarian Mojca Ra~i~. Its publication pays tribute to a quarter
century of continuous publication of the new series of Etnolog, the oldest professional
and scientific journal on ethnology and museums in Slovenia; incidentally, Etnolog’s
anniversary coincides with the anniversary of the birth of Slovenia as a sovereign state.
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