Objectives and competences
Students will be introduced to forms and basics of everyday life in Slovenia. They will get to know the basic home and foreign comparative literature on this particular topic, individual researches will be introduced. Main goal of the subject is to present the complex cultures, political, social and historical factors, that were inviolved in shaping everyday life. Students will gain the ability of critique of actual everyday events with the help of ethnological methods. They will gain knowledge of basic methodological approaches of ethnographic research on present topic (use of archive and written sources, i.e. diaries, letters, newspapers, fieldwork, lifestories, participant observation)
Content (Syllabus outline)
Subject handles the phenomena of everyday life in Slovenia in comparison to Europe, especially from 19. cent until today. Everyday life is taken as an area of subjective and objective construct of social reality with special factors: space, time and social group. The subject includes ethnological handling of different areas of everyday life: residence culture and architecture (dwelling space, equipment and function, major types of buildings in Slovenia, modern dwelling architecture), nutrition culture (food as social activity and cultural good, invoations in nutrition, regional and social characteristics of nutrition, nutrition outside of home), clothing culture (outfit as a form of nonverbal communication, fashion), family life (family construction, types and relationships), customs, rituales, calendar and personal celebrations opposite to everyday life.
Within the subject there is also epistemology and methodology of ethnological research of everyday life.
Learning and teaching methods
Frontal
Work in small groups
Individual work
Working methods
Explanation
Discussion/debate
Work on the text
Case study
Intended learning outcomes - knowledge and understanding
understanding of chronology, social and spatial conditionality of phenomena in everyday life in Slovenia
understanding of basic conception in ethnology of everyday life
understanding of everyday life as an area of subjective an objective construct of social reality
Intended learning outcomes - transferable/key skills and other attributes
Ability to analyse, understande and critically evaluate modern forms of everyday life
Readings
1. Baš, Angelos (1986): Oblačilna kultura na Slovenskem v Prešernovem času. Ljubljana. Cankarjeva založba.
2. Destovnik, Irena (2002): Moč šibkih. Ženske v času kmečkega gospodarjenja. Klagenfurt (Celovec). Drava.
3. Dolžan Eržen, Tatjana idr. (2014): Interpretacije dediščine. Ljubljana: Slovensko etnološko društvo.
4. Ferlež, Jerneja (2001): Mariborska dvorišča. Maribor. Mladinski kulturni center.
5. Godina Golija, Maja (2006): Prehranski pojmovnik za mlade. Maribor. Aristej.
6. Kropej Telban, Monika in Slavec Gradišnik, Ingrid (ur.) (2016): Avstro-ogrska monarhija v besedi in podobi: Slovenci 1. Ljubljana. Založba ZRC.
7. Kuret, Niko (1989): Praznično leto Slovencev 1-2. Ljubljana. Družina.
Dopolnilna:
1. Elias, Norbert (2000): O procesu civiliziranja. Ljubljana. Založba/cf.
2. Keršič, Irena (1991) Oris stanovanjske kulture slovenskega kmečkega prebivalstva v 19. stoletju. Slovenski etnograf 33-34 (1988-1990): 329-389.
3. Makarovič, Gorazd (1991) Prehrana v 19. stoletju na Slovenskem. Slovenski etnograf 33-34/1988-1990: 127-207.
4. Malcolm, Barnard (2005): Moda kot sporazumevanje. Ljubljana: Sophia.
5. Slovenski etnološki leksikon (ur. A. Baš idr.) (2004):Ljubljana. Mladinska knjiga.
Prerequisits
An introductory course/no special conditions are requested.
