The concept of tradition and the modes of scholarship in Slovak ethnology

Abstract

Tradition is one of the key concepts and subjects of ethnological and anthropological research, but it is also a frequent topic of public discourse. The aim of this study is to contribute to the debates on tradition and the functioning of human memory. The author focuses on the approach to the concept of tradition in Slovak ethnology and folkloristics in the period of the second half of the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty-first century and refers to the conception of tradition in works of cognitive anthropologists, in particular Pascal Boyer.