Ladislav Lenovský: Naši vo svete – Slováci južne od hranice Slovenska I-III (Our Folk Abroad – Slovaks to the South of Slovakia’s Border I-III)

Abstract

At the beginning of my review essay I will try to give objective information in order to be able to be personal and subjective at its end. Prof. PhDr. Ladislav Lenovský, PhD. is an ethnologist and culturologist. He worked at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Constantine the Philosopher in Nitra and is currently a professor in the Department of Ethnology and non-European Studies of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava.

In his three-volume monograph synthesis, which we are formally presenting today to the public, “Our Folk Abroad – Slovaks to the South of Slovakia’s Border I-III”, the objects of his interest are Slovaks living abroad, specifi cally those who found their new home to the south of the borders of Slovakia. Colloquially, we most frequently refer to this area as the Low Land [Dolná zem in Slovak].