Hundert Jahre die Zeitschrift “Český lid“

Abstract

History of Slavic Ethnology.

By 1914, a circle of collaborators had been formed and many folk collectors were given the opportunity to publish. The content of Český Ľud included reports on folk life, opinions and ideas, reprints of folklore texts, explanations of embroidery, costumes, cottages, folk food, superstitions and other phenomena.

In the period 1924-1932, materials appeared on Subcarpathian Ruthenia, on front-line folklore, on idiosyncrasies and other types of folklorism, such as festivals and performances by ensembles. The 25th volume (1925) contained an anniversary commemoration and a positive reaction to the application of the sociological method in ethnography.

Since 1951, after a deviation, the magazine has returned to ethnography, and the Institute for Ethnography and Folkloristics of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences has been established. In parallel with negative efforts, high-quality research is being carried out (studies on Czech minorities in Romania, on the settlement of the borderlands and its ethnographic aspects, materials on research on the working class and industrial areas, ...).

After the Second World War, successes, fluctuations and ambiguities alternate.

The new editorial board (1990) wants to return to the basic ideas of the magazine.