VÝSKUM OBDOBIA SOCIALIZMU A MESTA V SLOVENSKEJ ETNOLÓGII

The socialist period is one of the current and developing areas of research in ethnology. The study deals with ethnological research of the socialist period, focusing on the urban environment. An introductory overview examines research between 1948 and 1989 and the present research (post-1989), with an emphasis on urban localities. In the next section, it considers some of the key issues that arise in relation to ethnology's approach to this period. The first of these is whether ethnological research on the past, and thus on socialism, should focus on the reconstruction of a way of life or on its representations. Another is whether we can speak of a specifically socialist way of life, socialist culture and especially how this applies in urban settings.