The Role of Personality in the Transmission of Cultural Forms. An Example of the Bearer of Regional Traditions in Central Moravia (the Ethnographic Area of Haná)

• Published in: Glasnik Etnografskog instituta Vol. LXV; no. 2; pp. 273 - 288
• Main Author: Válka, Miroslav
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Етнографски институт САНУ 2017; Institute of Ethnography SANU
• Subjects: 19th Century; Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology; Customs / Folklore; Geography, Regional studies; Museology Heritage Studies; Nationalism Studies; Recent History (1900 till today); intangible cultural heritage; Czech Republic; Marie Pachtová; Haná region

The ethnographic area of Haná in Central Moravia (Czech Republic) has been among distinctive ethnographic regions since the 16th century. Even though traditional regional forms had gradually disappeared as a consequence of the modernization of village life, these returned alongside new functions in...