Žilvytis Šaknys
Biographic Data
| ID | 392026 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Žilvytis Šaknys |
| GIVEN NAMES | Žilvytis |
| FAMILY NAME | Šaknys |
| SIGNATURE | ŠAKNYS Ž |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lithuanian Institute of History |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2594-2155 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Po devyniolikos metų. Žvilgsnis į Lenkijos lietuvių jaunimo etninio ir pilietinio tapatumo kaitą
Straipsnis paremtas 2005 ir 2024 metais Punsko apylinkėse atliktų lauko tyrimų duomenimis. Analizuojant ta pačia metodika Punsko licėjuje surinktus duomenis, siekiama nustatyti jaunų Lenkijos lietuvių etninio ir pilietinio tapatumo sąveikos kaitą ir atsakyti į klausimą, ar šiam procesui turėjo įtakos sparčiai kintančios skaitmeninių komunikacijos priemonių galimybės ir jų nulemta socialinės erdvės plėtra. Palyginus dviejų tyrimų duomenis, esminių…
An Ethnologist in Two Historical Epochs: Irena Regina Merkienė
In the article, which aims to reveal the scientific life path of ethnologist Irena Regina Merkienė, I set the following tasks: 1. reveal the features of the institutionalisation of ethnology in Lithuania as compared to neighbouring countries; 2. describe ethnologist Merkienė’s research during the Soviet period; and 3. analyse Merkienė’s ethnological research after Lithuania regained independence. The conclusions obtained are that the period of Li…
Lithuanian ethnologist Petras Kalnius - 75
Petras Kalnius participated in ethnographic expeditions in almost all districts of Lithuania, also in the Punsk-Seinai region in Poland. In the latter, as in many areas of Lithuania, he led expeditionary groups. From the beginning of his work at the institute, he was directed to urban ethnographic research
Įvertinant etnologijos šaltinius: Vilniaus krašto lietuvių kalendorinės šventės jaunimo spaudos ir lauko tyrimų požiūriu
Following up on my research into youth leisure published in the last issue of Lithuanian Ethnology, in this article I compare my personal field research carried out from 1988 to 2012 and publications in the press from 1926 to 1939, analysing the calendar feasts celebrated by Lithuanians in the Vilnius region. Based on the same methodology, the study revealed that the value of leisure and festivals as a source of ethnology differs in the periodica…
Netekome Profesorės Irenos Reginos Merkienės (1937–2024)
Vilniaus krašto lietuvių jaunimo laisvalaikio atvejis (1920–1939): Spaudos Publikacijų Ir Etnografinių Lauko Tyrimų Dermė
In this article, using publications from the Jaunimo draugas magazine published in Vilnius and personal field research material, I seek to compare ethnographic material collected during field research and published ethnographic material and how these harmonise to reveal the particularities of youth leisure time in the historic Vilnius Region (1920–1939). After conducting a comparative analysis, it could be concluded that press publications cannot…
Easter Festivities During the Pandemic: Social and Cultural Aspects
In this paper, I pursued the goal to reveal the attitude of the Lithuanians living in their home country and in neighbouring ones towards holidays celebrated under the conditions of a radical lifestyle change. The study is based on the questionnaires completed by 48 respondents during two weeks after Easter 2020 that was celebrated under the quarantine restrictions. To achieve this goal and compare Easter celebrations in 2019 and 2020, I set up t…
Emily Lyle’s Jubilee
On December 19, Dr Emily Lyle, Honorary Fellow at the Department of Celtic and Scottish Studies, in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, University of Edinburgh, celebrated her ninetieth birthday. Emily is a prominent folklorist, a researcher of ritual calendars, myths, astronomy, and cosmology, a semiotician and a typologist, a connoisseur of Scottish folklore and culture, just to mention a few of her fields of interest. To honour …
National and Confessional Features of Festivals and Holidays: Structure of the Ritual Year in Modern Lithuania and Bulgaria
The article aims to answer the question of whether different confessions and nationalities are an important factor in structuring a nation’s ritual year. People’s attitude towards state holidays (non-work days) is analysed based on research carried out by the author in 2012-2019 in Sofia (Bulgaria), Vilnius (Lithuania) and the towns and villages of Vilnius County. The study revealed that citizens of both states hold similar of state holidays. Mor…
Lithuanian Ethnologist Angelė Vyšniauskaitė 100
Angel Vyniauskait (15.05
Four Glances at the Feast of the Assumption: The Holiday through Space and Time
In my article, I attempt to track the ritual year in different social and cultural settings. The Feast of the Assumption was chosen for this research as a traditional religious holiday in Lithuania. Various chronological periods and localities of the feast are under investigation: celebrations in the 19th to the first half of the 20th centuries; the Assumption as a Lithuanian national holiday in 1929 in Kaunas; the Feast as a Lithuanian holiday s…
Lithuanian Leisure and Holidays: Features of Formation of the Lithuanian Ethnic-Cultural Space in Vilnius and Puńsk-Sejny Regions
The article aims to reveal links between leisure and public holidays and the ethnic identity of young people in the formation of Lithuanian ethnic-cultural space in Vilnius and Puńsk-Sejny regions. To achieve the goal, the following objectives were established: (1) to reveal the concept of ethnic-cultural space and the possibilities for its formation, (2) to analyse the peculiarities of leisure time that brought the Lithuanians together, (3) to r…
Friendship and Spending Time with Friends in the City in Lithuania and Bulgaria
This article seeks to compare friendship bonds formed and maintained in two EU capital cities. There is an analysis of how people of various ages in Vilnius and Sofia perceive friendship, their assessments of friendship between people of different genders and how friendly bonds are maintained during leisure time and celebrations. The research revealed a similar concept of friendship in both cities. People in Sofia are more inclined to spend their…
Užgavėnės: A Rural and Urban, Religious, Socialist, and Lithuanian Festival of Shrovetide
Šventė Vilniuje: Naujieji metai lietuvių, lenkų ir rusų šeimose
Straipsnyje, remiantis stebėjimu, anketavimu ir pusiau reglamentuoto interviu duomenimis, taip pat istorinio lyginamojo ir interpretacinio metodų teikiamomis galimybėmis, siekiama atskleisti Naujųjų metų šventės etninius ir kultūrinius savitumus. Palyginsime lietuvių, lenkų ir rusų šeimose švenčiamos šventės dalyvių sudėtį, šventimo vietą, šventines vaišes, šeimoje palaikomas naujametines tradicijas, ateities spėjimus ir šventės vietą ritualinių …
Lietuvos Etnologija (Lithuanian Ethnology)
National and Confessional Features of Festivals and Holidays: Structure of the Ritual Year in Modern Lithuania and Bulgaria
The article aims to answer the question of whether different confessions and nationalities are an important factor in structuring a nation’s ritual year. People’s attitude towards state holidays (non-work days) is analysed based on research carried out by the author in 2012-2019 in Sofia (Bulgaria), Vilnius (Lithuania) and the towns and villages of Vilnius County. The study revealed that citizens of both states hold similar of state holidays. Mor…
Lietuvos Etnologija (Lithuanian Ethnology)
Šventė Vilniuje: Naujieji metai lietuvių, lenkų ir rusų šeimose
Straipsnyje, remiantis stebėjimu, anketavimu ir pusiau reglamentuoto interviu duomenimis, taip pat istorinio lyginamojo ir interpretacinio metodų teikiamomis galimybėmis, siekiama atskleisti Naujųjų metų šventės etninius ir kultūrinius savitumus. Palyginsime lietuvių, lenkų ir rusų šeimose švenčiamos šventės dalyvių sudėtį, šventimo vietą, šventines vaišes, šeimoje palaikomas naujametines tradicijas, ateities spėjimus ir šventės vietą ritualinių …
Užgavėnės: A Rural and Urban, Religious, Socialist, and Lithuanian Festival of Shrovetide
Friendship and Spending Time with Friends in the City in Lithuania and Bulgaria
This article seeks to compare friendship bonds formed and maintained in two EU capital cities. There is an analysis of how people of various ages in Vilnius and Sofia perceive friendship, their assessments of friendship between people of different genders and how friendly bonds are maintained during leisure time and celebrations. The research revealed a similar concept of friendship in both cities. People in Sofia are more inclined to spend their…
Lithuanian Leisure and Holidays: Features of Formation of the Lithuanian Ethnic-Cultural Space in Vilnius and Puńsk-Sejny Regions
The article aims to reveal links between leisure and public holidays and the ethnic identity of young people in the formation of Lithuanian ethnic-cultural space in Vilnius and Puńsk-Sejny regions. To achieve the goal, the following objectives were established: (1) to reveal the concept of ethnic-cultural space and the possibilities for its formation, (2) to analyse the peculiarities of leisure time that brought the Lithuanians together, (3) to r…
Lithuanian Ethnologist Angelė Vyšniauskaitė 100
Angel Vyniauskait (15.05
Four Glances at the Feast of the Assumption: The Holiday through Space and Time
In my article, I attempt to track the ritual year in different social and cultural settings. The Feast of the Assumption was chosen for this research as a traditional religious holiday in Lithuania. Various chronological periods and localities of the feast are under investigation: celebrations in the 19th to the first half of the 20th centuries; the Assumption as a Lithuanian national holiday in 1929 in Kaunas; the Feast as a Lithuanian holiday s…
National and Confessional Features of Festivals and Holidays: Structure of the Ritual Year in Modern Lithuania and Bulgaria
The article aims to answer the question of whether different confessions and nationalities are an important factor in structuring a nation’s ritual year. People’s attitude towards state holidays (non-work days) is analysed based on research carried out by the author in 2012-2019 in Sofia (Bulgaria), Vilnius (Lithuania) and the towns and villages of Vilnius County. The study revealed that citizens of both states hold similar of state holidays. Mor…
Easter Festivities During the Pandemic: Social and Cultural Aspects
In this paper, I pursued the goal to reveal the attitude of the Lithuanians living in their home country and in neighbouring ones towards holidays celebrated under the conditions of a radical lifestyle change. The study is based on the questionnaires completed by 48 respondents during two weeks after Easter 2020 that was celebrated under the quarantine restrictions. To achieve this goal and compare Easter celebrations in 2019 and 2020, I set up t…
Emily Lyle’s Jubilee
On December 19, Dr Emily Lyle, Honorary Fellow at the Department of Celtic and Scottish Studies, in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, University of Edinburgh, celebrated her ninetieth birthday. Emily is a prominent folklorist, a researcher of ritual calendars, myths, astronomy, and cosmology, a semiotician and a typologist, a connoisseur of Scottish folklore and culture, just to mention a few of her fields of interest. To honour …
Lithuanian ethnologist Petras Kalnius - 75
Petras Kalnius participated in ethnographic expeditions in almost all districts of Lithuania, also in the Punsk-Seinai region in Poland. In the latter, as in many areas of Lithuania, he led expeditionary groups. From the beginning of his work at the institute, he was directed to urban ethnographic research
Įvertinant etnologijos šaltinius: Vilniaus krašto lietuvių kalendorinės šventės jaunimo spaudos ir lauko tyrimų požiūriu
Following up on my research into youth leisure published in the last issue of Lithuanian Ethnology, in this article I compare my personal field research carried out from 1988 to 2012 and publications in the press from 1926 to 1939, analysing the calendar feasts celebrated by Lithuanians in the Vilnius region. Based on the same methodology, the study revealed that the value of leisure and festivals as a source of ethnology differs in the periodica…
Netekome Profesorės Irenos Reginos Merkienės (1937–2024)
Vilniaus krašto lietuvių jaunimo laisvalaikio atvejis (1920–1939): Spaudos Publikacijų Ir Etnografinių Lauko Tyrimų Dermė
In this article, using publications from the Jaunimo draugas magazine published in Vilnius and personal field research material, I seek to compare ethnographic material collected during field research and published ethnographic material and how these harmonise to reveal the particularities of youth leisure time in the historic Vilnius Region (1920–1939). After conducting a comparative analysis, it could be concluded that press publications cannot…
Po devyniolikos metų. Žvilgsnis į Lenkijos lietuvių jaunimo etninio ir pilietinio tapatumo kaitą
Straipsnis paremtas 2005 ir 2024 metais Punsko apylinkėse atliktų lauko tyrimų duomenimis. Analizuojant ta pačia metodika Punsko licėjuje surinktus duomenis, siekiama nustatyti jaunų Lenkijos lietuvių etninio ir pilietinio tapatumo sąveikos kaitą ir atsakyti į klausimą, ar šiam procesui turėjo įtakos sparčiai kintančios skaitmeninių komunikacijos priemonių galimybės ir jų nulemta socialinės erdvės plėtra. Palyginus dviejų tyrimų duomenis, esminių…
An Ethnologist in Two Historical Epochs: Irena Regina Merkienė
In the article, which aims to reveal the scientific life path of ethnologist Irena Regina Merkienė, I set the following tasks: 1. reveal the features of the institutionalisation of ethnology in Lithuania as compared to neighbouring countries; 2. describe ethnologist Merkienė’s research during the Soviet period; and 3. analyse Merkienė’s ethnological research after Lithuania regained independence. The conclusions obtained are that the period of Li…
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