Inventing the Carnival

Contemporary Festivities, Tradition and Imaginaries

Bibliographic Data

ID9784927
AuthorsDaniela Stavělová (0000-0001-8989-559X, Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Ethnology, corresponding author), Matěj Kratochvíl (0000-0002-3887-063X, Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Ethnology)
Year2016
Volume103
Issue4
Pages569-595
Publication date2016-12-15
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueČeský lid (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0009-0794 • E-ISSN: 2570-9216
PublisherInstitute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences (PUBLISHER • CZ)
DOI10.21104/cl.2016.4.03
OpenAlexW2563812020
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited14

Since the early 1990s, an increasing number of festivities in the Czech Republic can be observed, constructed after a historical form of the rural carnival (“masopust”). They reveal the needs and intentions of contemporary urban society, which manipulates elements of the carnival in the context of contemporary activities. We focus on the way the structural units of the festivity are selected and appropriated by people within the construction of its contemporary form. The ethnomusicological and ethnochoreological approach enables us to reflect the cognitive process of the participants who makes visible their personal as well as collective experience of the festivity and provides us information about social relationships, culture and collective memory produced together with images of the time. The qualitative field research took place in several districts of Prague and its suburbs, based on relationships between place and interests

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