Towards Ethnological Perspectives and Images

Prispevek predstavlja izhodišča, izvedbo in nekatera spoznanja raziskovalnega projekta »Etnološki pogledi in podobe med 19. in 21. stoletjem«, ki jih gre razumeti kot preiskavo možnosti, kako zasnovati reprezentativno delo o podobi kulture in kulturnih procesov na Slovenskem. Od konca 19. stoletja so se korenito spreminjali in spremenili kulturna podoba (v najširšem etnološkem pomenu izraza kultura), prizorišča vsakdanjega življenja, potrebe, načini komunikacije, vrednote, identitetni vzorci itn., hkrati pa je to tudi čas, ko je sodobna etnološka-folkloristična veda dozorevala iz domoznanskih in filoloških podlag v znanstveno disciplino. Ujetost v ta čas je označila zasnovo projekta, ki ga je usmerjala ambicija po spoznanjih o presečiščih in stičiščih med empirično zaznavnim in znanstvenimi posegi vanj, po razbiranju »pogledov« na raziskovano resničnost in razkrivanju »podob« o njej. *** This article presents the background, implementation, and some findings of the research project Etnološki pogledi in podobe med 19. in 21. stoletjem (Ethnological Perspectives and Images between the Nineteenth and Twenty-First Centuries), which are to be understood as a study of the possibilities to design a representative work on culture and cultural processes in Slovenia. From the end of the nineteenth century onwards, the images of culture (or culture in the broadest ethnological meaning), venues of everyday life, needs, communication modes, values, identity patterns, and so on have changed radically; at the same time, this has been a period in which modern ethnology and folklore studies have matured from local studies and philology into a scholarly discipline. Restriction to this period has marked the design of the project, which has been guided by the ambition to know more about the intersections and crossroads between empirically perceivable elements and scholarly interventions in them, to comprehend the “views” of the reality studied, and to reveal “images” connected with it.