Human-powered transport in Slovakia until the second half of the 20th century. Selected questions

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31261/SEIA.2021.21.02.06

Keywords:

transport, human-powered transport, ethnography of Slovakia, traditional economy

Abstract

For centuries, traditional means of transport have been tightly connected to traditional peasant culture. The work of a farmer has always represented not only the means of adaptation to the natural environment and the acquisition of essential articles of food and raw materials, but also the realization of one’s cultural identity. Over the centuries, it has acquired its typical features and has become distinct within several regional forms. This has been reflected in the traditional means of transport related to the daily annual cycle of a farmer’s work, as well as various non-agricultural opportunities. The aim of the study is to summarize the knowledge within the field of traditional transport in Slovakia during the first half of the 20th century, exemplified through some typical transport aids. It aims to point out their manifold utilization and their gradual adaptation to the changing natural, historical, and social conditions.

Author Biography

Katarína Slobodová Nováková, University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava

Katarína Slobodová Nováková, ethnologist, cultural anthropologist. Her academic interests concern the issues of Slovaks living abroad, cultural heritage, cultural traditions, relations of cultural heritage and language, viticulture, traditional transport and mountain cultures. She is the author and co-author of more
than 20 academic books, two teaching texts, almost 100 research studies and scholarly works. She is a member of several scientific and professional institutions, organizations and councils. Her long-term studies focus on the issue of ethnic minorities in Slovakia, as well as on specific socio-professional and social groups and their existence during the period of political breakthroughs in the 20th century in Slovakia – after the First and the Second World War, 1948, 1968, 1989, the establishment of the republic and the current influence of globalisation. She has been dealing with the German minority groups topic for almost five years, has published several scholarly studies and has participated in international conferences. She was the first to bring the issue of the German group Huncokári to the centre of attention of not only the academic, but especially the lay public. She actively engages in the life of the community, cooperates with civic associations and the region’s dignitaries as well as with representatives of towns and municipalities. She gives lectures on minorities and the possibility of their revitalisation at the University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava.
She has successfully supervised five doctoral students, more than 60 bachelor’s and master’s theses.

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2021-12-28

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Slobodová Nováková, K. (2021). Human-powered transport in Slovakia until the second half of the 20th century. Selected questions. Studia Etnologiczne I Antropologiczne, 21(2), 1–20. https://doi.org/10.31261/SEIA.2021.21.02.06

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