OBSAH 58/SN2/2010 EDITORIAL ŠTÚDIE B itu š í kov á, Alexandra

OBSAH 58/SN2/2010
EDITORIAL
ŠTÚDIE
B i t u š í k o v á, Alexandra: Antropologický výskum mesta v 21. storočí: tendencie, výzvy a
aplikácie... 129
P o p e l k o v á, Katarína: Urbánne štúdium v slovenskej etnológii – poznámky k aktuálnemu
dialógu etnológie s antropológiou............................................... 143
D a r u l o v á, Jolana: Obsahové a funkčné zmeny centra mesta - moderné a tradičné, alebo
hľadanie novej tváre centra...................................... 159
K o š t i a l o v á, Katarína: Mesto univerzite – univerzita mestu - prípadová štúdia vzťahu
vysokoškolskej inštitúcie a spoločenstva mesta Zvolen.................. 176
MATERIÁLY
F a l ť a n o v á, Ľubica: K podnikateľskému prostrediu Bratislavy............................ 194
T e s á r o v á, Katarína: Mesto ako priestor identifikácie – na príklade centra Bratislavy.....
208
ROZHĽADY – SPRÁVY – GLOSY
Pozdrav Viere Nosáľovej (Zuzana Š t e f á n i k o v á)....................................... 223
Vilmosovi Voigtovi (pár slov k sedemdesiatke) (Milan L e š č á k)................ 225
Podujatie pri príležitosti sedemdesiatin Vilmosa Voigta (József L i s z k a)...... 227
Pozdrav Hansovi-Jörgovi Utherovi (Viera G a š p a r í k o v á)......................... 228
K životnému jubileu Daniela Luthera (Dušan R a t i c a)................................ 232
Pozdrav jubilujúcemu prof. Bernardovi Garajovi (Margita J á g e r o v á)........ 237
Seminár o ľudovom odievaní (Júlia K n a p c o v á).................................... 241
Cena Múzeum roka a Cena Andreja Kmeťa.................................................. 242
RECENZIE – ANOTÁCIE
D. Luther: Z Prešporka do Bratislavy (Katarína P o p e l k o v á)................... 244

M. Detelić: Epski gradovi. Leksikon (Jana P o s p í š i l o v á)...................... 246
P. Frankl – P. Frankl: Židia v Žiline (Peter S a l n e r)............................................ 247
K. Altman – L. Kudělková – V. Filip: Zmizelý svět brněnských kaváren
(Peter S a l n e r).................................. 249
M. Ferencová – J. Nosková (eds.): Paměť města (obraz města, veřejné
komemorace a historické zlomy v 19. – 21. století) (Peter S a l n e r)........... 250
B. Soukupová – H. Novotná – Z. Jurková – A. Stawarz (eds): Evropské město (Identita,
symbol, mýtus) (Peter S a l n e r)..................... 251
Journal of Urban Ethnology (Ľubica F a l ť a n o v á)............................................ 253
B. Malovcová a kol.: SVIT (1934 - 2009) - História jednej myšlienky (Peter L a u č
ík)............................................ 254
J. Fekete-Apolkin: Slovník modrokamenských toponým (Miloš Š í p k a).......... 256
M. Šrámková: Česká prozaická folkloristika v letech 1945–2000 (Viera G a š p a r í k o v
á)............................ 257
P. Slavkovský: Svet na odchode. Tradičná agrárna kultúra Slovákov v strednej a južnej
Európe (Miroslav V á l k a)...... 259
CONTENTS
STUDIES
B i t u š í k o v á, Alexandra: Anthropological Research of the Town in the 21st Century:
Trends, Challenges and Applications...................................... 129
P o p e l k o v á, Katarína: Urban Research in Slovak Ethnology: Notes to Current Dialog
between Ethnology and Anthropology... 143
D a r u l o v á, Jolana: Contents and Functional Changes of the City Centre................. 159
K o š t i a l o v á, Katarína: The Town to the University - The University to the Town.... 176
MATERIALS
F a l ť a n o v á, Ľubica: On the Enterprise Environment in Bratislava........................ 194
T e s á r o v á, Katarína: The Town as a Place of Identification – with the Example of
Bratislava City Centre.............................. 208

NEWS
Greetings to Viera Nosáľová (Zuzana Š t e f á n i k o v á)............................................ 223
To Vilmos Voigt (a few words for his 70th) (Milan L e š č á k)................................... 225
An Event for the Occasion of Vilmos Voigt‘s Seventieth Birthday (József L i s z k a)..... 227
Greetings to Hans-Jörg Uther (Viera G a š p a r í k o v á)............................................. 228
For Daniel Luther‘s Life Jubilee (Dušan R a t i c a)............................................... 232
Greetings to Prof. Bernard Garaj on his Jubilee (Margita J á g e r o v á)............... 237
Seminar on Folk Dress (Júlia K n a p c o v á) ………………………………….241
Museum of the Year Prize and Andrej Kmeť Prize..................................................... 242
BOOK REVIEWS- ANNOTATIONS
A B S T R A C T S SN 2/2010
ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH OF THE TOWN IN THE 21st CENTURY:
TRENDS, CHALLENGES AND APPLICATIONS
(ANTROPOLOGICKÝ VÝSKUM MESTA V 21. STOROČÍ: TENDENCIE, VÝZVY A
APLIKÁCIE)
ALEXANDRA BITUŠÍKOVÁ
PhDr. Alexandra Bitušíková, CSc., Ústav vedy a výskumu, Univerzita
Mateja Bela, Cesta na amfiteáter 1, 97401 Banská Bystrica, Slovakia,
alexandra.bitusikova@umb.sk
The paper deals with trends, challenges and applications of urban
anthropology worldwide. It brings a comparative view of historical
developments and of contemporary theoretical, methodological and
thematic schools, directions and tendencies in the development of
urban anthropology. The author presents her subjective reflections
on older and recent literature, and identifies three areas of urbananthropological
research of the present day: city and people; city and
space; and city and culture. In addition to theoretical contributions

of urban anthropology to multidisciplinary urban studies, she
emphasises also the importance of applied anthropological
research in urban place-making and governance. On the basis
of global trends in urban anthropological studies, she suggests
their implications on the Slovak urban anthropological research.
Kľúčové slová: urbánna antropológia, história a vývojové trendy,
metodológia, aplikovaný urbánny výskum
Key words: urban anthropology, history and development trends,
methodology, applied urban research
URBAN RESEARCH IN SLOVAK ETHNOLOGY: NOTES TO CURRENT DIALOG
BETWEEN ETHNOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY
(URBÁNNE ŠTÚDIUM V SLOVENSKEJ ETNOLÓGII – POZNÁMKY
K AKTUÁLNEMU DIALÓGU ETNOLÓGIE S ANTROPOLÓGIOU)
KATARÍNA POPELKOVÁ
PhDr. Katarína Popelková, CSc., Ústav etnológie SAV, Klemensova
19, 813 64 Bratislava – Slovensko; e-mail: katarina.popelkova@savba.sk
This study is concerned with the contemporary trends of development
in urban research in Slovak ethnology which have been evolving since
the 1980s. The author summarises the findings on this orientation in
the course of the last decade and, based on their analysis, identifies
the main thematic trends, comments on their content and indicates
the methodological connections of the current dialogue of Slovak
ethnology and the urban research developing within its framework.
As its broader context the study employs the currently ongoing
communication of Slovak ethnology and social/cultural anthropology
as two distinct disciplines.
As analysis shows, urban ethnology in Slovakia has developed in
three different directions in the period under review. (1) In the form
of a broad current of themes and approaches it continued the research
and interpretative trends which set in during the 1980s and especially
during the 1990s. (2) The second developmental trend which is
postulated is a successful attempt to integrate the research results of
Slovak ethnologists into a European context of examination of the
processes of diversity in towns, on the basis of participation in the
Network of Excellence Project entitled Sustainable Development in
a Diverse World. Communication with the theoretical premises of
urban researches by the European social sciences (anthropology,

sociology, demography and so forth) has provided Slovak researchers
with an opportunity to gain new thematic and methodological stimuli
which have been utilised abroad for study of the town.
(3) A third direction of development in urban research is identified
by the author as the research and especially the theoretical activity
of the youngest generation of academic Slovak ethnologists, who in
working with the empirical material gained from research of Slovak
towns have declared anthropological premises and knowledge goals.

Although they are not consciously developing their work in the context
of urban ethnology, on closer inspection it is apparent that they have an
opportunity to influence its further thematic and theoretical orientation.
Their work offers a critical evaluation and use of theories from a
number of social and human sciences; they point to the inescapable
need to cultivate terminological discipline and reject the intuitive
employment of theoretical concepts.
Kľúčové slová: etnológia v meste, slovenská etnológia, urbánna
etnológia, dejiny etnológie
Key words: ethnology in the town, Slovak ethnology, urban ethnology,
history of ethnology
CONTENTS AND FUNCTIONAL CHANGES OF THE CITY CENTRE
(OBSAHOVÉ A FUNKČNÉ ZMENY CENTRA MESTA - Moderné a tradičné, alebo
hľadanie novej tváre centra mesta)
JOLANA DARULOVÁ
Doc. PhDr. Jolana Darulová, CSc., Ústav vedy a výskumu UMB, Cesta
na amfiteáter 1, 974 01 Banská Bystrica, Slovensko;
jolana.darulova@umb.sk
Since 1889 the central areas of Slovak towns have undergone striking
changes in content and function. One may rate positively the exclusion
of traffic and the introduction of pedestrian zones where the commercial
and social-cultural potential of the town is normally concentrated. This
has created opportunities for meeting, casual trade and social contacts.
Based on research into the changes of content and function in the
centre of Banská Bystrica, one may say that the historic memory of
the town has come into confrontation with the new contents, meanings
and symbols immediately present in the town‘s central areas. The
nodes of communication are gradually changing in the process of
transformation, while at the same time modernisation fills with new
contents above all those „vacated places“ which were distinctively
marked by socialism in the recent past. Freedom of enterprise, free
trade and the market mechanism have permitted new elements and
processes to penetrate to the town spaces, visible in the ethnicity of
shopkeepers and business executives as well as in the massive inrush
of hypermarkets and shopping centres. A positive phenomenon is the
fact that in the process of rebuilding the square and its adjoining streets

the original historic character of the town centre has been preserved
and courtyards have been opened up and made accessible to the public,
with suitable building extensions for small shops and enterprises.
However, the construction of a commercial-social centre situated in
the vicinity of the pedestrian zone has disrupted many of the square‘s
functions and much commercial and social activity has transferred
itself to this new complex.
Kľúčové slová: urbánna etnológia, mesto Banská Bystrica, urbanizácia,
industrializácia, deindustrializácia, výstavba nákupno-spoločenského
centra

Key words: urban ethnology, city Banská Bystrica, urbanization,
industrialization, deindustrialization, construction of a commercialsocial
centre
THE TOWN TO THE UNIVERSITY – THE UNIVERSITY TO THE TOWN
(MESTO UNIVERZITE – UNIVERZITA MESTU - prípadová štúdia vzťahu vysokoškolskej
inštitúcie a spoločenstva mesta Zvolen)
KATARÍNA KOŠTIALOVÁ
PhDr. Katarína Koštialová, PhD., Ústav vedy a výskumu UMB, Cesta na
amfiteáter 1, 974 01 Banská Bystrica, Slovensko;
katarina.kostialova@umb.sk
This paper is concerned with researching the existence of a university
and its influence on a small town. The object of investigation was
the Technical University (formerly the University of Forestry and
Woodworking) and the town of Zvolen. The author studied where,
how, and by means of what and whom the university was presented
in the town and perceived by the town‘s inhabitants. She investigated
the university in the broader context of the town, with emphasis on the
university-town interaction.
The author focused on the „inner“ and especially the „outer“ life of the
university, its cultural, economic, social capital and their presentation.
In this paper the university is perceived as an institution which apart
from its inductive-educational, scientific-research and cultural-social
functions also fulfils a function of cultural reproduction. Simultaneously
it is a bearer of socio-cultural values and traditions, status rankings,
and the most varied bonds, communicative relations and meanings.
The paper also points to the reasons for the emergence, preconditions,
formation and establishment of the university in the town, which are
reflected not only in the town‘s socio-spatial structure but also in
the cultural capital of its inhabitants (for example, the educational
structure). The existence of a school whose orientation is unique and
specific in Slovakia is mirrored also in the construction of a network
of scientific-research workplaces in the town in question, which is
regarded as the centre of forestry and woodworking. Currently there is
no other town in Slovakia where one can find so many forestry research
and teaching establishments of state-wide relevance.
Contacts and social networks of the town‘s inhabitants with the

university are constructed also through the medium of the TU‘s
employees, who are themselves mainly Zvolen people, and by a

dynamic group of students. An important indicator also is the economic
capital which the university represents in a small town. It is expressed in
employment opportunities and in the form of other material resources.
The author states that the university students form a social group
which contributes to creating urban subcultures and in their rituals
display a consciousness of common culture and identity and the
continuity of forestry traditions in this area. The existence of the
university also brings the town‘s inhabitants a specific culturalsocial
and educational dimension which is, as regards the school‘s
orientation, different from other towns. The activities which the
school and the students carry out (erecting maypoles, the folk
festival, lectures, exhibitions and sporting activities) are not practised
exclusively on the university grounds but are rather part of the urban
space, and the town‘s inhabitants take part in them deliberately or
casually. The urban society views them positively, as characteristic
and typical of the town of Zvolen, which is identified with them.
Kľúčové slová: mesto Zvolen, Technická univerzita Zvolen, študenti
univerzity, interakcia, rituály
Key words: city Zvolen, Technical University of city Zvolen, students
of the univercity, interaction, rituals