This article utilises skeletal evidence (n = 57) from settlement features and graves at Unterhautzenthal, Lower Austria, to outline our methodological approach to researching motherhood in prehistory. Unterhautzenthal includes the grave of a pregnant teenager, a triple burial of a woman with...

A former transhumant group of Bulgarian Karakachans has undergone significant changes in their social and material life during the last sixty years. Karakachan naming strategies during the 20th century are analyzed on the basis of a detailed database containing data of 700 persons. ...

lthough household food waste has been scrutinized from various angles, less attention has been paid to rural areas viewed through the prism of everyday life. The purpose of this study is to investigate household food wasting in rural environment in West Bohemia, Czech Republic....

The main body of the contribution represents the document (nowadays deposited in the archive of the Czechoslovakian club ´T. G. Masaryk´ in Sofia) ´Czechoslovakian National House “T. G. Masaryk” – the Voyvodovo branch´, written in 1932 by the first Czech teacher in Voyvodovo, Jan&#...

In the Czech Republic, Bulgarian (and Balkan) studies have been tradition- ally pursued in departments of philology. In this country, knowledge about the life and culture of the Balkan count...

The aim of this paper is to present the findings from our research on dumpster diving. We are interested in the ways that gender influences the behaviour of people who participate in dumpster diving, and how the gender differences of participants affect their perception of...

The article, based on textual analyses and long-term fieldwork, is devoted to the theme of the alternative conceptualization, via the well-known concepts of social network and transnationalism, of Ukrainian labour migration into the Czech Republic. The aim of the survey, which is concei...

The paper focuses on developments in the Premonstratensian monastery in Teplá near Mariánské Lázně in the period after the World War II. This significant West Bohemian monastery had a reputation of a German monastery in the first half of the 20th century. After the War, T...

The text deals with contact area and mutual inspirations of methodologies stemming from cultural anthropology and oral history. It summarizes recent international discussion about memory, body, and senses in social sciences and introduces few concepts (e.g. food as a language, food evoking&#...

The aim of this paper is to show how collective memory can be influenced and which methods can be used to do so. Research focuses on the liberation of Rokycany after the Second World War in 1945 and on the methods of interpreting the liberation in the socialist&...

The aim of this paper is to reflect on the ethical dilemma of researchers who encounter illegal activity during their research, or of researchers who are particularly interested in this kind of activity. The inspiration comes from research that we are currently &...