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Research interests:
material culture • mountain pasture and livestock grazing • architecture • dwelling culture • trade between countryside and towns • food • heritage and heritage studies • minorities • collections and collecting • Slovenia • the Alps • Friuli • Istria • borders and borderlands • mountain regions
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This article presents a theoretical and conceptual introduction to the special issue dedicated to branding, labelling and certification. The authors present the connections of these qualification instruments with regional development, multiscalarity, and actor networks from a geographical and anthropological perspective. The special issue contribut...
In the Alps a combination of cultivation and herding emerged, known as Alpine husbandry or Alpine agro-pastoral system, that consisted of two (or more) spatially segregated spheres of production – fields and meadows near the village, and the alps, i.e. low- and high-altitude pastures with structures for milk processing. This chapter examines past p...
This article presents three examples of Slovenian–Italian cross-border heritage initiatives. The ZBORZBIRK project linked thirty-four collections from the border area. The Walk of Peace trail from the Alps to the Adriatic connects the most important remnants and monuments of the Isonzo Front in Slovenia and Italy. The municipalities in Brda/Collio...
The paper presents various collective instruments used in the labelling, certification and branding of cheeses in the southeastern Alps of Slovenia and Italy. Based on long term ethnography it discusses four case studies of Montasio, Bovec, Tolminc, and Mohant cheeses, that were awarded protected designation of origin at European Union level. The i...
Monografija je strnitev raziskav treh avtoric, ki obravnavajo materialno kulturo s teoretičnega, epistemološkega, historičnega in institucionalno raziskovalnega vidika. Besedilo v petih razpravah o materialni kulturi pripoveduje o človeku, družbi, času in prostoru, saj predmeti v življenju posameznika nimajo le praktične - funkcionalne vrednosti, m...
Monografija je strnitev raziskav treh avtoric, ki obravnavajo materialno kulturo s teoretičnega, epistemološkega, historičnega in institucionalno raziskovalnega vidika. Besedilo v petih razpravah o materialni kulturi pripoveduje o človeku, družbi, času in prostoru, saj predmeti v življenju posameznika nimajo le praktične - funkcionalne vrednosti, m...
The author presents the history of local cheese evaluation, from the commodification at the end of the 19th century to modern qualification instruments, emphasizing the collective trademark and the protected designation of origin. The main actors involved in the branding process, their objectives, effects, and specific features are outlined. In add...
The chapter presents creation of a collaborative inventory and a cross-border network of collections in the framework of the cross-border project that linked different stakeholders (collectors, local communities and experts from the field of museology, ethnology and digital humanities) with the aim of valuation—i.e. identification, register, arrang...
Authors shed light on governance of goods and ecosystem services in mountains cases. Comparison is focused to governance transformations in the last century.
The article presents an overview of the past and present state of the alps, i.e. the seasonal mountain pasture of livestock and dairying practices in different areas of the Julian Alps in Slovenia and Italy. It is based on an overview of the relevant literature and archival documentation, as well as on the intensive participant observation during t...
Based on the documentation obtained in the field, the paper compares the historical, economic, social and cultural contexts of two alpine pasture areas in the Julian Alps – the alps below the mountain Montasio (Italy) and in the area of Bohinj (Slovenia). In the 20th century, the traditional vertical transhumance underwent some changes, i.e. in ter...
In comparison to other cultural phenomena, the food culture of the Slovenes in the past and present is a relatively poorly researched area of life and culture, and it has been addressed by few historical, ethnological, sociological, or anthropological studies. For decades, ethnological studies of food in Slovenia have been limited to addressing the...
Istria, a peninsula in the Adriatic, has always been a place through which many roads have passed and where boundaries have constantly changed. This paper takes up a concrete route and discusses it from three different perspectives: as a trade route connecting rural Istria with the city of Trieste and used in the twentieth century by women traders...
This paper discusses the development of a network of owners and guardians of local CH
collections as well as professionals from different fields in the Slovenian - Italian border region that was implemented in the framework of the project ZBORZBIRK. Cultural heritage in the Collections between the Alps and the Karst. The paper highlights the import...
The article outlines the history of the discourses about the architecture, design and household management aspects of the kitchen, with emphasis on the design concept of the Frankfurt and Swedish kitchens. This is followed by a presentation of the echoes in the discourses about the architecture, design and household management aspects of the kitche...
Zgodovina prehranjevanja je, kot je bilo ubesedeno v razpisu Zveze zgodovinskih društev Slovenije, neločljivo povezana z agrarno, gosp-odarsko in politično zgodovino, zgodovino tehnologije in tehnike, ritu-alov in simbolike, skupnosti in posameznikov, predvsem pa je prostor-sko umeščena-odvisna od geografskih in podnebnih danosti območja, v katerem...
On the basis of the preserved and reconstructed fireplaces, the paper presents the development and the diversity of the dwelling culture and architecture on the culturally diverse region between the Alps and the Karst.
THETRIS is an international project implemented through the Central Europe Programme. The focus of the project is sustainable preservation of local church-es and sacral monuments in eight Central European countries by developing a transnational church route, elaborating joint strategies and testing innovative so-lutions to preserve churches in orde...
The monograph presents the formal development of the kitchen in the Vipava Valley regarding the changes in kitchen practices and the image of the kitchen. Kitchen is actually that part of the dwelling, where a major part of our daily routine takes place in the kitchen. In addition to being a place for food preparation, the kitchen also defines our...
This article discusses the form, structure, meanings and changes of fireplaces in the countryside of the Vipava Valley in the first half of the 20th century. The research was carried out using various sources: 1. realia, such as fireplaces and fireplace equipment, which were preserved either in situ or in other places, for example used in another f...
On the basis of the relevant literature, different sources and the simultaneous ethnography the article outlines the imagery of the Mediterranean architecture and dwelling-architecturescapes in the Vipava Valley. The gradual and intense changes of the Mediterranean cultural landscape in the interlacement of the socio-historical conditions in the fi...
This article discusses the creation of an inventory of thirty-four local cultural heritage collections in the border region between the Alps and the Karst, and the establishment of a network of owners and guardians of the collections, as well as professionals from the fields of museology, ethnology, digital humanities, and informatics. In the proje...
Purpose: The article discusses the digitisation and inventory of 34 local cultural heritage collections in the border region between the Alps and the Karst, and the establishment of a network of owners, guardians of collections and professionals from the field of museology, ethnology, digital humanities and informatics.Methodology/approach: In the...
Purpose: The article discusses the digitisation and inventory of 34 local cultural heritage collections in the border region between the Alps and the Karst, and the establishment of a network of owners, guardians of collections and professionals from the field of museology, ethnology, digital humanities and informatics.
Methodology/approach: In the...
The paper discusses the documentation of cultural heritage in the project ZBORZBIRK - Cultural Heritage in Collections between the Alps and the Karst (ZBORZBIRK - Kulturna dediščina v zbirkah med Alpami in Krasom). The project focuses primarily on the register of collections of ethnologically relevant objects, the related cataloguing, entry in the...
The paper presents the sociohistorical conditions, trade routes and everyday life of migrant women traders from the north-eastern Istrian countryside. In the first half of the 20th century they traded in central Istria, where they gathered eggs, and paid for them with consumer goods, e.g. thread, soap, paraffin, salt, kerchiefs and handkerchiefs an...
Mountain pasturing has existed in the Alps already since prehistoric times through to the present day. Archaeological findings and the etymology of toponyms, pasture and dairying expressions prove the existence of pasturing in the present area of the Triglav National Park (TNP) in pre-Roman and Roman times as well as the practice of milk processing...
Cultural and natural elements contribute to the development of rural areas. Identifying and evaluating development aspects and the interconnection of cultural values and local stakeholders are key to managing cultural values. This article defines cultural values with development potential by studying the relevant research literature and legislation...
The article outlines the study of dwelling culture in European and Slovenian ethnological research practices. In the first half of the 20th century, dwelling culture was studied indirectly in the framework of interests in development as well as in the formal elements of architecture. It became an independent research topic in the second half of the...
The paper is based on ethnographic fieldwork of migrant workers in Istria and an analysis of selected works of literature which directly or indirectly interpret the phenomenon of Šavrinkas, Šavrins and Šavrinija, and which played a crucial role in the «Š avrinization» of the northeastern Istrian countryside. Our current understanding of Šavrinija a...
Avtorica razpravlja o najpomembnejsih virih in literaturi za raziskovanje stavbarstva in bivalne kulture v Vipavski dolini, spisanih pred drugo svetovno vojno. Upostevani so potopisi, porocila, zemljevidi, risbe, kataster, periodika, domoznanska literatura in leposlovje. Sledi predstavitev poglavitne jezikoslovne, etnoloske, geografske in sicersnje...
In the period from the late 19"' century until the Second World War the hilly area of Koper's hinterland saw the development of a special trade in eggs, carried out predominantly by women called šavrinke (sing. šavrinka; after the area's name šavrinija.) They purchased eggs in central Istria to sell them in Trieste. Nowadays there are no more eggwo...
IZVLEČEK V obdobju od konca 19. stoletja do druge svetovne vojne se je na območju višjega dela koprskega zaledja razvila dejavnost preprodajanja z jajci. S tem so se ukvarjale predvsem ženske, ki so jim pravili Šavrinke. Po jajca so hodile v osrednjo Istro in jih prodajale v Trstu. Danes jajčaric ni več, kljub temu pa Šavrinka v nekem simbolnem smi...
