CEIPA and IEA Educational Workshop
In folklore, ethnology and anthropology, the term folk culture is very often encountered. It is known that it "lived" in small, local communities. It is that layer of culture that was built over the centuries by anonymous, unknown or little-known folk creators to satisfy the significant and broad needs of the people. One of the main features of the creators of this culture is that they were also an audience. In addition, folk culture was transmitted from generation to generation, through the mechanisms of tradition and therefore, it is also called traditional culture.
Folk culture represents an indissoluble unity with material elements (artifacts) and spiritual elements (mentifacts) to which are attached social organization, norms of behavior, morality, etc. Accordingly, some researchers distinguish three entities within folk culture:
-material culture (dwellings and folk architecture, household goods, economy, nutrition, handicrafts, clothing and adornment...);
-spiritual culture (folk beliefs, customs, rituals and holidays, folk poetry and prose, music and instruments, games, applied art...);
-social culture (family, gender, kinship relations, relations with rural and urban municipalities, social organizations (church, guild, educational, etc. as well as folk customary - legal norms...).
This exhibition presents only some elements of the folk culture of Macedonians in the 19th and 20th centuries - artifacts collected during several decades of field research and during the field teaching of teachers and generations of students from the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the PMF throughout Macedonia. In shaping the Collection of Ethnographic Objects, we should mention the efforts of our professors: Dr. Aneta Svetieva and Dr. Gjorgji Zdravev, and especially the efforts of Dr. Krste Bogoeski, who initiated its establishment within the Institute. Therefore, as a sign of gratitude, we dedicate this exhibition to them.
The exhibition is open to visiting students from primary and secondary schools. During previous organized visits, it has been visited by over 400 students, mainly from the Skopje area but also from other parts of Macedonia. The visit is free, and within its framework, in agreement with the teachers, creative workshops are also conducted that connect newly acquired knowledge with the teaching content.
