The aim of the study is to describe the possibilities of Greek social life in Brno and the activities of Greek organizations in the research area. The study examines the position of these organizations in the Greek community and asks to what extent they influence the respondents’ preferences to spend their free time within the communal life of the given national minority. The article tries to introduce readers into the various entertaining and educational programs realized by the observed minority with the ambition to show that Greeks enrich the city of Brno in terms of its cultural life. The study is based on the results of field research, which have already been utilized in the author’s master thesis.
The article represents the content analysis of the work of the Czech ethnographer Vaclav Marek from two points of view. The first one is the textual analysis of the thematic topics of his ethnographic work. The other is the image analysis, namely the examination of his self-made photographs taken during the fieldwork. The aim of this comparative study is to confront the research topics of Marek’s ethnographies with the topics of his photographic work. Marek’s most important themes include the pre-Christian Sami religion, the origin and evolution of the traditional Sami livelihood with reindeer breeding in the first place, the historical development of family and social life, with highlighting the degenerative evolution of the Sami women’s status in the society, or the position of the Sami minority in national states. However, these research topics are just rarely visible in Marek’s photographic work. The exception is his interest in Sami reindeer breeding, which is one of the distinctive attributes of Sami culture. In contrast to his own ethnographic studies, Marek tried to capture in the photographs an idealized and romantically glamorized view of Sami culture, avoiding some controversial topics.
