LEISURE ACTIVITIES OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE 1950s AND 1960s FROM AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE: THE CASE OF THE VILLAGE DROUŽKOVICE
Abstract
How did our grandparents enjoy their childhood and youth? How were their activities determined by the social climate in the context of official governing regime? Was their spending of leisure different than contemporary political images? - We would like to use an example of one village to show how did the children and young people spend their leisure time and to compare it with images of theoretic of leisure. Particularly we have aimed to the village Droužkovice which lies in the Czech borderland.
We have used the interviews with respondents who were born in 40's and that's why their memories in 50's and 60's we can divide into three categories. It means leisure time in childhood (aged less than 15) in adolescence (aged 15-18) and on the beginning of their adulthood (aged 18-26). - This contribution should show the possibilities in the research of leisure time in ethnology and anthropology in the confrontation with another social sciences approaches and it should present how can historical and social events determine this phenomenon.