Trends in Urban Research and Their Reflection in slovak ethnology / Anthropology ****************************************************************************************** * Alexandra Bitušíková ****************************************************************************************** Abstrakt The study reflects the development of Slovak urban ethnology and anthropology since its be 1970s. It explores theoretical and methodological approaches toward the study of the city and postsocialist periods and tries to find correlations with the development of urban ant Western Europe and the United States. It mentions weaknesses and strengths of urban resear in Slovakia. The main emphasis of the paper is on the latest urban anthropological trends their reflection in contemporary Slovak urban ethnological and anthropological research. S is paid to three areas of current urban research: the problem of urban diversity; the prob production and construction of urban public space, and the problem of urban culture and lo identity and symbols. Klíčová slova history of Slovak urban ethnology; trends in urban research Článek v PDF ke stažení [ URL "LM-1001-version1-bitusikova20102.pdf"] Alexandra Bitušíková [ URL "LM-110.html "]