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August Horislav Škultéty
August Horislav Škultéty (; August 7, 1819 – May 29, 1892) was a Slovak writer, pedagogue, and ethnographer, and the director of the first Slovak high school in Revúca. Early years and career August Horislav Škultéty was born in Veľký Krtíš and attended basic school in Tisovec. From 1833 to 1836 he attended lower secondary school at the Lutheran Lyceum in Banská Štiavnica and graduated from the Lutheran high school in Kežmarok. During 1836–1839, he studied theology at the Lutheran Seminary in Bratislava. Beginning in 1839 he was assistant of the professor Juraj Palkovič at the Department of Czech and Slovak Speech and Literature, Lutheran Seminary in Bratislava. He was a chaplain of Tisovec in the years 1841–1848, under Pavol Jozeffy's superintendency. From 1847/48 to 1850 he served as a priest in Dlhá Ves and from 1850 to 1861 in Rozložná. He moved to the first Slovak-language Gymnasium (school), high school, which was created in Revúca, where he worked f ...
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Ethnography is a branch of anthropology and the systematic study of individual cultures. It explores cultural phenomena from the point of view of the subject of the study. Ethnography is also a type of social research that involves examining the behavior of the participants in a given social situation and understanding the group members' own interpretation of such behavior. As a form of inquiry, ethnography relies heavily on participant observation, where the researcher participates in the setting or with the people being studied, at least in some marginal role, and seeking to document, in detail, patterns of social interaction and the perspectives of participants, and to understand these in their local contexts. It had its origin in social and cultural anthropology in the early twentieth century, but has, since then, spread to other social science disciplines, notably sociology. Ethnographers mainly use qualitative methods, though they may also include quantitative data. T ...
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