Glass Christmas
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00079481%3A_____%2F25%3AN0000007" target="_blank" >RIV/00079481:_____/25:N0000007 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://www.msb-jablonec.cz/assets/veda_a_vyzkum/2025/c_novy-glass-christmas.pdf" target="_blank" >http://www.msb-jablonec.cz/assets/veda_a_vyzkum/2025/c_novy-glass-christmas.pdf</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
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Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Glass Christmas
Original language description
The history of the production of glass Christmas tree ornaments and the history of decorating Christmas trees are a remarkable and integral part of our cultural history. Without them, Christmas as we know it would lose some of its magic. It is therefore no wonder that handmade glass Christmas tree ornaments are still sought after on both the European and the American market, albeit now mainly as luxury goods. It is by virtue of their supreme artistic and artisanal accomplishments and ingenious entrepreneurial acumen that traditional companies from Czechia and Germany have enjoyed lasting success in this highly competitive market. The enormous popularity of Christmas might lead one to believe that researchers would be similarly interested in the topic. In truth, however, this is not the case. While there are numerous popular science books that identify and describe social customs and rituals based on ethnographic findings, academic studies on the modern and cultural history of the holiday are quite rare. The study is primarily devoted to a chronologically ordered, comparative description of the global development of the production of glass Christmas tree ornaments, with special attention to Europe (Germany, Bohemia) and the USA.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
Funkelnder Baumschmuck aus Gablonz / Sparkling Tree Decorations from Gablonz 1920–1980
ISBN
978-3-7533-0837-1
Number of pages of the result
12
Pages from-to
41-52
Number of pages of the book
224
Publisher name
MAK, Vienna and Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, Cologne
Place of publication
Wien
UT code for WoS chapter
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