20.500.12556/RUL-178206 The private lives of mariners’ East Asian objects memory and identity through the generations Zasebna življenja vzhodnoazijskih predmetov pomorščakov spomin in identiteta skozi generacije This article examines the domestic lives of East Asian objects brought by seafarers from Slovenian lands in the second half of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th, mostly men serving in the Austro-Hungarian War Navy. Drawing on a variety of mate-rial, documentary and oral sources it first explores how the sailors’ social and educational backgrounds, their positions on their vessels as well as other circumstances of their voy-ages impacted their access to such objects. In accordance with the fashions of the time, decorative and souvenir items dominate in their legacies.The main part of the analysis focuses on how objects’ meanings and uses changed once they were brought to the new socio-cultural milieu and displayed in the homes of the seafarers and later their heirs. For the seafarers they presented an embodied memory and testimony of their voyages and experiences in what at the time were distant and exotic lands. Through their very presence as well as the storytelling they prompted these objects to some extent also shaped the imaginaries of East Asia. In the transmission of objects through lines of inheritance, however, most of the information about their provenance was quickly lost, and the significance of the objects became anchored in the relationship with the seafaring relative. While those heirs who are direct descendants of the seafarers tend to perceive objects as material witnesses of their families’ histories, more distant rel-atives stress the objects’ decorative and aesthetic qualities. Članek obravnava življenja vzhodnoazijskih predmetov, ki so jih s potovanj z ladjami av-strijske in avstro-ogrske vojne mornarice prinesli pomorščaki iz slovenskih dežel v drugi polovici 19. in prvih desetletjih 20. stoletja. Na podlagi različnih materialnih, dokumen-tarnih in ustnih virov najprej raziskuje, kako so družbeno in izobrazbeno ozadje pomor-ščakov, njihov položaj na ladjah ter druge okoliščine potovanj vplivali na njihov dostop do vzhodnoazijskih predmetov. V skladu s takratno modo v zapuščinah pomorščakov prevladujejo dekorativni in spominski predmeti.Osrednji del članka analizira, kako so se pomen in uporaba predmetov spremenili, ko so jih prenesli v novo družbeno-kulturno okolje in razstavili v domovih pomorščakov in pozneje njihovih dedičev. Za pomorščake so predmeti predstavljali utelešen spomin in pričevanje o njihovih potovanjih in izkušnjah v takrat oddaljenih in eksotičnih deželah. Že samo s svojo prisotnostjo, še bolj pa skozi spodbujanje pripovedi o ljudeh in krajih, ki so jih pomorščaki obiskali, so do določene mere oblikovali tudi imaginarij Vzhodne Azije. Vendar se je v procesu dedovanja večina informacij o izvoru predmetov hitro izgubila, nji-hov pomen za nove lastnike pa se je vzpostavil glede na odnos do mornariškega prednika. Medtem ko dediči, ki so neposredni potomci pomorščakov, predmete običajno dojemajo kot opredmeteno družinsko zgodovino, bolj oddaljeni sorodniki poudarjajo njihovo de-korativno in estetsko vrednost. East Asian objects Austro-Hungarian Navy seafarers Slovenia vzhodnoazijski predmeti avstro-ogrska mornarica pomorščaki Slovenija true false false Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Neznano 2026-01-21 11:29:01 2026-01-21 11:29:02 2026-01-27 10:23:44 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2025 0 0 Str. 105-156 iss. 1 Vol. 13 (29) 2025 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova NiDoloceno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 2025-01-01 069.5(292.57) 2232-5131 10.4312/as.2025.13.1.105-156 223217411 RAZ_Marinac_Bogdana_2025.pdf RAZ_Marinac_Bogdana_2025.pdf 1 6A7DE0F9845D1A86160729A8FE6C2800 3c6595d64a2cc07e92bea23c26d3d2ba984857c24873e2b7c7bd8ddd73647cda 2a7a990d-f6b4-11f0-bf92-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=225811 https://journals.uni-lj.si/as/article/view/18448/17851 1 f22f47cf-f6b3-11f0-bf92-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=225810 Filozofska fakulteta 0 0 0