Pretekle in sodobne oblike skupnega v dolini Trenti

Contemporary social sciences, humanities and mass media discourses are increasingly searching for a solution to the problems of the centralised, capitalised, technologically-conditioned and politically-represented world. In this search they are oft en inspired by pre-industrial organizational models which have been recorded by ethnologists and anthropologists. Since they oft en neglect the concrete circumstances which enabled these models, modern suggestions run the risks idealization and generalization. This paper, thus, examines the creation of institutions in the micro-location of Trenta, while considering environmental and demographic factors (which are frequently overlooked in Slovenian anthropological research and writings). Economic, political and cultural factors are also considered, although not in a hierarchical relationship to environment and demography. The paper seeks out signs of collective efforts at the level of households, neighbourhoods, villages, agrarian communities (commons), cooperatives, and local tourism. Special attention is paid to Trentarski senjem, a market and religious holiday. Its analysis enables very plastic presentation of the symbolic (spatial-temporal) shift s taking place in the socioeconomic structure of theTrentaValleyin the 20th century