Klaipėdos universitetas

In the article, personal festive celebrations of co-workers in a diachronic perspective are examined. The following occasions: birthdays, childbirth, marriage, funerals (the family life cycle), and employee employability, seniority or similar achievements and retirement (the working life cycle), are important for socialising with co-workers, for job satisfaction, and in the formation of an organisational culture. By analysing fieldwork data, we determine the intensity of the commemoration of these occasions in the studied areas.

The article analyses the concept of leisure time, and the ways it is perceived by two generations of people. It seeks to reveal the specifics of leisure in the area around Vilnius, by analysing: Catholic Sunday leisure; leisure as replacing one activity with another; and the concept of ‘own’ and ‘family’ leisure, revealing the relative perception of the importance of leisure and work. The main source of the work is ethnographic fieldwork data collected in the Vilnius area in 2017 and 2018. Research on family leisure was also used, which was based on the same methodology carried out in Vilnius (2012 to 2015), for the purpose of comparison.

Principles of State Protection of Ethnic Culture defines the ethnographic region as a historically formed part of the country in which a distinctive dialect, traditions and customs have been preserved, and the heritage of the Baltic tribes has been integrated, it is difficult to coordinate the data and attitudes of linguists, historians and ethnologists. The article shows the difference between ethnographic maps (which are based on the values of traditional culture), most of which attribute Vilnius to the ethnographic region of Dzūkija, and the view of the people living in these areas that the Vilnius area belongs to the ethnographic region of Aukštaitija.