The Disappearing ethnography of villages

ENThis essay–type article will talk about the ethnographic flaneur or the disappearing ethnography of Lithuanian villages. So the aim of this essay–type article is to disclose the extent of the decadence of Lithuanian villages altogether with the disappearing ethnography of villages. Unfortunately, in recent decades, we have been very clearly facing with the decadence or disappearance of countryside’s ethnography. It starts with the deaths of the villagers along with the loss of memory, along with the artifacts of their unique daily lifestyle, with the disappearance of the unique artifacts of the countryside’s houses, the interior and exterior of the houses. There is nothing more sad when there is no light left in the houses, only closed windows and doors where a little life could be seen before. Unfortunately, birds are also disappearing, people are disappearing in villages as well... Keywords: artifact, flaneur, flaneuring, disappearing ethnography, field research, phenomenology, facing memory, sacrum and profanum, heritage, axis mundi, homestead, field research, folk artist.