A SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTION TO THE NATIONAL IDENTITY DISSEMINATION IN LITHUANIA: A REVIEW OF „ETUDES OF TAUTOTYRA“

This short article is the review of the book entitled "Etudes of Tautotyra“ (A theory and his-tory of Lithuanian ethnology) (author – professor Ona Voverienė). The book consists of eight chap-ters. As it is stated by the author, this book does not pretend to consider it as monograph or a serious educational book. Despite a book genre all discussed questions on national identity are very important for our country. The national identity is the society and state base. The current political situation in Lithuania doesn't create good conditions for development of national identity. We should agree with an author`s position that a national situation of the present Lithuania can be named as sorrowful, because of an erosion of national values. Each member of a society is obliged to make everything in order to keep and develop universal and national values. The development of national values should be the main priority of our society. At the end of the book its author calls her nationals to return to the national culture and national values, saying „We were born the Lithuanians and the Lithuanians we must be!“. We should agree with this logical position.