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Record Nr.

UNINA9910796542403321

Autore

Rihtman-Augustin Dunja

Titolo

Ethnology, myth and politics : anthropologizing Croatian ethnology / / by Dunja Rihtman-Augustin ; edited by Jasna Capo Zmegac

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Taylor and Francis, , 2017

ISBN

1-351-93886-X

1-315-25604-5

1-351-93887-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (165 pages)

Collana

Progress in European Ethnology

Disciplina

305.8/0094972

Soggetti

Ethnology - Croatia

Croatia Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2004 by Ashgate Publishing.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

chapter 1 Between Ethnicity and Nation -- chapter 2 Vuk Karadžic: Past and Present or On the History of Folk Culture -- chapter 3 The Zadruga Between Real and Imagined Order -- chapter 4 Antun Radic: Peasants into Croats -- chapter 5 Distancing Ethnology from Politics -- chapter 6 Ethnology During Socialism and After -- chapter 7 Ethnology and the Ethnomyth -- chapter 8 Anthropologizing Ethnology -- chapter 9 The Ethno-Anthropologist in his Native Field: to Observe or to Witness? -- chapter 10 The ICTY in The Hague and Anthropological Expertise.

Sommario/riassunto

"The book offers a critical overview of Croatian ethnology written by the most prominent Croatian ethnologist/ anthropologist in the second half of the 20th century - Dunja Rihtman-Augustin (recently deceased). She was the first Croatian ethnologist to break with the long established tradition of diffusionist (culture area) studies of her contemporaries and start to anthropologize Croatian ethnology. This book, compiled and completed by Jasna Capo Zmegac, highlights some crucial remarks with regard to the relationship between ethnology and politics. They are formulated as a series of research questions and problems, including: the role of folk culture as mythomoteur, cannonization of the folk culture, nationalization of the peasants in the 19th century and the role of ethnology. This vividly written text offers an exceptional insight



into Croatian ethnological developments in the past century, as well as into crucial ruptures in Croatian society which have had important repercussions on ethnological discipline."--Provided by publisher.