Struggles for the Folk. Politics of Culture in Czechoslovak Ethnography, 1940s-1950s
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2156377 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jan Grill (0000-0002-3467-3735, Institute for Social Anthropology, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 619-638 |
| Publication date | 2015-10-20 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History and Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0275-7206 • E-ISSN: 1477-2612 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02757206.2015.1070847 |
| OpenAlex | W2194705202 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 25 |
Focusing on politics of culture in early socialist era, this article explores struggles for imposing particular visions of "folk" during the revolutionary zeal characterizing the post-1948 period's development in the discipline of Czechoslovak ethnography. It examines the self-proclaimed turn from previous ethnographic traditions, accused of bourgeois nationalism, to socialist orientation towards studying "true folk". By tracing struggles around the re-conceptualization of constitutive criteria and boundaries defining the essential object of ethnographic inquiry, the socialist ethnographers readjusted to the changes by focusing on more "progressive" traditions and shifted towards the "working-class" seen as possessing revolutionary spirit and the true authentic essence of the nation. The article argues that the new ethnographic wave ultimately re-inscribed the essentialist categories they virtually combatted by embedding them within the same structural framework rooted in the national order of things
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| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,63 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2024 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |