Politics and Culture in Czech Ethnography

Bibliographic Data

ID2582049
AuthorsDavid Z Scheffel (corresponding author), David Scheffel, Josef Kandert
Year1994
Volume67
Issue1
Pages15
Publication date1994-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAnthropological Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0003-5491 • E-ISSN: 1534-1518
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/3317274
OpenAlexW2320373871
LanguageEN
Citations received6

The disintegration of state socialism in Eastern Europe has freed local academics from the rigid Party discipline which demanded that scholarship serve ideology. For Czech ethnographers the new freedom has meant a re-orientation towards western-style ethnology/social anthropology and a rejection of the politicized scholarship of the socialist era as an alien element forcibly imposed from the outside. This article reviews the history of Czech ethnography and demonstrates that the politicization of scholarship attributed to state socialism extends to the very roots of the discipline in nineteenth-century bourgeois nationalism. The preoccupation with native studies is identified as the main source of political bias and one which facilitated the acceptance of state-controlled scholarship during the socialist era. [Czech ethnography, anthropology and communism, Slavic studies]

Czech · Ethnography · Linguistics · Media studies · Political culture · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropology · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · European Linguistics and Anthropology · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Romani and Gypsy Studies

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