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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rihtman-Augustin, Dunja, author.

Contributor:

Capo, Jasna, editor.

Series:

Progress in European ethnology.

Progress in European Ethnology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--Croatia.

Ethnology.

Croatia--Politics and government.

Croatia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (165 pages).

Place of Publication:

London : Taylor and Francis, 2017.

Summary:

"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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

First published 2004 by Ashgate Publishing.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-351-93886-X

1-315-25604-5

1-351-93887-8

9781315256047

OCLC:

993637432