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Ethnology, Myth and Politics : Anthropologizing Croatian Ethnology.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Progress in European Ethnology SeriesPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2004Copyright date: ©2004Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (165 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781351938877
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ethnology, Myth and PoliticsDDC classification:
  • 305.80094972
LOC classification:
  • 2003062846
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Editor's Preface -- Author's Preface -- 1 Between Ethnicity and Nation -- 2 Vuk Karadžić: Past and Present or On the History of Folk Culture -- 3 The Zadruga Between Real and Imagined Order -- 4 Antun Radić: Peasants into Croats -- 5 Distancing Ethnology from Politics -- 6 Ethnology During Socialism and After -- 7 Ethnology and the Ethnomyth -- 8 Anthropologizing Ethnology -- 9 The Ethno-Anthropologist in his Native Field: to Observe or to Witness? -- 10 The ICTY in The Hague and Anthropological Expertise -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Written by the most prominent Croatian ethnologist/anthropologist of her time, Dunja Rihtman-Augustin (recently deceased) offers a critical overview of her country's ethnological tradition and its developments. Within ten essays, this book (compiled and completed by Jasna Capo Zmegac) sheds light on a series of research questions and problems, and makes crucial remarks regarding the relationship between ethnology and politics. The volume provides exceptional insight not only into Croatian ethnology but also into the key ruptures in Croatian society in general.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Editor's Preface -- Author's Preface -- 1 Between Ethnicity and Nation -- 2 Vuk Karadžić: Past and Present or On the History of Folk Culture -- 3 The Zadruga Between Real and Imagined Order -- 4 Antun Radić: Peasants into Croats -- 5 Distancing Ethnology from Politics -- 6 Ethnology During Socialism and After -- 7 Ethnology and the Ethnomyth -- 8 Anthropologizing Ethnology -- 9 The Ethno-Anthropologist in his Native Field: to Observe or to Witness? -- 10 The ICTY in The Hague and Anthropological Expertise -- Bibliography -- Index.

Written by the most prominent Croatian ethnologist/anthropologist of her time, Dunja Rihtman-Augustin (recently deceased) offers a critical overview of her country's ethnological tradition and its developments. Within ten essays, this book (compiled and completed by Jasna Capo Zmegac) sheds light on a series of research questions and problems, and makes crucial remarks regarding the relationship between ethnology and politics. The volume provides exceptional insight not only into Croatian ethnology but also into the key ruptures in Croatian society in general.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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