The anthropogeographic method and its place in the development of Czech/Czechoslovak ethnology
Modern Czech and Slovak ethnology was constituted by Karel Chotek (1881-1967) and Drahomíra Stránská (1899-1964), among others, with a notable contribution by geographer Jiří Král (1893-1975). Methodological basis for their research was the anthropogeographic method of Jovan Cvijić and i...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Institute of Ethnography, SASA, Belgrade
2018-01-01
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| Series: | Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU |
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| Online Access: | http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0350-0861/2018/0350-08611801089V.pdf |
| Summary: | Modern Czech and Slovak ethnology was constituted by Karel Chotek (1881-1967)
and Drahomíra Stránská (1899-1964), among others, with a notable
contribution by geographer Jiří Král (1893-1975). Methodological basis for
their research was the anthropogeographic method of Jovan Cvijić and
inspiration by his works. In some countries this research orientation was
aimed at the creation of the ethnographic atlas. In former Czechoslovakia
preliminary activities were organized by D. Stránská, but political
circumstances of that time prevented the finalization of the atlas. Her
successors, associates of the Institute for Ethnography and Folklore of the
Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, did not finalize this endeavor either,
since the activities on the Ethnographic atlas were removed from the program
of basic scientific research after 1970 (during the period of the so-called
„normalization“ of political relations). Activities on the Ethnographic
atlas were revived after 1989 at the Institute of Ethnology of the Czech
Academy of Sciences, with the concept which was, naturally, a matter of
discussions and controversies. |
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| ISSN: | 0350-0861 2334-8259 |