The Language of Compliance, The Practice of Resistance: A Data-Driven Study of Declarative Ideological Terminology in Slovak Ethnographic Research (1948–1973)
The Language of Compliance, The Practice of Resistance: A Data-Driven Study of Declarative Ideological Terminology in Slovak Ethnographic Research (1948–1973)

Summary/Abstract: The study examines the integration of Marxist-Leninist ideology into Slovak ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 1948 and 1973, focusing on the declarative use of ideologically charged terms. It analyzes descriptive metadata, primarily thematic subject headings, of the Collection of Research Reports housed at the Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology Slovak Academy of Sciences. Advanced statistical methods, including the chi-squared test, frequency analysis, co-occurrence analysis, and TF-IDF, are employed to identify the use of declarative terms within the documentation of ethnographic research reports from the period. The study aims to quantitatively assess how ethnographers responded to the political pressures of the socialist era and how this response is reflected in their research reports and metadata entries. The findings contribute to an understanding of the complex interplay between ethnography and political ideology in socialist-era Slovakia.

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