Med univerzalizmom in pluralizmom: Etnografske reprezentacije in identifikacijske prakse v prostoru Alpe-Jadran
Between Universalism and Pluralism: Ethnographic Representations and Identification Practices in the Alps-Adriatic Region

Summary/Abstract: The paper examines writing strategies, rhetorical questions, and descriptive styles in nineteenth-century ethnographic texts from the Alpine–Adriatic region within the Habsburg Empire. Based on four case studies – the Carinthian critiques, the historiography of the Austrian Littoral, the nationalisation of ethnography in Carniola, and broader synthetic works such as Rudolf’s Kronprinzenwerk and Vivante’s Irredentismo Adriatico – it analyses how rhetorical practices navigated between imperial unification and national differentiation. Influenced by Enlightenment universalism and Romantic pluralism, these practices transformed modes of identification: from portrayals of the exotic “Other” to the formation of cultural subjects.

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