Lazy, Stupid, Temperamental? The use of Stereotypes about the Dalmatian Mentality Cover Image

Lijeni, glupi, temperamentni? Upotreba stereotipova o dalmatinskom mentalitetu
Lazy, Stupid, Temperamental? The use of Stereotypes about the Dalmatian Mentality

Author(s): Mira Ljubić Lorger
Subject(s): Ethnohistory, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Sociology of Culture
Published by: Institut za etnologiju i folkloristiku
Keywords: mentality; Dalmatia; stereotypes; Buffoons; postcolonialism;

Summary/Abstract: Lately, all sorts of events taking place in Dalmatia are being explained by an alleged „Dalmatian mentality“. This paper ia an attempt to answer the questions of what the notion of mentality should be, whether it has any analytical value or whether it belongs to the obsolete and (justifiably) rejected model of the society, and whether the alleged characteristics of the „Dalmatian mentality“ are just prejudices and stereotypes, or autostereotypes, and if they are, what their purpose is – primarily their purpose in daily politics.

  • Issue Year: 52/2015
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 7-29
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: Croatian