Etnolog između točnog i ispravnog
Ethnologist between What is Correct and What is Right

Summary/Abstract: The article questions the elements of ethnology’s ethical capacity, with the special focus on the research and presentations of historical culture of clothing and folk costumes. All disciplines in the area of humanities share the dilemma of the restorer’s stratigraphy, which implies ethical statements. In addition, the significance of craftsperson’s ethical capacity and especially of the folk costume, is embedded in the roots of ethnology. These formative circumstances of ethnology, inherited together with the definition of the research subject, do not appear as aggravating circumstances to be removed in the present time, but as epistemological and methodological qualifications for future research. Guided by Lou Taylor’s analysis, previous relations between science and power are problematized through the depolitzation through self censorship and the avoidance of stratigraphic analysis of cultural processes. Ethical connotation in ethnological work represents a disciplinary advantage and provides a promising interpretative path.

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