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Ethnological Discourses
Ethnological Discourses

Author(s): Vitomir Belaj, Olaf Bockhorn, Julian V. Bromlej, Margarita S. Kašuba, Radoslav Katičić, Anto Knežević
Contributor(s): Ljubica Katunar (Translator), Jadranka Puntarović-Vlahinić (Translator), Jelka Vince Pallua (Translator)
Subject(s): Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
Published by: Sveučilište u Zagrebu, Filozofski fakultet
Keywords: ethnology; Olaf Bockhorn; Julian V. Bromlej; Margarita S. Kasuba; Radoslav Katičić; Anto Knežević;

Summary/Abstract: The editors of Studia ethnologica wish to initiate discussion about a theoretical basis of ethnological science. The editor’s (Vitomir BELAJ) Plaidoyer stressed the fact that ethnology developed on the basis of two different definitions of its subject matter in one it is defined as gens, kin, tribe - a group of people more or less concious of belonging to the ethnos (A. F. Kollär 1783), and in the other as populus, the "lower" social status (West European ethnology based on works of the French illuminators). Ethnology as a historical science concerned with the ethnic (if it wishes to retain its name) must not, according to the editor, neglect the idea of Kollär’s definition.

  • Issue Year: 1989
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 41-42
  • Page Count: 2
  • Language: English