Academia without Contention? The Legacy of Czechoslovak Ethnography and Folklore Studies in Czech Anthropology

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Result on the web

<a href="http://sreview.soc.cas.cz/cs/issue/195-sociologicky-casopis-czech-sociological-review-3-2018/3818" target="_blank" >http://sreview.soc.cas.cz/cs/issue/195-sociologicky-casopis-czech-sociological-review-3-2018/3818</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.13060/00380288.2018.54.3.410" target="_blank" >10.13060/00380288.2018.54.3.410</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Academia without Contention? The Legacy of Czechoslovak Ethnography and Folklore Studies in Czech Anthropology

Original language description

One issue of the post-socialist transformation of Czech higher education has been the many attempts to establish an independent discipline of sociocultural anthropology. As many observers noted, the establishment of a fully-fledged Czech anthropology after the collapse of communism in 1989 proved to be a rather difficult task. Many accounts offered various explanations for the uneasy state of emerging Czech anthropology, but none of them focused on the specific academic practices that anthropology inherited from its predecessor-Czechoslovak ethnography. While anthropological names, books, and theories entered wide circulation and have become a regular part of curricula since the 1990s, the specific way ethnography is practiced has remained unchanged. The article looks at the Department of Ethnography and Folklore Studies at Charles University, which, in the 1990s, became one of the departments where students were able to take courses in anthropology. While the students were given an introduction to anthropological knowledge, they were not led to adopt the specific set of scholarly attitudes that are intrinsic to sociocultural anthropology, the most important of which is a specific approach to academic debates. It could be concluded that this uneven distribution of academic expertise, this disunion between knowledge and non-knowledge, may have severely delayed the development of an autonomous tradition of Czech sociocultural anthropology.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50404 - Anthropology, ethnology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review

ISSN

0038-0288

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

54

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

28

Pages from-to

343-370

UT code for WoS article

000443732500002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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