Published: 2013-01-01

Czech urban ethnology (anthropology) – birth, socio-political and professionally scientific starting point, main topics of research

Blanka Soukupová

Abstract

Urban ethnology comprises one of the most promising subdisciplines of our field. It is possible to date the beginnings of Czech urban ethnology to the first half of the 1990s, while this new specialization was formed in the world in the 1970s. At the beginning of the 1990s, interethnic relations in the city became the crucial problem in establishing urban ethnology. In the mid ‘90s Czech urban ethnology broadened research on interethnic relations in the city, which until then had been their main interest, to include other topics. At the threshold of the 21st century, then, a solid view of the city was finally achieved. Symbolism connected with the city, construction of its importance, structured memory of the inhabitants of cities and their role in the creation of urban identities, sacral and profane places in the city, issues linked with myths in cities and about cities became the center of attention of urban ethnologists. Thus, at the threshold of the 21st century, the approach to urban ethnology is holistic

Keywords:

Czech urban ethnology, city, inhabitants, symbolism, urban identity

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Soukupová, B. (2013). Czech urban ethnology (anthropology) – birth, socio-political and professionally scientific starting point, main topics of research. Journal of Urban Ethnology, 11, 9–24. Retrieved from https://journals.iaepan.pl/jue/article/view/648

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