We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
Chorwackich etnologów i ludowców marzenie o dotarciu do źródła.
- Authors
Falski, Maciej
- Abstract
In the first half of the 20th century, the connection between ethnology and politics in Croatia was exceptionally strong. Ethnology has become a tool to build national cohesion, and the main discourse is sought in the authentic aspects of Croatian culture, which could distinguish it in particular from Serbian or, in general, from Yugoslav culture. The central category of discourse, both ethnologic as well as the political, is the concept of source. A key theorist and activist who developed the concept of authentic Croatian cultural sources, and entered it in the political agenda, was Antun Radić. Together with his brother Stjepan, he founded the peasant party, which after 1918 became the Croats' main political force. The Radić brothers pointed out that only folklore preserves cultural purity, and thus peasants should be the source of the resurgence in Croatian identity. During the short lifetime of the Croatian Banovina (1939-1941), this policy and its accompanying ideas became the official ideology, marked by the extraordinary influence of ethnology. This paper points out the dangerous aspects of the idea of source, related to the concept of closed, exclusive culture exposed to arbitrary purification.
- Subjects
CROATIA; ETHNOLOGY; CROATIAN politics &; government; NATIONALISM; CULTURE; CULTURAL relativism; CULTURAL identity; HRVATSKA seljacka stranka
- Publication
Slavia Meridionalis, 2014, Vol 14, p288
- ISSN
1233-6173
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.11649/sm.2014.014