ETNICKÁ IDENTITA, KOGNITÍVNY PRÍSTUP A TERÉNNY VÝSKUM: AKO NA TO?

• Authors: Kanovský Martin

Title variants

EN

Ethnic identity, cognitive approach, and fieldwork: Know-how?

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

In this article, author tries to show that to explain ethnic identities, we need to evoke both anthropological and psychological explorations. The recent research results in cognitive psychology are provided, namely, the psychological evidence concerning the essentialist reasoning about social groups in everyday thought. Some empirical data from the field-work in Western Ukraine (Transcarpathia) are presented and discussed.

Keywords

EN

ETHNICITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ESSENTIALISM; SOCIAL IDENTITY

Discipline

• ETHNOLOGY: ETHNOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Ethnology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovak Ethnological Society, and Slovak National Museum - Ethnological Museum (in Martin)
• Journal: Etnologické rozpravy (Ethnological Disputes)
• Year: 2004
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 11-24
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Kanovský Martin

• M. Kanovsky, no address given, contact the journal editor

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

05SKAAAA00551396