Národopisná věda a příbuzné obory. Symbióza a konflikty

• Authors: Miroslav Válka

Title variants

EN

Ethnology and related disciplines. Symbiosis and conflicts.

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

Although each independent scientific discipline has its own subject matter, a worked out system and specific methods and methodology of research, it is impossible to avoid cooperation with other scientific disciplines. The interdisciplinary cooperation brings new findings and provides new stimulations, therefore it is beneficial to both cooperating disciplines. This paper summarizes the way how ethnology faces out the interdisciplinary cooperation. At the end of the 19th century, ethnology detached itself from the historical, philological and literary research as a specialized socio-scientific discipline due to its orientation on the culture of pre-industrial village, where the roots of national identity were searched for. during the interwar period, cooperation with geography was developed and resulted in the ethnographical atlases. Functional structuralism, which had been worked out in the field of linguistics and literary studies, asserted itself in the folklore research. After 1948, ethnography was declared as a historical discipline, pluralism of scientific methods disappeared and Soviet ethnography became a universal model. In the 1960’s, when the political conditions became rather released, sociology (as an empirical science) was rehabilitated. Ethnography, turning its attention to the problems of the modern society and urban milieu, began to solve the issue of the barrier between both disciplines. Along with the change of the political system, the year 1989 brought many social changes which influenced Czechoslovak ethnography. Its name was changed to ethnology/European ethnology, which was realized in the whole Central European region. Cooperation with the newly constituted sociocultural anthropology became a topical problem.

Keywords

EN

ethnology; interdisciplinary cooperation; history of the scientific discipline; art history; sociology; geography; archeology; social and cultural anthropology

Discipline

• ETHNOLOGY: ETHNOLOGY

• Publisher: Czech Ethnological Society
• Journal: Národopisný věstník
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 26_(68)
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 18-29
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Miroslav Válka

• Česká národopisná společnost, z. s., Národní třída 3, 117 20 Praha 1, Czech Republic