"Majú inú mentalitu." Esencialistické reprezentácie o Gabčíkovských žiadateľoch o azyl

• Authors: Norbert Maur

Title variants

EN

"They have different mentality". Essentialistic representations about Gabčíkovo asylum seekers

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

In this paper author focuses on mental representation of ethnic and racial groups in Gabčíkovo village in Slovakia. The objective is to show, that to explain ethnic and racial classification, we need to regard two factors. The first one is social interactions. It means the social, cultural, historical and political conditions of social phenomenon. The second is the cognitive processes of the mind: in what ways the human mind operates particular external information. To explain ethnic and racial classification, the author uses the framework of cognitive anthropology, in particular theory of folk sociology.

Keywords

EN

refugees; cognitive process; essentialism; ethnicity; race; inference

Discipline

• ETHNOLOGY: ETHNOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Český lid: etnologický časopis (Český lid: Ethnological journal)
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 96
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 247-262
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Norbert Maur

• Český lid, redakce, Etnologický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Na Florenci 3, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic