O jedné zapomenuté cikánské národopisné skice: J. Vlach a jeho Cikáni

• Authors: Marek Jakoubek

Title variants

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OF J. VLACH’S FORGOTTEN ETHNOGRAPHICAL STUDY ON GYPSIES

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

Jaroslav Vlach was a teacher at a secondary grammar school in the Prague quarter of Smíchov. His field of expertise was history and geography and as a teacher he taught subjects on these topics. As was common in those days, J. Vlach followed contemporary Czech and foreign publications and discussions in his field. He himself was a prolific author, too. Apart from his writings connected directly to his profession, his works were mostly related to (geographically oriented) ethnography in a very wide scope. The study we present is a part of Vlach’s work People of Europe (Národové evropští), published in 1908. Vlach’s historical-ethnographical study contains a huge sum of information of various categories. It covers topics of history, ethnography, or religiosity, and a sociologist or political scientists would not be disappointed, either. Nevertheless, our aim is not to analyze Vlach’s text; by publishing this edition we want primarily to remind this forgotten study and make it available to other scholars, and to enable them to make use of Vlach’s text in their work. We are convinced that this already more than one hundred years old study is worth it.

Keywords

EN

J. Vlach; People of Europe; Gypsies

Discipline

• ETHNOLOGY: ETHNOLOGY

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Studia Ethnologica Pragensia
• Year: 2015
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 13-24

Contributors

author

Marek Jakoubek

• Ústav etnologie, Filozofická fakulta, Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Czech Republic