Tři přístupy k puplům národů: primordialisticko-modernistický diskurz prizmatem aktivity a objektivity etnicity

• Authors: Adam Horálek

Title variants

EN

Three approaches to the navel points of the nations: primordialist-modernist discourse seen through the prism of activity and objectivity of the ethnicity

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The paper examines theoretical discourses of ethnicity and has three main objectives: (1) to categorize and compare three academic approaches to-wards ethnicity, nation and nationalism, (2) to identify the core distinction between ethnic and national identity, and (3) to analyze the differences between approaches through activity and objectivity of ethnicity. The traditional distinction between primordialist and modernist/situationist approaches is enhanced by adding the ethicist approach to the interjacent boundary. There are three core lines of distinctions between these approaches. Firstly, it is, more or less, the dis-tinction between primordiality of ethnicity and modernity of nation, not primordiality and modernity itself, which divides the discussed approaches. Secondly, most academic theories, regardless of their background, interpret the ethnicity (nation) as situational rather than objective or subjective phenomenon. Lastly, it is the scale of activity of ethnicity (activity of individuals - components - systems) which differs among the theories.

Keywords

EN

Ethnicism; ethnicity; modernism; nationalism; nation; primordialism

Discipline

• ETHNOLOGY: ETHNOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Český lid: etnologický časopis (Český lid: Ethnological journal)
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 99
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 23-43
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Adam Horálek

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