Open AccessCzechoslovak Republic and the formation of ethnographic science during the “First Republic” (1918-1938): Part II
Author(s) -
Miroslav Válka
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
glasnik etnografskog instituta/glasnik etnografskog instituta sanu
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2334-8259
pISSN - 0350-0861
DOI - 10.2298/gei2002379v
Subject(s) - ethnography , czech , slovak , slavic languages , politics , interwar period , world war ii , political science , sociology , ethnology , history , anthropology , law , classics , linguistics , philosophy
Our target is to assess how the Czech and the Slovak ethnography developed in the period of the First Czechoslovak Republic (1918-1938), whether it displayed international connotations, and to what extent it responded to the common European development of this discipline. Research contacts between Slavic ethnographers and geographers influenced one of the ethnographic research lines in Czechoslovakia, and the evidence for this are the application of Jovan Cvijic?s Anthropogeographic School and the application of cultural and geographical research line in interwar Czechoslovakia?s science. Between the world wars, Czechoslovak ethnographers paid attention to Slovakia and to Carpathian Ruthenia, where forms of traditional folk culture still actively lived on. Ethnography in the interwar Czechoslovakia can be considered to be an important part of evolving European ethnology. Unfortunately, this advancement was interrupted by political development after World War II.