title: Slavic Ethnopolities: A few Remarks on the «Tribal Question» as Answer to the Questionnaire of «Studia Slavica et Balcanica Petropolitana»
metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Fokt, Krzysztof
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2016-08-11T10:51:16Z
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2016-08-11T10:51:16Z
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2016
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/2580
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The texts attempts to answer the questions raised by the Editors of «Studia Slavica et Balcanica
  Petropolitana» in their questionnaire, focusing on the Western Slavdom. The main assumptions of the paper
  is that there is no definition of Slavic tribe that would correspond directly with the past reality. Due to the
  scarcity of sources we are condemned to use some conventionalized terms instead and that is how the term
  «tribe» functions for the Western Slavdom: as de facto synonym of the notions of «ethnos» or «people».
  Therefore, almost every social group which had some common name that could have been comprehended
  as an ethnonym — only apart from the huge dynastic polities which finally evolved into early states — may
  be called a «tribe» in the present Polish, Czech or German scholarship. In the paper, attempts were made
  also to divide the Western Slavdom into four distinctive zones representing various patterns of ethnopolitical
  structures: the «limes» zone (filled with gentes comparable to other gentile peoples of late Antiquity and
  early Middle Ages), the interior (dominated probably by some segmentary societies being not very active in
  warfare and trade and for a long time remaining «invisible» for the sources as ethnopolitical structures), the
  maritime area (early active in trade and warfare but not divided — as far as we know — into peoples/tribes)
  and the transition zone between the «limes» and interior areas (embracing both Lusatias and the left-bank
  Silesia).
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Studia Slavica et Balcanica Petropolitana;Issue 1
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Slavs
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Western Slavdom
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: ethnic identity
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: political structures
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: tribe
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Slavic Ethnopolities: A few Remarks on the «Tribal Question» as Answer to the Questionnaire of «Studia Slavica et Balcanica Petropolitana»
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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