title: Between Science and Ideology. History of German Speaking Ethnography of Czech Lands
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metadata.value: Lozoviuk, Petr
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2021-02-09T17:46:55Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2021-02-09T17:46:55Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-12
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metadata.value: Lozoviuk Р. Between Science and Ideology. History of German Speaking Ethnography of Czech Lands. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2020, vol. 65, issue 4, рp. 1162–1185.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu02.2020.409
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/23683
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The study focuses on the chronological development of the ethnography of Germans living in
  the Czech Lands. The emphasis is put on its institutionalization and association with ideological
  concepts of the time. The ethnographical interest in Germans living in the Czech Lands
  dates back to the beginning of the 19th century. It focused on the lifestyle of the geographically
  and linguistically divided population. The disappearing traditions maintained in village
  communities were considered the most appropriate subject of study. After the establishment
  of the Czechoslovak Republic, German ethnographers concentrated on topics related to the
  strengthening of identity of the new German society which became part of the Republic. This
  development enhanced the prestige of ethnography, which facilitated its institutionalization
  in the academic environment. During the interwar years, ethnography was considered an appropriate
  academic discipline that could legitimize many politically-related claims, and was,
  therefore, expected to solve many societal isssues. In the years 1938–1945, the ideological
  instrumentalization of ethnography in the Czech-German environment reached a qualitatively
  new level. This was reflected in the focus of research of the newly established academic
  institutions, which were supposed to — with the help of ethnographic methods — contribute
  to the “scientific” legitimacy of the expansion plans of the Nazi regime already implemented
  or being prepared at that time. A strong inclination towards ideologically formulated “applied”
  science led to and in the first half of the 1940s eventually resulted in the explicitly racist
  research on the issue of “blood mixing” and the active participation of many ethnographers
  in the preparation, and partly also in the realization of the Nazi idea of a “new Europe”. The
  history of Sudeten-German ethnography was terminated by the displacement of the German
  population from what is now the Czech Republic in the second half of the 1940s.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
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: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 65; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Sudeten-German ethnography
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: history of ethnography
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: ideology of science
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Czech Lands
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Between Science and Ideology. History of German Speaking Ethnography of Czech Lands
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
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