Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology Polish Academy of Sciences
This article consists of two parts. The first one deals with various methodological problems concerning the minority studies. The author presents the relationships between terms such as ‘poly’- and ‘multi-ethnic’ as well as ethnic/national minority and diaspora. By referring to the ‘myth of ethnic election’ and ‘collective memory’ he shows how minorities survive as ethnic units. With regard to the studies of identity, he points out several mistakes social scientists make in their approach. The second part discusses the problems of minorities. The author presents state-minority relations in the means of state approach towards its minorities and minorities. response to the state policies. The construction of minority on the institutional level is being widely discussed in terms of acquiring the ‘national culture’. The last part of the article is about various local cultures/societies existing in the frames of one minority
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Derlicki, Jarosław, 2006, Problems with minorities, minorities with problems | Feb 2, 2022 |
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