Title:

Problems with minorities, minorities with problems

Subtitle:

Ethnologia Polona 27 (2006)

Creator:

Derlicki, Jarosław

Publisher:

Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology Polish Academy of Sciences

Place of publishing:

Warszawa

Date issued/created:

2006

Description:

24 cm

Type of object:

Journal/Article

Subject and Keywords:

minority studies ; ethnic/diasporas ; collective memory

Abstract:

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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Relation:

Ethnologia Polona

Volume:

27

Start page:

41

End page:

51

Resource type:

Text

Detailed Resource Type:

Article

Format:

application/pdf

Resource Identifier:

0137-4079

Source:

IAiE PAN, call no. P 366 ; IAiE PAN, call no. P 367 ; IAiE PAN, call no. P 368 ; click here to follow the link

Language:

eng

Rights:

Rights Reserved - Restricted Access

Terms of use:

Copyright-protected material. Access only on terminals at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, may be used within the limits of statutory user freedoms.

Digitizing institution:

Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Original in:

Library of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Access:

Closed