Anthropology of the City: A Social Viewpoint, Main Tendencies, Perspectives and National Traditions of Research.

An example of Czech Urban Anthropology

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  • Blanka Soukupová

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14712/12128112.3607

Klíčová slova:

Czech urban anthropology, city, folk, proletariat

Abstrakt

The text presents a brief outline of the development of Czech urban anthropology from its beginning in the 1950s until the present. It follows the viewpoints of this highly promising discipline and its individual stages of development. It focuses particular attention on the situation after 1989. While in the first decade after the Velvet Revolution research on multiethnicity and multiculturality in the city prevailed, today anthropologists have proceeded to try to explain the city as a whole. At the same time the text illustrates how the birth of urban anthropology was related to a change in the understanding of the key concept of Czech ethnography – folk – and to a change of point of view of researches on the city. From the ’50s until the ’80s the proletariat was regarded for ideological reasons as the core of urbanized space; urban anthropology thus coincided with workers’ ethnography.

Biografie autora

Blanka Soukupová

was born in 1965. She is a researcher and teacher at the Faculty of Humanities of Charles University in Prague. In 2008 she became associate professor at the Philosophical Faculty of Charles University, Department of Economics and Social Studies. Her specializations are collective identity, the Central European city, and anti-Semitism. Her publications include: Modernizace, identita, stereotyp, konflikt. Společnost po hilsneriádě [Modernization, Identity, Stereotype, Conflict. Society after the Hilsner Affair], Bratislava 2004 (with Peter Salner); Velké a malé českožidovské příběhy z doby intenzivní naděje [Great and Petty Czech-Jewish Stories: from the Days of Intense Hope], Brati slava 2005; The Central European City as a Space for Dialogue? (Examples: Prague and Warsaw), Bratislava 2006 (with A. Stawarz, Z. Jurková and H. Novotná); Město, identita, paměť [City, Identity, Memory], Bratislava 2007 (with H. Novotná, Z. Jurková and A. Stawarz); Židovská menšina za druhé republiky [Jewish Minority during the  Second Republic], Praha 2007 (with M. Pojar and M. Zahradníková); Židovská menšina v Československu po druhé světové válce [Jewish Minority after the Second World War], Praha 2009 (with P. Salner and M. Ludvíková); Evropské město: Identita, symbol, mýtus [European City: Identity, Symbol, Myth], Bratislava 2010 (with H. Novotná and Z. Jurková).

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Publikováno

2010-07-01

Jak citovat

Soukupová, B. (2010). Anthropology of the City: A Social Viewpoint, Main Tendencies, Perspectives and National Traditions of Research.: An example of Czech Urban Anthropology. Lidé města, 12(2), 249-271. https://doi.org/10.14712/12128112.3607

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