Original scientific paper

National Versus Regional Identity: the Case of Orawa

Ryszard Kantor ; Jagiellonian University, Department of ethnology, Krakow, Poland

Abstract

The author aims to present the formation process of ethnic and national consciousness among the inhabitants of Orawa over the past one hundred years, paying special attention to the external factors influencing this process. Against this background, an attempt is made to explain the present state of split consciousness of the Polish Orawa population and predict, as far as possible, the future development of national consciousness in the region. It is claimed that national consciousness can be replaced with "substitute" declarations of regional identity only under exceptional conditions and on a short-term basis.

Keywords

national identity; regional identity; Orawa region; Ppolish-Slowakian border; national consciousness

Hrčak ID:

68241

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/68241

Publication date:

7.12.1995.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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