Original scientific paper

Kata Jajnčerova. Historicizing Women’s Writing in Croatian Ethnology (Summary)

Sanja Potkonjak ; Odsjek za etnologiju i kulturnu antropologiju, Filozofski fakultet, Zagreb

Abstract

The paper explores the work of one of the first Croatian women ethnographers, Kata Jajnčerova. Although a women of the previous century and a peasant women of limited education destined to become the first ethnographic sight witness, Kata Jajnčerova stands as a cornerstone in nativistic teleologies of nation formation, as well as a scholarly exemplar of an early self-explanatory “native” ethnographic correspondent. The aim of the paper is to frame the obsessive topics and techniques of Jajnčerova’s authority. The paper focuses on the mechanisms by which a native subject wishes for and constructs the emancipation of the peasantry from the epistemic obliteration by dominant political narratives – both by introducing the idea of voicing the experience and by solidifying a narrative to become a written testimony of the folk.

Keywords

Kata Jajnčerova; experience; ethnology; native

Hrčak ID:

75295

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/75295

Publication date:

27.12.2011.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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