Original scientific paper

Ethnos and Culture

Olga Supek ; Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

In the first part of the paper the author examines three approaches to the question of ethnos which likewise represent three chronological phases in ethnology and cultural anthropology: i.e. ethnos as a natural phenomenon, ethnos as a function of social integration, and ethnos as a marker for categories of people in the global political-economic system. The author continues by examining definitions of culture and ethnos, as well as the relationship between them. Finally, she discusses the historical dimensions of ethnos – which is seen as a constant in the anthropological sense, although it manifests itself in different ways within diverse historical forms of social organisation.

Keywords

ethnos; culture

Hrčak ID:

128048

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/128048

Publication date:

29.9.1989.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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