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ETHNIC STEREOTYPES IN EARLY EUROPEAN ETHNOGRAPHIES: A CASE STUDY OF THE HABSBURG ADRIATIC C. 1770-18151

Catherine Carmichael


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Abstract

The ethnological writings from the late eighteenth century noticed that there were cultural differences among peoples. Those differences were attributed to genetic factors and to innate national spirit of each nation, both of which are responsible for a nation's basic characteristics. The paper deals primarily with the reports on Austrian Istria, written between 1770 and 1815, in which stereotypes about the population are fixed and turned into clichés the same way as about the population of other Slavic countries. This perception of Istria affected the political programmes of all ethnic groups that lived there, as well as the later division of Istria.

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Hrčak ID:

45080

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/45080

Publication date:

19.12.1996.

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