Original scientific paper

Female Identity in Orubica

Tomislav Pletenac ; Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

Ethnography often deals with identity, a double defined term - identity is always connected with Otherness. But this is not the problem only on the level of analysis, there is also a problem of writing, rewriting and representation of culture. Ethnographer must be conscious that he/she is a part of his/her own social epistemology in which used cultural terms have their history, tradition and above all axiomatic nature. Ethnology often reinforces this social epistemology through the way of writing about unfamiliar (geographical, social or historical) groups and their cultures. The author also found himself entangled in different social and ethnographical prejudice on the position of women in pre-WWII peasant society which was broken through his field work in Slavonian village of Orubica.

Keywords

female identity; Orubica; Slavonija; problem of writing of culture

Hrčak ID:

48550

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/48550

Publication date:

2.2.2002.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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