The Historical Lexicon of Nationalism: Ethnicity, Ethnos, Race, Volksstamm: Historical Footnotes Cover Image

Historyczny słownik nacjonalizmu: etniczność, ethnos, rasa, Volksstamm: Przypisy historyczne
The Historical Lexicon of Nationalism: Ethnicity, Ethnos, Race, Volksstamm: Historical Footnotes

Author(s): Guido Franzinetti
Subject(s): History, Theoretical Linguistics, Sociology, Ethnohistory, Social history, Semantics, Social development, Nationalism Studies
Published by: Instytut Slawistyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: historical lexicon; nationalism; race; Volksstamm; ethnos; Habsburg era; Yugoslavia;

Summary/Abstract: This paper is primarily concerned with the etymology of some terms in the historical lexicon of nationalism: ethnicity, ethnos, race, Volksstamm. It is argued that European and US usages of race are radically different. It is also argued that the Habsburg-era term Volksstamm was the basis for the term narodnost in Socialist Yugoslavia.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 54-62
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: English