<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> The article discusses the influence of macro-social processes and issues of assimilation, acculturation, ethnic and linguistic revitalization on the example of one particular group of German woodsmen in the social context of Western Slovakia. It attempts to analyse how historical and political changes during the 20th century influenced changes in the structure, system of values and hierarchy of ethnic group and whether that helped or prevented the assimilation of the group’s members. The article also attempts to indicate the possibilities of today’s ethnic and linguistic revitalization.</p></abstract>

The article discusses the influence of macro-social processes and issues of assimilation, acculturation, ethnic and linguistic revitalization on the example of one particular group of German woodsmen in the social context of Western Slovakia. It attempts to analyse how historical and political changes during the 20th century influenced changes in the structure, system of values and hierarchy of ethnic group and whether that helped or prevented the assimilation of the group’s members. The article also attempts to indicate the possibilities of today’s ethnic and linguistic revitalization.

Study Possibilities of Present-Day Ethnic Revitalization of German Woodsmen in the Little Carpathians

Department of Ethnology and World Studies, University of SS. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava

Ethnologia Actualis

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The article discusses the influence of macro-social processes and issues of assimilation, acculturation, ethnic and linguistic revitalization on the example of...

Study Possibilities of Present-Day Ethnic Revitalization of German Woodsmen in the Little Carpathians

Published Online: Mar 11, 2015

Page range: 97 - 108

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/eas-2015-0005

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