African studies in Czechslovakia: achievements and perspectives

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Title:	African studies in Czechslovakia: achievements and perspectives
Author:	Skalnik, P.
Year:	1969
Periodical:	African Studies Bulletin (ISSN 0568-1537)
Volume:	12
Issue:	2
Pages:	213-222
Language:	English
Geographic terms:	Czechoslovakia Africa
Subject:	research
External link:	https://www.jstor.org/stable/523166
Abstract:	A relatively extensive background to the only recently developed scientific research of African societies and cultures in Czechslovakia has been shaped by travelers like Dr. Emil Holub, Remedius Prutky, Dr. Stecker, Cenek Paclt. Before World War II the professors of Semitology at Charles University, Prague, R. Dvorak, R. Ruzicka, A. Musil started to study Ethiopian languages and history. The well-known Austrian scholar Dr. Pavel Sebesta was of Czech origin. African studies as a complex discipline, comprising studies of history, sociology, economics, anthropology, linguistics, politics of the peoples in the areas of sub-Saharan Africa, were constituted in Chechoslovakia only during the 1950s. Its theoretical background is the Soviet school of African studies (Olderogge) and Moscow's 'modern' orientation (Potekhin) but also the British school of social anthropology and the Vienna school of historical ethnology. At present there are eight major centers of African studies. Bibliographical references.