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„Najdu mladého přítele, přírodu milujícího?“ Kulturněantropologický pohled na inzerci v meziválečném homosexuálním tisku
| Title in English | ‘Will I find a young friend, one who loves nature?’ A cultural-anthropological perspective on personal ads in interwar homosexual press |
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| Year of publication | 2019 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Český lid |
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| Citation | |
| Web | http://dx.doi.org/10.21104/CL.2019.2.02 |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.21104/CL.2019.2.02 |
| Keywords | cultural anthropology; sign; deixis; source; personal ads; interwar period; Czechoslovakia; homosexuality |
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| Description | The aim of this paper is to inquire into the possibilities of utilising personal ads as a source of cultural-anthropological research. Specifically, it proposes an analysis of a corpus of over 500 ads, published in 1931–1934 in a magazine of the Czechoslovak homosexual minority, the Voice of the Sexual Minority. It proposes to approach these very short utterances as signs, analytical work being possible only at the level of the signifier. It also proposes to analyse some crucial expressions, repeated very often in these ads, through the concept of a symbolic-deictic field. In this way, the paper reaches a conclusion that sheds new light on conceptual categories of the interwar Czechoslovak homosexual subculture, which have not yet been perceived by a classical historical research. |
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