| Title : | The Balkans in Focus : Cultural Boundaries in Europe |
| Material Type: | printed text |
| Authors: | Sanimir Resic, Editor ; Barbara Törnquist-Plewa, Author |
| Publisher: | Lund, Sweden : Nordic Academic Press |
| Publication Date: | 2002 |
| Pagination: | 234 p. |
| Layout: | ill. |
| Size: | 24 cm |
| ISBN (or other code): | 978-91-89116-38-2 |
| General note: | Includes bibliographical notes (p. 209-231)
Includes bibliographical references |
| Languages : | English (eng) Original Language : English (eng) |
| Descriptors: | Cultural awareness
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| Class number: | 949.6 |
| Abstract: | Discussing the complex weave of cultural links and the different religious and linguistic groups that have been living side by side in the Balkans for centuries, this anthropological study is the result of a project initiated to create a network of scholars from Scandinavia and the Yugoslav successor states devoted to the study of post-Yugoslav cultural and political developments. Nine papers on problems of cultural boundaries are presented with the idea of countering the picture of the Balkans as a huge borderland where irresolvable age-old ethnic and religious rivalries will inevitably cause conflict as informed by stereotypes and oversimplifications. Topics include the historical crossing of religious borderlines, the legitimizing efforts of elites to create national identities, struggles to declare "ownership" over the origins of a particular musical instrument, and similar topics. |
| Contents note: | Sanimir Resic and Barbara Tornquist-Plewa: Introduction; Thomas Bremer: On Religious and Cultural Borderlines in Southeastern Europe; Steven Sampson: Weak States, Uncivil Societies and Thousands of NGOs: Benevolent Colonialism in the Balkans; Ivo Zanic: South Slav Traditional Culture as a Means to Political Legitimization; Ivan Colovic: Who owns the Gusle? A Contribution to Research on the Political History of a Balkan Musical Instrument; Renata Jambresic Kirin: Women Partisans as Willing Executioners in Croatian Popular Memory of the 1990s; Maja Lovrenovic: Bosnia and Herzegovina: Boundaries and Permeation; Torsten Kolind: Non-ethnic Condemnation in Post-War Stolac : An Ethnographic Case-Study from Bosnia-Herzegovina; Maja Povrzanovic Frykman: Establishing and Dissolving Cultural Boundaries: Croatian Culture in Diasporic Contexts; Mitja Velikonja: Ex-Home: "Balkan Culture" in Slovenia after 1991; |
| Record link: | https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=17221 |
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