The Balkans in Focus
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The Balkans in Focus

Cultural Boundaries in Europe

  1. 234 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

The Balkans in Focus

Cultural Boundaries in Europe

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Introduction
  5. On Religious and Cultural Borderlines in Southeastern Europe
  6. Weak States, Uncivil Societies and Thousands of NGOs: Benevolent Colonialism in the Balkans
  7. South Slav Traditional Culture as a Means to Political Legitimization
  8. Who owns the Gusle? - A contribution to Research on the Political History of a Balkan Instrument
  9. Women Partisans as Willing Executioners in Croatian Popular Memory of the 1990s
  10. Bosnia and Herzegovina: Boundaries and Permeation
  11. Non-ethnic Condemnation in Post-War Stolac - An Ethnographic Case-Study from Bosnia-Herzegovina
  12. Establishing and Dissolving Cultural Boundaries - Croatian Culture in Diasporic Contexts
  13. Ex-Home: “Balkan Culture” in Slovenia after 1991
  14. Notes
  15. About the Authors