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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462174003321

Titolo

The Balkans in focus [[electronic resource] ] : cultural boundaries in Europe / / Sanimir Resic & Barbara Törnquist-Plewa (eds.)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lund, Sweden, : Nordic Academic Press, [2002]

ISBN

91-87121-70-0

91-87121-71-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ResicSanimir <1964->

Törnquist PlewaBarbara

Disciplina

306.09496

Soggetti

Cultural awareness - Balkan Peninsula

Identity (Psychology) - Balkan Peninsula

Electronic books.

Balkan Peninsula Civilization Congresses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Papers presented at a conference held October 2001 in Lund.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; On Religious and Cultural Borderlines in Southeastern Europe; Weak States, Uncivil Societies and Thousands of NGOs: .. Benevolent Colonialism in the Balkans; South Slav Traditional Culture as a Means to Political Legitimization; Who owns the Gusle? A Contribution to Research on the Political History of a Balkan Musical Instrument; Women Partisans as Willing Executioners in Croatian Popular Memory of the 1990's; Bosnia and Herzegovina: Boundaries and Permeation

Non-ethnic Condemnation in Post-War Stolac An Ethnographic Case-Study from Bosnia-Herzegovina Establishing and Dissolving Cultural Boundaries Croatian Culture in Diasporic Contexts; Ex-Home: "Balkan Culture" in Slovenia after 1991; Notes; About the Authors

Sommario/riassunto

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 inevit