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

• Pubblicazione: Lund, Sweden, : Nordic Academic Press, [2002]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (241 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.09496
• Soggetto topico: Cultural awareness - Balkan Peninsula; Identity (Psychology) - Balkan Peninsula
• Soggetto geografico: Balkan Peninsula Civilization Congresses
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: ResicSanimir <1964-> Törnquist PlewaBarbara
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The Balkans in focus
• ISBN: 91-87121-70-0; 91-87121-71-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910462174003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II