Etnická identita na Balkáně. Příklad tzv. hraničních regionů

• Authors: Hristov P.

Title variants

EN

ETHNIC IDENTITY ON THE BALKANS. RESEARCH OF THE SO CALLED BORDER REGIONS

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

This article is a summary of the author's experience gained while studying the border areas with compound communities (in ethnic, national, or confessional meaning) in the various regions of Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia and Serbia in the beginning of 21st century. There are two difficulties that the researcher faces. The first comes from the fact that the researchers from the Balkans (ethnologists, historians, anthropologists) belong to one of the researched traditions; the second difficulty arises from the inadequate understanding of the history of those border areas, as well as the predominant primordial concept of national identity. Hence, the question is about regions of dispersed interwoven cultures, in which the tradition of contacts and conflicts made a unique cultural pattern. The comparative studies in theses regions require, according to the author, a new understanding of the reasons, ways and patterns of the 'construction' of national identities on the Balkans.

Keywords

EN

BALKANS; ETHNIC MARKERS; FRONTIER REGIONS; INSTRUMENTALISM; NATIONALISM; SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIVISM; THEORY OF ETHNICITY

Discipline

• ETHNOLOGY: ETHNOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Český lid: etnologický časopis (Český lid: Ethnological journal)
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 95
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 163-172
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Hristov P.

• P. Hristov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Ethnographic Institute and Museum, Moskovska str. 6A, Sofia 1000, Bulgaria

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

08CZAAAA04678939