Narrating Victimhood - Gender, Religion and the Making of Place in Post-war Croatia

The only ethnographic analysis of right-wing nationalism in post-war Croatia


Unique description of the pilgrimage site in the Dalmatian town of Sinj and the apparition site in Gala


One of the first scholarly analyses of the situation of war veterans in post-war Croatia


Description of contemporary Croatian society contrasts with notions which exclusively draw on concepts of "cultural trauma" to explain the resurgence and manipulability of post-Yugoslav nationalisms

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Preface

Acknowledgements

Notes on the Text

Introduction

Chapter 1. (In-)Subordination at the Margins of Europe

Chapter 2. Marian Devotion in Times of War

Chapter 3. Re-Visions of History through Landscape

Chapter 4. Of War Heroes, Martyrs, and Invalids

Chapter 5. Mobilising Local Reserves

Concluding Remarks

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Michaela Schäuble is Assistant Professor in Social Anthropology at the University of Berne (Switzerland). Previously she was a Lecturer in Social and Visual Anthropology at the University of Manchester and has held postdoctoral fellowships at the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University and the Institute of Advanced Studies at Bologna University.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Michaela Sch, Michaela Schauble, Michaela Schäuble, Schauble Michaela, Schäuble Michaela, Michaela Scheauble
• Verlag: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 15.04.2014
• EAN: 9781782382607
• ISBN: 978-1-78238-260-7
• Seiten: 392
• Abmessung: 160 mm x 236 mm x 25 mm
• Serien: Space and Place; Space and Place
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Religion/Theologie; Soziologie, Religion, allgemein, Gender Studies: Gruppen, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, Archaeology / Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Croatia, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Armed Conflict, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / General, Anthropology (General); Gender Studies and Sexuality