From local and regional to national: Construction of Krashovanian identitty in the XXI century

  • Saša Nedeljković Department of Ethnology and Anthropology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21301/eap.v13i1.3
Keywords:
Krashovani, Croatia, Serbia, Romania, ethnic identity, national identity, culture

Abstract

Identities of Krashovani has not so far been the subject of serious and systematic research by sociocultural anthropologists. Therefore, an attempt has been made in this paper to highlight this problem from the position of the mentioned discipline. The change in the manner of Krashovani declaring through history was analyzed, but also the process of constructing their contemporary identity formula at the institutional level, as well as the application and development of identities at the interactive and individual level. In addition to field research, conducted in 2015 and 2016 in Carasova, the material was collected through review of media reports, as well as observing Facebook's accounts.

References

Birta. I. 1993. Karaševci: narodne umotvorine sa etnološkim osvrtom. Bukurešt.

Blažanović, J, J. Vukobratović. 2017. O glazbeni idiomima Karaševaca. Zagreb, rukopis.

Creţan, R, P. Kun and L. Vesalon 2014. From Carasovan to Croat: The ‘Ethnic Enigma’ of a (Re)Invented Identity in Romania. Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies 16 (4): 437-458.

Kertzer, D. I. and D. Arel. 2002.“ Censuses, identity formation, and the struggle for political power“. In Census and Identity: The Politics of Race, Ethnicity and Language in National Censuses, Kertzer, D.I. and D.Arel (eds.), 1-43. Cambridge University Press.

Novak, M. 1996. Predgovor. U Pogleni, Bože, na naše slze, M Šera, 4-8. Zagreb: Nakladni zavod Matice Hrvatske.

Petrović, E. 1988. Etnički identitet kao element teorije o etnosu. Etnoantropološki problemi 3: 7-16.

Radan, M.N. 1994. Problemi porekla Karaševaka. Novi Sad. Temišvarski zbornik 1: 147-151.

Zhao, S., S. Grasmuck and J. Martin. 2008. Identity construction on Facebook: Digital empowerment in anchored relationships. Computers in human behavior 24: 1816-1836.
Published
2018-02-24
Issue
Vol 13 No 1 (2018): Issues in Ethnology and Anthropology
Section
Scientific Articles
Copyright (c) 2018 Saša Nedeljković

All articles in Issues in Ethnology and Anthropology are published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0 Serbia (CC BY), which allows authors and users to copy, distribute, transmit and adapt the article.

The CC BY license permits non-commercial and commercial re-use of an open access article, as long as the author is properly attributed.

Copyright on any research article published by Issues in Ethnology and Anthropology is retained by the author(s).

Authors grant to the Issues in Ethnology and Anthropology the right to publish the article, to be cited as its original publisher in case of reuse, and to distribute it in all forms and media. Copyright and source must be acknowledged and a link must be made to the article's DOI.