Myths and boundaries in South-Eastern Europe
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Myths and boundaries in South-Eastern Europe
Hurst & Company, c2005
- casebound
- pbk.
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Includes bibliography (p. 322-349) and index
Contents of Works
- Introduction : Assessing the role of the historical myth in modern society / Pål Kolstø
- The symbolic identity of Croatia in the Triangle : Crossroads-Bulwark-Bridge / Ivo Žanić
- The boundary on the Drina : the meaning and development of the mythologem / Ivo Goldstein
- Bosnian historical reality and its reflection in myth / Srećko M. Džaja
- The sanctification of enmity : churches and the construction of founding myths Serbia and Croatia / Vjekoslav Perica
- Adamant and treacherous : Serbian historians on religious conversions / Bojan Aleksov
- The evolution of boundary : defining historical myths in Serbian academic and public opinion in the 1990s / Ana Antić
- Between destiny and contingency : variations on historical narratives in the arts during the break-up of Yugoslavia / Zoran Terzić
- Ancient Nationhood and the struggle for statehood : historiographic myths in the Republic of Macedonia / Ulf Brunnbauer
- Historical myths : the Bulgarian case of pride and prejudice / Albena Hranova
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Myths and Boundaries in South Eastern Europe examines how historical myths have contributed to the crystallisation of national boundaries in the Balkans, primarily among the South Slavs. Myths and the relevance of myth-making in politics are well-established fields of social inquiry, as are boundaries and the mechanisms that define them, but they have largely developed in isolation from each other. Only rarely have studies of historical myths taken into account their boundary-creating effects. Conversely, the study of identity boundaries has mostly focused on mechanisms other than myth-making. One of the achievements of this book is to bring these two traditions of inquiry into dialogue with each other.
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