History in Exile
Subtitle: Memory and Identity at the Borders of the Balkans
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: December 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780691086972
Subjects: Anthropology; European history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Social groups & communities; Social, group or collective psychology; Sociology; History - General History; Social Science; Croatia; Italy; Slovenia; Yugoslavia & former Yugoslavia; Eastern Europe - Balkan Republics; Europe - Italy; Modern - 20th Century; European History; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Anthropology - General
First sentence: HAVING sketched out broad theoretical issues that frame this project, I now lay out the landscape of memory in the Julian March, that is, the terrain shaped by historical processes and, in turn, the field in which the production of memory and history occurs Some anthropological accounts of displacement, loss, and nostalgia have offered superb microstudies focusing on individual houses and neighborhoods as sites of remembrance and social architecture (Bahloul, 1996; Hirschon 1998).