On "Bosnian Mentality": From distanced observations to anti-nationalist practices Cover Image

O “bosanskom mentalitetu”: od distanciranih opažanja do antinacionalističkih praksi
On "Bosnian Mentality": From distanced observations to anti-nationalist practices

Author(s): Alenka Bartulović
Subject(s): Customs / Folklore, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure
Published by: Institut za etnologiju i folkloristiku
Keywords: antinationalism; Bosnia and Herzegovina: mentality; Bosnian paradigm; identification;

Summary/Abstract: This article traces the revitalization of the idea of Bosnian identity in the post-Dayton Sarajevo. In the post-war society, characterological depiction have found their way into antinationalist discourse (which is closely related to an idealized model of imagined civic nationalism), where they are used as strategies of resistance against the violence as ascribed and imposed identities.

  • Issue Year: 52/2015
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 53-68
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Croatian