ANTROPOLOŠKI OGLED O ORIJENTALNOM KULTURNOM NASLJEĐU I IDENTITETU NA BALKANU – OD STEREOTIPA DO STVARNOSTI
ANTHROPOLOGICAL ESSAY ABOUT ORIENTAL CULTURAL HERITAGE AND IDENTITY IN THE BALKANS – FROM STEREOTYPES TO REALITY

Summary/Abstract: Elements of Islamic cultural values, during the long Ottoman period in the Balkans, along with other cultural sources, undoubtedly had an impact on the cultural identity of all Balkan nations. However, access to cultural heritage is mentioned often ,,burdened” by ideology and politics, which often resulted contradictions and uncertainty of many courts in the complex topic (from denying or minimizing over critical evaluation and dimensioning components in oriental cultural identity of the Balkan nations) and creating a number of generalizations and stereotypes Balkans through different discourses. Also, the issue of collective (cultural, national) identity is problematizing, especially in the context of actual integration processes on different geo-political levels, starting from regional (precisely, the Balkans), European and global ,,unifications”. Mostly because we are changing wider social-cultural paradigm of our existence and the position of individual and collective identification. In this sense, cultural identity or identities in the Balkans, after all as elsewhere, are constantly in the process, review and (re)definition, depending on the relationship to the so-called other (identities), ie. perceptions of self and otherness.

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