„Inventing the Past” – Media Representations of Ethnic Communities – the Case of the Archeological Excavations in Kolozsvár’s Main Square Cover Image

„Feltalálni a múltat!” – etnikai közösségek mediatizált megjelenítése a Kolozsvár főterén végzett archeológiai ásatások példáján
„Inventing the Past” – Media Representations of Ethnic Communities – the Case of the Archeological Excavations in Kolozsvár’s Main Square

Author(s): László Péter
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Presa Universitara Clujeana
Keywords: ethnic communities, social, hierarchical relationship, media

Summary/Abstract: The case study focuses on the media discourses that emerged around the archeological excavations on Kolozsvár’s Main Square, in order to present the local nationalist practices in two important historical moments: in 1943 and in 1994. The author concludes that in historic moments of this kind social and hierarchical relationships between ethnic communities can be described by analysing the discourses about particular events, which offer the possibility of identification and thus group membership through the collective identities represented by them. László Péter – sociologist, lecturer at the Babeş-Bolyai University, Faculty of Sociology, his main areas of interest are: public opinion, social problems, sociology of poverty. E-mail: peterlaci@yahoo.com.

  • Issue Year: 4/2006
  • Issue No: 02
  • Page Range: 21-39
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Hungarian