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“Dezidijati”: Identitetski konstrukt između antičkih i suvremenih percepcija
The Daesitiates: The identity-construct between contemporary and ancient perceptions

Author(s): Danijel Džino
Subject(s): Cultural history, Ethnohistory, Ancient World, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
Published by: Akademija Nauka i Umjetnosti Bosne i Hercegovine
Keywords: Daesitiates; Ancient times; Bronze age; Iron age;

Summary/Abstract: This paper discusses the ancient identity known from the sources as the Daesitiates. The crucial question that this paper raises is: what is hidden behind the term Daesitiates? Is this term a construct of the ancient sources and modern interpretations, or did it exist once as a historical “reality”, and whose reality did that term represent? Currently the prevailing scholarly opinion is that the Daesitiates represented an ethnic or proto-ethnic community, which developed through different stages of social organisation from the late Bronze Age throughout the Iron Age to the arrival of the Romans in the first century BC, ultimately becoming a “people” or a “people-making community”.

  • Issue Year: 2009
  • Issue No: 38
  • Page Range: 75-95
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Bosnian