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Objektivni i subjektivni čimbenici identifikacije sa zajednicom
Objective and Subjective Factors of Community Identification

Author(s): Jasna Čapo Žmegač
Subject(s): Recent History (1900 till today), Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Rural and urban sociology, Identity of Collectives
Published by: Hrvatsko etnološko društvo
Keywords: Croatia; rural area; community identification; ethnography; local communities;

Summary/Abstract: The article proposes to describe communities in the rural milieu in Croatia at the beginning of the 20th century and to point to their constituent elements. Based on several theoretical and methodological assumptions (the distinctions between territorial and social space, between objective and subjective traits in the constitution of communities, between levels of their construction), it describes communities whose relevancy has been shown by ethnographic analysis. Those are village and parish communities as well as supra-local communities based on certain political developments, religious affiliation and ethnicity. Both objective and subjective elements in the construction of community boundaries are being discussed and examples thereof presented.

  • Issue Year: 27/1997
  • Issue No: 20
  • Page Range: 69-82
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Croatian