Компаративна етнографија односа становника Баната према земљи – земља као симболички ресурс
Comparative Ethnography of Banat’s Inhabitants Stances towards their Land: Land as a Symbolic Resource

Author(s): Jovana Diković
Subject(s): Anthropology, Social Sciences
Published by: Етнографски институт САНУ
Keywords: Banat; land; symbolic resource; comparative ethnography; Gaj; Aradac
Summary/Abstract: This paper represents an introduction to comparative research of villages of Aradac and Gaj in the Banat region, and of different ethnic groups living there. In this research, inhabitants’ attitudes toward the land will be examined, especially in the period of the land reforms and immediately afterwards, and since the democratic changed until present. Special attention will be paid to the land as a symbolic resource, i.e. “symbolic real estate”. The research would mostly focus on how this symbolic relationship toward the land has been shaped historically (in the light of historic and political circumstances), and how it looks today. Possibilities for transformation of this symbolic relation with land and most important reasons determining it will also be analyzed. The aim of this paper is to point out the importance of the comparative ethnographic method, possible results which could shed light on a very specific relation ‘individual – land’, and complexity and characteristics of such a relation. This research would additionally stress the multicultural character of the Banat region through cases of cultural and customary diversity of attitudes toward the land.

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