MULTIDIMENSIONAL IDENTITY AND NATIONAL TRADITION UNDER THE CONDITIONS OF PANEUROPEAN MOBILITY. IS ETHNOLOGY OF A UNITED EUROPE POSSIBLE?
MULTIDIMENSIONAL IDENTITY AND NATIONAL TRADITION UNDER THE CONDITIONS OF PANEUROPEAN MOBILITY. IS ETHNOLOGY OF A UNITED EUROPE POSSIBLE?

Author(s): Petko Hristov
Subject(s): Anthropology, Social Sciences
Published by: Етнографски институт САНУ
Keywords: identity; tradition; pan-European mobility; ethnology; United Europe
Summary/Abstract: The beginning of the new millennium posed new challenges for ethnologists from the Balkans. The fall of the Iron Curtain and the enlargement of the EU, the dissolution of multinational states such as Yugoslavia and the USSR, the candidature of Turkey which dragged on in time and the setting of new EU borders in the Balkans drastically transformed the map of this corner of Europe. The subject of ethnological studies has changed and the construction of multidimensional identities in European countries has become a rule rather than an exception. Under the conditions of pan-European mobility, the nature of national identity as well as the attitude towards cultural and historical heritage (understood as “national tradition”) as its main basis is changing. The questions which ethnological studies in Europe, and particularly in the Balkans, face become more and more numerous and the search for answers – more and more responsible. The article share some observations in this respect.

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