Regionalni identitet Hrvata u Bosni i Hercegovini – Duvnjaci Bosanci i/ili Hercegovci i/ili Dalmatinci
Regional Identity of Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina – Duvnians (Inhabitants of Duvno) Bosnians and/or Herzegovinians and/or Dalmatians

Summary/Abstract: This paper questions the regional identity of Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina on the example of the inhabitants of the Municipality of Tomislavgrad. Through history Tomislavgrad has changed its name in several occasions. The name Duvno is the most known and based on this name the inhabitants of this municipality are called Duvnonians, where some of them identify themselves as Herzegovinians or Bosnians or Dalmatians. The focus of this paper is the relation of national and regional identity within the specifics of contemporary social and political context in Bosnia and Herzegovina. An identity is observed as relational, contrastive, situational and dynamic concept which is in constant change, depending on social and political moment in which the identification process occurs. The identities are, within this understanding, observed as a narrative construction and projection in present and future rather than an ontological fact based on the past. Regional identity of Duvnonians has been observed as a narrative construction within contemporary multinational and multireligious context of Bosnia and Herzegovina where national/ethnical identification is emphasized more than other identification processes.

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