Identitate narativã si istorie. Schitã a unei hãrti identitare bãnãtene
Narrative identity and history. A sketch of the Banat identity map

Summary/Abstract: I have studied through content analysis and M. Rokeach's social value scale a sample of "stories of life' from the Archive of the Cultural Anthropology and Oral History Group of "The Third Europe" Foundation in Timisoara. The interpretation of results has outlined that the identifications in terms of ethnicity are more generous than these in terms of region, offering more positive valuations of the authors of the discourse. In this way, the border of Differentiation is not constructed by the ethnicity criterion with ethnical other the inhabitant of Banat sharing a common unmediated history contradicting, in this way, the ethnocentric approaches. Quite often in the retrospective discourse, through activating a narrative identity, the memory becomes a support for the rehabilitation of the identitary type, and the recovery takes place rather symbolically and, in any case, in another dimension. I have realized a comparison carried out among the finality values, which once acquired introduce the social actor in the register of "to have" and the instrumental values, in the register of "to be". It could be observed, out of over 2000 axiological references, that the continuous presence of work and of assuming the destiny - represented by the territory of "to be" - is more extensive than the territory which places the subject in the register of "to have", stressing an important reconstruction of existential paradigm for those confronted with a threatening and unsettled history. Thus, the vocation of communities to mobilize real identitary strategies in the confronting with an unfavourable social context is reconfirmed.

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