THREE-FINGER EMBLEM. HOW DID THE SERBS GESTURE CONSTRUCT THE VISUAL IMAGE OF THEIR NATIONAL IDENTITY IN 20th CENTURY 90s Cover Image

АМБЛЕМОТ НА ТРИТЕ ПРСТА: КАКО СРБИТЕ ГО КОНСТРУИРАА ВИЗУЕЛНИОТ ИМИЏ НА НИВНИОТ НАЦИОНАЛЕН ИДЕНТИТЕТ ВО ДЕВЕДЕСЕТТИТЕ ГОДИНИ ОД ДВАЕСЕТТИОТ ВЕК
THREE-FINGER EMBLEM. HOW DID THE SERBS GESTURE CONSTRUCT THE VISUAL IMAGE OF THEIR NATIONAL IDENTITY IN 20th CENTURY 90s

Author(s): Bojan Žikić
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Институт за етнологија и антропологија, Универзиетет »Св. Кирил и Методиј«
Keywords: gesture: anthropological approach; emblems; semantics and morphology; Serbia: contemporary culture; cultural cognition; ethnicity; identification and auto identification

Summary/Abstract: The gestural performance of the physical body vehicle shape which consequently became known as the Three-Finger Emblem presents a kind of the cultural invention in the Serbian culture in the last decade of the 20th Century. This paper deals with this phenomenon from the socio cultural anthropological viewpoint founded on the methodology of gesture studies: the issue of interest includes matters of ethnicity and identity, as well those of gesture morphology, semantics and motivation.

  • Issue Year: 2004
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 10-25
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Macedonian
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