APATINSKI NEMCI: ETNICKA REVITALIZACIJA JEDNE SKRIVENE MANJINE
GERMANS OF APATIN: ETHNIC REVITALIZATION OF A HIDDEN MINORITY (?)
Author(s): Vanja BalašaSubject(s): Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Ethnic Minorities Studies, Identity of Collectives
Published by: Институт за етнологију и антропологију
Keywords: ethnic identity; construction; Germans in Vojvodina/Apatin; Danube Swabians; ethnic revitalization; identity management; hidden minority;
Summary/Abstract: This paper follows the process of construction of ethnic identity of Germans in Apatin (and Vojvodina). This paper elaborates basic historic phases in which crucial changes in self-definition and self-representation of this minority community occurred. Special attention is given to contemporary effort by local German association to initialize the process of ethnic revitalization. By acting upon strategic management of identity, a hidden m inority is to be made visible in wider social and cultural space once again.
Journal: Antropologija
- Issue Year: 9/2009
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 129-144
- Page Count: 16
- Language: Serbian
