ON “DRAMAS, FIELDS AND…” INTERPRETIVE COMMUNITIES
ON “DRAMAS, FIELDS AND…” INTERPRETIVE COMMUNITIES

Summary/Abstract: Reconsidering Victor Turner’s concept of communitas, my study aims to analyze its history,applicability and limits, focusing on the specific case of the Cluj Jewish group. Based on theinterpretation of empirical material, collected through intensive fieldwork, my approach contributes toan anthropological understanding of “interpretive communities”. The experiences of anxieties,traumatic memories, nostalgia and the ways they determine specific group coagulation strategies aretopics of main interest, permanently analyzed in my study. Viewed both at the individual andcommunitarian levels, constituted as thresholds or liminal stages, they have an important role in theprocess of identity construction and representation of the Cluj Jewish group. Empirical data gatheredthrough applying qualitative research methods (mostly life-histories, semi-structured and in-depthinterviews), put in a neo-interpretive framework, structure my approach.

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