Myth-Making in European Family History: the Zadruga Revisited
Myth-Making in European Family History: the Zadruga Revisited

Summary/Abstract: The language of history, more than any other systematic approach to knowledge, is subject to diverse, often contradictory interpretations. Lacking a rigorous scientific conceptual apparatus, it operates within the rather loose and changeable, albeit imaginative and often beautiful, conceptual pool of everyday speech. Although most historians are quite aware of this problem, hardly one in a hundred risks spoiling a nicely outlined presentation with a pedantic introduction on definitions. Taking the risk, I should like to begin with a definition of the key notion I use throughout this analysis answering the question: What is a myth? [...]

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