UKRAIŃCY, RUSINI KARPACCY, HUCULI, CORCITURĂ… TOŻSAMOŚĆ ETNICZNA I INDYFERENTYZM NARODOWY W MARMAROSZU
UKRAINIANS, CARPATHO-RUSYNS, HUTSULS, CORCITURĂ... THE ETHNIC IDENTITY AND THE NATIONAL INDIFFERENTISM IN MARAMUREȘ

Summary/Abstract: National indifference is a concept that has been making an increasingly stronger presence on the pages of studies addressing the history of nationalisms in Central and Eastern Europe of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century. In these works this concept is mentioned when analysing the status of various communities, which for a long time showed a clearly indifferent attitude to the national programmes and identities proposed to them. Researchers exploring the problems of national indifference focus mainly on the history of groups living in the borderland areas of Central and Eastern Europe. Looking into their studies, one can get the impression that this phenomenon could only be spotted in the times when nation-states were in the process of formation. In the presented article I argue that the aforementioned concept can also be useful when analysing contemporary studies on ethnicity and national identity. One example of a community in which phenomena fitting into national indifference can be spotted is the Slavic-speaking community of the Maramures region in Romania. As shown in the article, this community, or at least a discernible part of it, despite the changing circumstances and emerging competitive national and ethnic ideas, has found space to remain ambivalent towards them, even at the beginning of the 21st century in an era of well-established nation-states.

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