AZ AZONOSSÁG ÉS A MÁSSÁG REPREZENTÁCIÓI AZ IDENTITÁSKÉPZŐ NARRATÍVÁKBAN
The Representation of Sameness and Otherness in the Narratives of Identity Building

Author(s): Imre Ungvári Zrínyi
Subject(s): Anthropology, Philosophy, Social Sciences, Social Philosophy
Published by: Scientia Kiadó
Keywords: sameness;otherness;identity buliding
Summary/Abstract: The analysis of social and individual representations of sameness and otherness involves all major aspects of anthropological and cultural studies. The elements of identity revealed in people’s narrative structures bind together and mediate the actual states of the self with personal history and the community relations of the life-world. The canonic interpretations of sameness and otherness in a community are not just elements of imagination, but as stereotypic expressions influence the people’s conception about themselves, their community and their fellows. To avoid the threat of prejudicious thinking behind the Hungarian–Romanian, Hungarian–Jewish and Hungarian–Rom narratives of identity is of utmost importance to not accept uncritically the representations of social categorization.

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