Strangers either way : the lives of Croatian refugees in their new home /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English Croatian |
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New York, NY :
Berghahn Books,
2007.
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| Edition: | English-language ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- The ethnology of individuals
- The individual and her/his culture
- The relational notion of identity
- Case study: the Srijem Croats
- Polyphony, hybridity, and levels of reading: methodological-epistemological remarks
- The Srijem case as an instance of coethnic migrations
- Srijem Croats talk about themselves
- Exchanges
- One's own and other people's
- Nostalgia
- Identity building in the local environment
- "If they are doing well, we are doing well too": resignation
- "We will never get over it": the Srijem sorrow
- "There's no going back, you have to go forward": integration
- Ethnocentrism of the newcomers
- The older generation and the migration
- Before the migration: "There was money! What a life! Real life!"
- Reasons for leaving Srijem and making the decision to move
- The resettlement: the grandfathers deciding
- In the new surroundings
- From domination to dependence
- Constructing difference, identifying the self
- Attribution of difference and symbolism of collective identity
- "Good" and "bad" Croats or how to measure Croatian-ness
- About the same thing from the other side: statements by the local population in Gradina
- Between individual and collective integration into Croatian society
- At the outset: categorizing the settlers
- Activities of the migrant association
- The leaders' dilemma: equal citizens or a "sect of Srijem Croats"
- Community, identification, interaction
- Antagonism between "the established" and "the outsiders"
- The local population's perspective
- The stereotyped rhetoric of difference
- Stereotyping and individualization
- The ease of person-to-person interaction
- Conclusions
- Epilogue: ethnologist and her/his public
- To take the standpoint of the research subjects or not?
- Reactions to the restitution of the research
- Further unwanted consequences of restitution
- How to protect the research subjects
- In the end: the distinct position of an ethnologist at home.