Description |
1 online resource (xi, 318 pages) : illustrations, portrait |
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New anthropologies of Europe |
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New anthropologies of Europe.
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Contents |
Belgrade -- Serbia's position in European geopolitical imaginings -- Highlanders and lowlanders -- Tender-hearted criminals and the reverse Pygmalion -- Serbian jeremiads : too much character, too little kultur -- Glorious pasts and imagined continuities : the most ancient people -- Narrative cycles : from Kosovo to Jadovno -- "The wish to be a Jew," or, The power of the Jewish trope -- Garbled genres : conspiracy theories, everyday life, and the poetics of opacity -- Mille vs. transition : a super informant in the slushy swamp of Serbian politics -- Conclusion: Chrono-tropes and awakenings -- Filmography |
Summary |
The central role that the regime of Slobodan Milo?evic played in the bloody dissolution of Yugoslavia is well known, but Marko?ivkovic explores another side of this time period: the stories people in Serbia were telling themselves (and others) about themselves.?ivkovic traces the recurring themes, scripts, and narratives that permeated public discourse in Milo?evic's Serbia, as Serbs described themselves as Gypsies or Jews, violent highlanders or peaceful lowlanders, and invoked their own mythologized d |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
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Milošević, Slobodan, 1941-2006 -- Influence
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SUBJECT |
Milošević, Slobodan, 1941-2006 fast |
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National characteristics, Serbian -- History -- 20th century
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Imagination -- Social aspects -- Serbia -- History -- 20th century
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Imagination -- Political aspects -- Serbia -- History -- 20th century
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Narration (Rhetoric) -- Social aspects -- Serbia -- History -- 20th century
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Narration (Rhetoric) -- Political aspects -- Serbia -- History -- 20th century
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Popular culture -- Serbia -- History -- 20th century
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Political culture -- Serbia -- History -- 20th century
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Imagination -- Social aspects
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Manners and customs
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Narration (Rhetoric) -- Political aspects
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Narration (Rhetoric) -- Social aspects
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National characteristics, Serbian
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Political culture
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Politics and government
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Popular culture
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Serbia -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
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Serbia -- Politics and government -- 1992-2006. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001007009
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Serbia
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2010041410 |
ISBN |
9780253001740 |
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0253001749 |
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0253356237 |
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9780253356239 |
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0253223067 |
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9780253223067 |
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