History and Anthropology. Special Issue: Politics and Performance in South‐Eastern Europe (guest editors Rozita Dimova and Ludmila Cojocaru), vol. 24, issue 1, March 2013
Journal Title: Martor. The Museum of the Romanian Peasant Anthropology Review - Year 2013, Vol 18, Issue 18
Abstract
The reviewed volume is dedicated to the performative and ritualistic dimensions of the identity processes in the post-Soviet and post-Yugoslavian space and focuses on the three republics of former Yugoslavia: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia / FYROM, Montenegro, together with Moldova, a former republic of the Soviet Union.
Authors and Affiliations
Stelu Șerban
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