The fundamental contrast between convergent and divergent tendencies in the development
of Balkan cultural identity can be seen as an important determinative both in the …

Identity in the Balkans Page 1 Raymond DETREZ & Pieter PLAS (eds.) Developing Cultural
Identity in the Balkans Convergence vs. Divergence “Multiple Europes” No. 34 Page 2 No …

The bulk of literature on the Balkans which has appeared since 1989 has made a lot of the
stereotyped Western discourse about the region during the last two centuries. Local …

In the framework of the larger theoretical problem investigating the formation and
transformation of identities and interests, as well as the tensions between them, this chapter …

In this chapter, I look at a case in which a myth about a specific region was transformed into
an anthropological reality. While I take my cue from Adam Kuper's The Invention of Primitive …

The title of this paper–“Bulgaria's Way to Europe”–alludes to a popular political metaphor in
Bulgaria from the first half of the 1990s. The metaphor is conspicuous in itself, pointing at the …

The aim of this article is to interrogate the current mainstream interpretation of the relations
between the Balkans and the West by exploring the agencies of the transmission of …

The rise of the nation and the promotion of national ideology have a key role in the
redefinition of the Balkan identities. The new era of modernity is actually offering brand new …

This book focuses on issues concerning identity in terms of Balkan and non-Balkan cultures,
and examines questions of modernity and the ever-present dread of primitivism which is …

Nationalism has been one of the most powerful-and perhaps also one of the most
destructive-forces shaping the course of Balkan history in the nineteenth and twentieth …