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(Hidden) Minorities
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 282

(Hidden) Minorities

This book asks why several ethnic and linguistic groups in Central Europe and the Balkans have not yet been legally recognized as national minorities. Some of these hidden minorities have not developed an intellectual elite that can visibly present their identity and claims to the majority population. Other groups are deliberately concealing their existence and language for reasons of self-protection. The chapters in this volume address the everyday mechanisms of hiding and being hidden in the transition zone of these two European regions.

From the Highlands to Hollywood
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 448

From the Highlands to Hollywood

This volume is dedicated to the academic achievements of Karl Kaser and to the 50th anniversary of Southeast European History and Anthropology (SEEHA) at the University of Graz. Its editors are collaborators of SEEHA and experts in various fields of Southeast European Studies: Siegfried Gruber, Dominik Gutmeyr, Sabine Jesner, Elife Krasniqi, Robert Pichler, and Christian Promitzer. The Festschrift covers diverse approaches toward the study of societies and cultures in Southeastern Europe, both with respect to history and current affairs, and brings together contributions from several of Kaser's former doctoral students, colleagues, collaborators and friends from across Europe.

Food & Everyday Life in the Postsocialist World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 249

Food & Everyday Life in the Postsocialist World

Across the Soviet Union and eastern Europe during the socialist period, food emerged as a symbol of both the successes and failures of socialist ideals of progress, equality, and modernity. By the late 1980s, the arrival of McDonald's behind the Iron Curtain epitomized the changes that swept across the socialist world. Not quite two decades later, the effects of these arrivals were evident in the spread of foreign food corporations and their integration into local communities. This book explores the role played by food--as commodity, symbol, and sustenance--in the transformation of life in Russia and eastern Europe since the end of socialism. Changes in food production systems, consumption patterns, food safety, and ideas about health, well-being, nationalism, and history provide useful perspectives on the meaning of the postsocialist transition for those who lived through it.

Крвна жртва: трансформација једног ритуала
  • Language: sr
  • Pages: 301

Крвна жртва: трансформација једног ритуала

Engl. Zsfassung u.d.T.: Animal sacrifice : the transformation of ritual.

History and culture of South Eastern Europe
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 248

History and culture of South Eastern Europe

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Juden in der slowenischen Region Prekmurje
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 98

Juden in der slowenischen Region Prekmurje

Slowenien mit seiner Hauptstadt Ljubljana grenzt an Italien, Kroatien, Österreich und Ungarn und war bislang mit keiner einzigen Schrift in unserer Edition Schoáh & Judaica vertreten. Es hatte sich in 38 Jahren einfach nicht ergeben. Um so mehr war ich erstaunt, am 19. Mai 2022 von dem mir völlig unbekannten slowenischen Kollegen Dr. Oto Luthar ein Publikationsangebot zu erhalten unter dem Titel: "Land der Schatten - Erinnerung an die Vertreibung und das Ver-schwinden der slowenisch-jüdischen Gemeinschaft" [in Prekmurje], woran auch sein Kollege Dr. Martin Pogacar beteiligt war. Der etwas sperrige Titel machte mich neugierig, und nach meinem ersten diagonalen Lesen war ich überzeugt, di...

Negotiating Normality
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 379

Negotiating Normality

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-07-12
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This book is about state socialism, not as a political system, but as an "ecosystem" of interactions between the state and the citizens it sought to control. It includes case studies that demonstrate how the major ideological principles of socialism translated into motives guiding people's lives. This unique post-revisionist study focuses on people's lives and experiences rather than political systems. The studies are grouped around three common elements—socialist labor, the new socialist man, and the socialist way of life. Using first-hand accounts, the authors find minute deviations from the norms that eventually lead to renegotiation of the norms themselves. Focusing on routines, not extremes, they present socialism in its "normal" state. The volume demonstrates different national strategies for dealing with the past in the post-socialist world. Studies of the socialist past may strive to be objective, but their messages tend to be complex. Rather than arriving at one truth about the nature of socialism, this volume explores the many ways people have survived the system.

Similar Languages, Varieties, and Dialects
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 345

Similar Languages, Varieties, and Dialects

Studying language variation requires comprehensive interdisciplinary knowledge and new computational tools. This essential reference introduces researchers and graduate students in computer science, linguistics, and NLP to the core topics in language variation and the computational methods applied to similar languages, varieties, and dialects.

Advances in formal Slavic linguistics 2016
  • Language: en

Advances in formal Slavic linguistics 2016

Advances in Formal Slavic Linguistics 2016 initiates a new series of collective volumes on formal Slavic linguistics. It presents a selection of high quality papers authored by young and senior linguists from around the world and contains both empirically oriented work, underpinned by up-to-date experimental methods, as well as more theoretically grounded contributions. The volume covers all major linguistic areas, including morphosyntax, semantics, pragmatics, phonology, and their mutual interfaces. The particular topics discussed include argument structure, word order, case, agreement, tense, aspect, clausal left periphery, or segmental phonology. The topical breadth and analytical depth of the contributions reflect the vitality of the field of formal Slavic linguistics and prove its relevance to the global linguistic endeavour. Early versions of the papers included in this volume were presented at the conference on Formal Description of Slavic Languages 12 or at the satellite Workshop on Formal and Experimental Semantics and Pragmatics, which were held on December 7-10, 2016 in Berlin.