Imagining the past, creating identity: The case of the Bayash

Based on fieldwork conducted among several Bayash communities in the Balkans, the author examines the way in which the interlocutors assume an identity and try to construct a past for their people, using etiological legends about the origin of their community which combine heterogeneous historica...

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Main Author: Sorescu-Marinković Annemarie
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institute of Ethnography, SASA, Belgrade 2011-01-01
Series:Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU
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Online Access:http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0350-0861/2011/0350-08611102047S.pdf