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Balkan Heritages: Negotiating History and Culture: 1 (British School at Athens - Modern Greek and Byzantine Studies) - Hardcover

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9781472467249: Balkan Heritages: Negotiating History and Culture: 1 (British School at Athens - Modern Greek and Byzantine Studies)
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ISBN 10: 1472467248 ISBN 13: 9781472467249
Publisher: Routledge, 2015

Synopsis

This volume deals with the relation between heritage, history and politics in the Balkans. Contributions examine diverse ways in which material and immaterial heritage has been articulated, negotiated and manipulated since the nineteenth century. The major question addressed here is how modern Balkan nations have voiced claims about their past by establishing ’proof’ of a long historical presence on their territories in order to legitimise national political narratives. Focusing on claims constructed in relation to tangible evidence of past presence, especially architecture and townscape, the contributors reveal the rich relations between material and immaterial conceptions of heritage. This comparative take on Balkan public uses of the past also reveals many common trends in social and political practices, ideas and fixations embedded in public and collective memories. Balkan Heritages revisits some general truths about the Balkans as a region and a category, in scholarship and in politics. Contributions to the volume adopt a transnational and trans-disciplinary perspective of Balkan identities and heritage(s), viewed here as symbolic resources deployed by diverse local actors with special emphasis on scholars and political leaders.

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About the Author

Maria Couroucli is an anthropologist, Senior Researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS, France) and Director of Modern Studies at the Ecole française d'Athènes, Greece; Tchavdar Marinov is a historian dealing with Modern and Contemporary Balkan history and a former fellow of the French School at Athens (Ecole française d’Athènes), Greece.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2015
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1472467248
ISBN 13 
9781472467249
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
270
Editor
Couroucli Maria, Marinov Tchavdar