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Pomalo et Fjaka sont un état d’esprit îlien. Anatomie culturelle des îles dalmates de Hvar et Dugi otok

This paper seeks to explore the connection between island space, body practices, and narrations in order to demystify often hermetic notion of “island time”. This generic notion is questioned through the cultural analysis focused on the concepts of “pomalo” and “fjaka”. In public discourse, pomalo and fjaka are perceived as typical island carefree mindset implying laziness, idleness, a sort of non-activity where one aspires for nothing. In some cases, it is even advertised as indigenous Dalmatian philosophy. Based on results from several years of ethnographic research conducted on the Dalmatian islands of Hvar and Dugi otok, the phenomenon of pomalo and fjaka are problematised from the perspectives of local islanders and foreigners who decided to settle on the islands. Their experience stir analytically intriguing questions that seek to explore not just the anatomy of time per se, but also point out to intertwinement of space, narration and body in production of island time.

Island time, Dalmatian islands, Pomalo, Fjaka, Ethnographic approach

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