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The Practice of the Collective Memory on the Island of Hvar, Case Study of the Hvar People’s Uprising

This paper explores one contemporary reflection of the important event in the history of the island of Hvar in central Dalmatia. It is symbolically named "island of memory" as it possesses particular feature of separateness that the sea has established in isolating the island community to become particularly interwoven and interdependent. In this manner the symbiotic insular society frames memory of the specific historical instances that were of distinctive island's origin. Connecting the theory of the nissology with the theory of the collective memory the hypothesis of the “island of memory” is suggested by which island population creates its collective memory on the specific geographical features of the island separateness and internal social cohesion. It deals with the remembrance of the "Hvar People's Uprising" of 1510-1514 and its leader Matij Ivanić that is considered a move for social equality in the feudal period of Venetian Republic. Today they are the symbols of the resistance against all kind of external intervention and elements of island population's cohesion and self-sufficiency. The transition process of the Uprising in the island collective memory was modified by various political and ideological stimuli but retained distinctive island traits.

nissology ; collective memory ; island of Hvar ; Vrbanj ; Hvar People’s Uprising ; Matija Ivanić ; island of memory ; island community

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