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Island Tradition Between Local and Global Throughout History

This paper addresses the ways in which culture and history have interacted to produce change in the communities on the Adriatic island of Korčula. It focuses on the chain sword dances, related customs and confraternities that perform them, which once as the global phenomenon were imported, mediated through urban centers and appropriated by all major island villages as a sign of distinctive communal identity and solidarity, and for which they seek today to achieve recognition at the global level as world intangible heritage. It explores a complex process of continuity through transformation, by distinguishing different temporalities and scales of articulation (local, regional, national, global), performance and dialogue across cultural and generational divides

anthropology; tradition; Korčula island; chain sword dances

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