Naslov
Diseased as "Other" in the 18th Century Northern Dalmatia

Autori
Mlinarić, Dubravka

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
Tolerance and Intolerance on the triplex Confinium ; Approaching the "Other" on the Borderlands Eastern Adriatic and beyond 1500-1800

Urednik/ci
Ivetic, Egidio ; Roksandić, Drago

Izdavač
Cooperativa Libraria Editrice Università di Padova (CLEUP)

Grad
Padova

Godina
2007

Raspon stranica
301-313

ISBN
978-88-6129-300-7

Ključne riječi
diseases, demography, identity, rural communities, Dalmatia, 18th Century

Sažetak
The study investigates varieties of eco-historically (wars, scarcity of food, climatic instability) predetermined diseases in the 18th Century Northern Dalmatian villages, namely in the Ravni Kotari region. It further questions the perception of diseased individuals or communities and the identities of Diseased as "Others" or differentiated from the majority of the local rural inhabitants by their disease/es. The results indicate compassion, tolerance and wide acceptance of diseased members within the family or closer community on the one hand. On the other hand broader society or even more administrative, church or state authorities reacted with intolerance and repression, stigmatization and stereotypisation of diseased Morlaks. The demographic potential of diseased inhabitant, especially if not infected by endemic and long-lasting destructive diseases as malaria, was much higher than those of starved and constantly hungry local people. In spite of that their integraton to the broader community was highly dependent on the economic capacity of that community, which was most usually very low.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Ekonomija, Sociologija, Povijest

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