Naslov
Intercultural identities in the late Austro- Hungarian Empire (1867-1918)

Autori
Iveković Martinis, Anja ; Sujoldžić, Anita

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
Constructing the self: Linguistic and historical perspectives on identity and authenticity in egodocuments and other writings ‘from below’ / - , 2015

Skup
Constructing the self: Linguistic and historical perspectives on identity and authenticity in egodocuments and other writings ‘from below’

Mjesto i datum
Bruxelles, Belgija, 24.04.2015. - 25.04.2015

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Ivana Brlić Mažuranić; diary; intercultural; identity; Austro-Hungarian Empire; Croatia; multilingualism; anthropology

Sažetak
The last phase of the Austro-Hungarian Empire is commonly approached through the prism of the process of national identity construction and the conflicts that it entailed in a multinational empire maintained by a complex set of power relations. In contrast to this, this paper, which is part of a larger project on transnationalism and intercultural dialogue in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, focuses on the plurality of cultural resources for personal and collective identity construction available to ordinary people at the time, which often resulted in ambiguous and shifting loyalties, undermining any essentialist concepts of national identity. In what is now Croatia, defined as a modern nation-state, the late Austro-Hungarian period was a time of great cultural and linguistic diversity, with constant transnational migrations, intense trade and cultural exchange. Consumption of imported products, attendance at cultural and social events and simple everyday interactions between people of different cultural and linguistic backgrounds all contributed to creating intercultural identities. In some areas, it was often difficult or even impossible to clearly categorize individuals, families or wider social groups according to ethnicity or even “language of use” (a category used in imperial censuses). By turning to the micro level of ordinary people’s everyday lives, we hope to gain insight into how personal and collective identities were negotiated in this complex and dynamic environment and to reconstruct multi- perspective worldviews and ideologies. The most useful primary sources will be private correspondence, diaries and autobiographies, of local-born people, as well as immigrants and travelers passing through the region, as anthropological resources of a particular space and private time of people during the transition from the 19th to the 20th century.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija, Povijest, Etnologija i antropologija

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