National identity is not self-generated; it does emerge neither endogenously nor from the resistance to an empire. It is rather exogenous as it is largely determined by the imperial framework within which it emerges (or by which it is generated). Besides, the nation-building process (the process of national identity-making) is a process of manifold replicatons. National movements of the previous two centuries resemble a mirror hall in which every image gets replicated hundred times; in it the agents of national identity making imitate the practices of their counterparts in neighbouring, even 'hostile' nations; they borrow their ways of making things, they copy one another. – The monograph offers an analysis of the selected Slovenian ethnic myths, showing how they emerged through the dialectic play of the empire and nation. Combining methodological approach of historical and social anthropology with that of historical sociology, it demonstrates that most theoretical findings of the comparative imperial studies apply as well to the Slovenian case, and contributes to the further development of this subfield.
COBISS.SI-ID: 282388480
This book explores a fairly unique wine marketing topic by examining the role and historic function of Wine Queens and Wine Kings. The author charts the history of Wine Queens in Europe, the Americas and Asia, while also focusing on cases from Slovenia. The difference between Wine Queens and Beauty Queens is also described in light of marketing approaches used in the wine industry. The book concludes with a thoughtful chapter on the role of objectification of women in profit seeking.
COBISS.SI-ID: 57407842
Stemming from an analysis of unwitching procedures based on fieldwork material from eastern Slovenia, the paper aims to explore the role of the unwitchers and argues that they were crucial in helping women resolve the tensions they were facing due to the demands imposed on them by the traditional gender roles and in upholding their position in the community when it was threatened.
COBISS.SI-ID: 58807394
The author deals with responses of Bosnian-Hercegovinian women, especially Muslim, on dominant religious discourses which became much stronger during last decades.
COBISS.SI-ID: 57533794
Perceiving work competition as a strategic practice of a selected social system the article examines the relationship between work competition and (public) holidays in the period of the first five-year economic plan of the Federal People’s Republic of Yugoslavia (1947−1952). This relationship was mutual and centrally planned as well as directed: holidays helped spreading the idea of competitive way of working as well as they helped structuring (working) time. On the other hand work competition helped rooting the new system of public holidays as well as it also structured holidays.
COBISS.SI-ID: 58102370