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- Title
REMEMBERING NACHBARSCHAFT: NARRATIVES OF SOCIAL ORGANIZATION AND CULTURAL MEMORY AMONG SAXONS IN MICHELSBERG AND HELTAU (SOUTHERN TRANSYLVANIA).
- Authors
CONSTANTIN, MARIN
- Abstract
My article is written in accordance with the narratives of contemporary Saxon inhabitants of Michelsberg and Heltau in Southern Transylvania, who emphasize their Nachbarschaft institution as a continously-referential folk heritage in post 1989 Romania. As a recurrent discursive theme, Nachbarschaft is particularly significant among Saxons to the extent they use to frame it within broader evocations about their collective identity and tradition. Based on recent ethnographic accounts, I argue that remembering Nachbarschaft could be seen as a persistent performative memory of Transylvanian Saxons, echoing as such their needs of cultural survival as a decreasing ethnicity in the 2000s Romania.
- Subjects
TRANSYLVANIA (Romania); SAXONS; SOCIAL history
- Publication
Revista Romana de Sociologie, 2015, Vol 26, Issue 5/6, p387
- ISSN
1224-9262
- Publication type
Article