REMEMBERING NACHBARSCHAFT: NARRATIVES OF SOCIAL ORGANIZATION AND CULTURAL MEMORY AMONG SAXONS IN MICHELSBERG AND HELTAU (SOUTHERN TRANSYLVANIA

REMEMBERING NACHBARSCHAFT: NARRATIVES OF SOCIAL ORGANIZATION AND CULTURAL MEMORY AMONG SAXONS IN MICHELSBERG AND HELTAU (SOUTHERN TRANSYLVANIA

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...

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Main Author: MARIN CONSTANTIN
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Romanian Academy 2016-01-01
Series:Revista Română de Sociologie
Online Access:http://en.revistadesociologie.ro/sites/default/files/05-mconstantin.pdf
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spelling doaj-a06405a0521f48a6bfb731e36b786ee62020-11-25T01:24:01ZengRomanian AcademyRevista Română de Sociologie1224-92622016-01-015-6/2015387399REMEMBERING NACHBARSCHAFT: NARRATIVES OF SOCIAL ORGANIZATION AND CULTURAL MEMORY AMONG SAXONS IN MICHELSBERG AND HELTAU (SOUTHERN TRANSYLVANIAMARIN CONSTANTIN0“Francisc Rainer” Institute of Anthropology, Romanian AcademyMy 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 Romaniahttp://en.revistadesociologie.ro/sites/default/files/05-mconstantin.pdf
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REMEMBERING NACHBARSCHAFT: NARRATIVES OF SOCIAL ORGANIZATION AND CULTURAL MEMORY AMONG SAXONS IN MICHELSBERG AND HELTAU (SOUTHERN TRANSYLVANIA
Revista Română de Sociologie
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title REMEMBERING NACHBARSCHAFT: NARRATIVES OF SOCIAL ORGANIZATION AND CULTURAL MEMORY AMONG SAXONS IN MICHELSBERG AND HELTAU (SOUTHERN TRANSYLVANIA
title_short REMEMBERING NACHBARSCHAFT: NARRATIVES OF SOCIAL ORGANIZATION AND CULTURAL MEMORY AMONG SAXONS IN MICHELSBERG AND HELTAU (SOUTHERN TRANSYLVANIA
title_full REMEMBERING NACHBARSCHAFT: NARRATIVES OF SOCIAL ORGANIZATION AND CULTURAL MEMORY AMONG SAXONS IN MICHELSBERG AND HELTAU (SOUTHERN TRANSYLVANIA
title_fullStr REMEMBERING NACHBARSCHAFT: NARRATIVES OF SOCIAL ORGANIZATION AND CULTURAL MEMORY AMONG SAXONS IN MICHELSBERG AND HELTAU (SOUTHERN TRANSYLVANIA
title_full_unstemmed REMEMBERING NACHBARSCHAFT: NARRATIVES OF SOCIAL ORGANIZATION AND CULTURAL MEMORY AMONG SAXONS IN MICHELSBERG AND HELTAU (SOUTHERN TRANSYLVANIA
title_sort remembering nachbarschaft: narratives of social organization and cultural memory among saxons in michelsberg and heltau (southern transylvania
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series Revista Română de Sociologie
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publishDate 2016-01-01
description 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
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