essay
Recounting the dead: the rediscovery and redefinition of wartime massacres in late- and post-Communist Yugoslavia
Memory, history, and opposition under state socialism • Santa Fe, New Mexico • Published In 1994 • Pages: 167-184
By: Hayden, Robert M..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article discusses the resurgence of nationalism in Yugoslavia, long suppressed under the period of communist rule (1945-1990), and the use by the nationalists of 'secret or hidden histories' relevant to wartime massacres and atrocities first by Germans on Serbs and Croats, then by Serbs on Croats and vice versa, in order to break up and discredit the League of Communists of Yugoslavia (LCY) in each republic and in Yugoslavia itself. 'Thus in Yugoslavia in the 1980s and early 1990s, we can see the invocation and manipulation of hidden and oppositional histories from within and without the state socialist power structure' (p. 168). Hayden describes how the suppressed knowledge of the massacres were used to challenge the version of events that had been carefully constructed and officially approved during the communist period.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- History and culture change
- Political behavior
- Warfare
- Aftermath of combat
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Serbs
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1997
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Europe
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southeastern Europe
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1996
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1980s-1992
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Serbia
- NotesAdditional notes
- Robert M. Hayden
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 93046594
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Serbs