• Ioana Aminian Jazi - Thede Kahl (eds)

Ethno-Cultural Diversity
in the Balkans and the Caucasus

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Ioana Aminian Jazi
is a PhD candidate in Linguistics at the University of Vienna

Thede Kahl
is Professor of South Slavic and Southeast European Studies at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena.


This book brings together studies from a variety of different fields in an attempt to illuminate current multidisciplinary comparative research on ethno-cultural diversity in the Balkan and the Caucasus regions. The articles cover a wide variety of topics and include studies mapping the ethnic identity, archaeology and linguistics of these two very diverse geographical areas. Particular attention is paid to aspects of ethnic identity, migration and contact between the different ethnic groups and to parallel processes resulting from the interactions between minorities and majorities in the two cultural regions. Comprehensive research dealing with the transformations of everyday culture (music, theatre, material culture) and social changes (the ratio of men to women, gender studies, socialist feminist politics, a return to patriarchal societies) has been scarce for these regions, since the focus of research was previously directed to more specific topics. The present volume aims to bridge this gap, in order to contribute to a better understanding of similarities, differences, and transformations that characterize these areas, and to encourage further in-depth comparative research.

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Internationale Experten verschiedener Disziplinen diskutieren in diesem Buch die ethno-kulturelle Vielfalt auf dem Balkan und im Kaukasus. Die Beiträge reichen von der ethnischen Kartographie über archäologische Einblicke bis hin zu sprachwissenschaftlichen Fragestellungen der beiden ethnisch, sprachlich und kulturell sehr vielfältigen Areale. Ein besonderer Fokus liegt auf Aspekten der ethnischen Identität und Migration sowie des Kontakts zwischen den verschiedenen ethnischen Gruppen, vor allem zwischen Minderheiten und Mehrheiten, die die beiden untersuchten Kulturräume bewohnen. Im Zentrum stehen dabei die Diskussionen über den Einfluss der ethno-kulturellen Vielfalt auf die sozialen und politischen Realitäten auf dem Balkan und im Kaukasus. Die multidisziplinären Fallstudien betrachten parallele Prozesse auf zwei gegenüberliegenden Seiten des Schwarzen Meeres. Umfassende Forschungen, die sich mit Transformationen der Alltagskultur (Musik, Theater, materielle Kultur) und gesellschaftlichen Veränderungen (Gender Studies, sozialistische feministische Politik, Rückkehr zu patriarchalen Gesellschaften) auseinandersetzen, sind ausgesprochen rar und konzentrieren sich zumeist auf einzelne Phänomene. Der vorliegende Band möchte diese Lücke schließen, zu einem besseren Verständnis einiger Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede dieser Kulturräume und der laufenden Transformationen beitragen sowie zu weiterführender vergleichender Forschung einladen.

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“Dancing” Ethnicity in the Caucasus and in the Balkans: Kosovo Circassians in the Russian Federation

    Marieta Schneider

Ethnocultural Diversity in the Balkans and the Caucasus, pp. 293-320, 2023/02/09

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Abstract

Circassians (Адыгэ/Adyge) are an indigenous population of the Northwest Caucasus. As a result of the Russian conquest of the Caucasus in the 19th century, most of the Circassians were forced to flee their homeland. They were resettled in various parts of the Ottoman Empire, mainly in Anatolia, the Balkans (today Bulgaria, Serbia, Kosovo, Romania, North Macedonia and Greece) and the Middle East. An estimated 250,000–400,000 Circassians are believed to have arrived in the Balkans. In Kosovo there were approximately 12,000–40,000 Circassians. Due to the political turmoil in the Balkans and the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, Circassians subsequently left in several waves to go to the Ottoman Empire, afterwards Turkey. As a result, the number of Circassians in Kosovo was reduced to 400–500 people, living in a small number of villages between Priština and Vučitrn, such as Donje Stanovci, Velika Reka and Miloševo. In their historical homeland, the North Caucasus of the Russian Federation, the Circassians number approximately 700,000 people and live primarily in three North Caucasian republics (previously autonomous regions in the Soviet Union): Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachay-Cherkessia and Adygeya. However, most of the ethnic Circassians (3–5 million people) are in the state of diaspora, living predominantly in Turkey, the Middle East, Europe and the USA. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the fall of the Iron Curtain in the early 1990s about 2,000–3,000 Circassians from Turkey, Syria, Jordan, etc. have re-immigrated to the North Caucasus of the Russian Federation. As a result of the Kosovo conflict, 64 Kosovo Circassians families (about 160 people) migrated to the Republic of Adygeya in 1998/99. The migration of the Kosovo Circassians to the North Caucasus in 1998/1999 was the last mass exodus of Circassians from the Balkans. This article is a part of a PhD project dealing with the identification of Kosovo Circassians before and after migration to the Russian Federation. In this article, I would like to demonstrate and compare the role of culture (particularly ethnic dances and music) in the construction of ethnic identity among Circassians in Kosovo and in the Caucasus. The material for this article is based on in-depth interviews with members of the Kosovo Circassian community collected during field research in the Republic of Adygeya in the Russian Federation.

Keywords: Ethnicity, Music, Culture, Circassians, Kosovo, Caucasus