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Ethno-Cultural Diversity
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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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Ethnocultural Diversity in the Balkans and the Caucasus, pp. 321-334, 2023/02/09
Greek communities around the Black Sea and in the hinterland developed remarkable cultural activity in the period in the fin de siècle, mostly in theater performances and musical or literary events. This activity can be divided, like in the Balkan area, into professional performances by itinerant theatre companies and local amateur troupes, often linked to the Greek schools present in these communities. In both cases, the topics of the repertory were patriotic: In the regions of the Ottoman Empire in a more cryptic way, in Russian territories and the lands of the Balkan peninsula, a straight forward enhancement of national identity through the cultivation of language and historical consciousness (school festivals celebrating the national day). For the itinerant Greek companies based in Athens or Constantinople, which mostly played sentimental or folkloristic and historical plays, this touring activity was a survival strategy as local Greek communities were eager to see theatre performances in their native language covering traditional Greek topics. This was not the case with French companies of Italian opera troupes. Professional and amateur theater production in Greek had a specific cultural function of cultivating ethnic consciousness and native language in a foreign country.
Keywords: Theatre Performances, Amateur Theater, Touring Companies, Professional Theatre