Defeated by the System: The Structure and Significance of the Personal Stories of Hybrid Transition Losers

  • Dragana Antonijević Department of Ethnology and Anthropology Faculty of Philosophy University of Belgrade
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21301/eap.v4i3.3
Keywords:
personal and family stories of loss, legends, narrative-semantic structure, hybrid transition, Serbia

Abstract

This paper presents an analysis of the structure and an interpretation of personal and family stories about the loss of property, money, jobs and status in the period of blocked transformation or hybrid transition (a term proposed by the author), while also briefly outlining the reasons for the choice of the "hybrid" metaphor to describe the specific socio-economic, political and historical situation in Serbia in the 1990s. The theoretical basis for the analysis has been provided by the decades-long folkloristic and anthropological studies of personal stories and life histories, the analysis of the narrative structure of legends, and also by theoretical and practical analyses of the process of transition. The emphasis is on the study of losers’ narratives, through a referential and evaluative dimension, as a life experience in 1990s Serbia.

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Published
2009-12-10
How to Cite
Antonijević, Dragana. 2009. “Defeated by the System: The Structure and Significance of the Personal Stories of Hybrid Transition Losers”. Issues in Ethnology and Anthropology 4 (3), 47- 65. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.21301/eap.v4i3.3.
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Vol 4 No 3 (2009): Issues in Ethnology and Anthropology
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Scientific Articles
Copyright (c) 2009 Dragana Antonijević

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