The present analysis shows that when talking about Sloveneness in the ex-Yugoslav former Hapsburg areas outside Slovenia there were continuous discourses concentrating on less or more distant histories of immigration into the new geographically separated areas, which operated externally as distinguishing the newcomers from the natives. This type of discourse lies at the very core of the problem, but at the same time it is the pathway to an alternative understanding of ‘ethnic Sloveneness’. The new way of understanding this phenomenon allows for better approach to cultural artefacts studies, in our case the ‘gibanica’ as a podium for production and reproduction of nationalism.
COBISS.SI-ID: 12200013
The main goal of the paper is to stress the definitions, characteristics and the structure of ethnic economies. The article as well discusses the role of specific material products that are symbolically very high valued among ethnic or immigrant communities.
COBISS.SI-ID: 34594093