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Author Dimova, Rozita

Title Ethno-baroque : materiality, aesthetics, and conflict in modern-day Macedonia / Rozita Dimova
Published New York : Berghahn Books, 2013

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Contents Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Material losses Barok style; Chapter 1-From past necessity to contemporary friction: Negotiating minorities through migration; Chapter 2-Lost objects, gained privileges; Chapter 3-""Modern"" masculinities: Emancipation through education; Chapter 4-Topography of spatial and temporal ruptures: (Im)materialities of (post)socialism; Chapter 5-The Baroque effect: Central Skopje between antiquitization and Christianization; Conclusion; Index
Summary In post-1991 Macedonia, Barok furniture came to represent affluence and success during a period of transition to a new market economy. This furniture marked the beginning of a larger Baroque style that influenced not only interior decorations in people's homes but also architecture and public spaces. By tracing the signifier Baroque, the book examines the reconfiguration of hierarchical relations among (ethnic) groups, genders, and countries in a transnational context. Investigating how Baroque has come to signify larger social processes and transformations in the current rebrandin
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Ethnology -- Macedonia.
Material culture -- Macedonia
National characteristics, Macedonian.
Ethnic conflict -- Macedonia
Architecture, Baroque -- Macedonia
Furniture, Baroque -- Macedonia
Macedonians.
Macedonians (Ancient)
HISTORY -- Europe -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Macedonians (Ancient)
Macedonians
Architecture, Baroque
Ethnic conflict
Ethnic relations
Ethnology
Furniture, Baroque
Material culture
National characteristics, Macedonian
Social conditions
Das Barocke
Ethnizität
Nationalcharakter
Sozialer Wandel
Sachkultur
SUBJECT Macedonia -- Ethnic relations
Macedonia -- Social conditions
Subject Europe -- Macedonia
Makedonien
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781782380412
1782380418