The contributions to this second volume focus equally on tangible and intangible dimensions of Southeast European regions. They represent the region both as a territorial unit and as a mental construct laden with symbolic meaning. The papers demonstrate that regions, be it the entire Balkan Peninsula or be it a small area somewhere in the mountains, can become palpable, visible, and audible. They can produce culture and they can, at the same time, be products of culture: regions can be constructs of those who inhabit them – or of spatial planning from „above“. In any case, both the physical and the symbolic regions are a very relevant issue in Southeast Europe, serving purposes of spatial, ethnic, religious or even professional identification, or of politically motivated border-drawing.
The editors: Klaus Roth is Professor emeritus of European Ethnology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich; Vesna Vučinić-Nešković is Professor of Urban Anthropology and Material Culture at the University of Belgrade.
Editorial
Region and Cultural Production
Aleksandra Marković, Amsterdam Goran Bregović, the Balkan Music Composer
Evgenia Krăsteva-Blagoeva, Sofia Tasting the Balkans: Food and Identity
Nikolai Vukov, Miglena Ivanova, Sofia Food Labels, Meal Specialties, and Regional Identities: The Case of Bulgaria
Danijela Velimirović, Belgrade Region, Identity and Cultural Production: Yugoslav Fashion in the “National Style”
Alexey Pamporov, Sofia The Regional and the Subgroup Features of the Kinship Terminology of Roma/Gypsies in Bulgaria
Constructing and Deconstructing Regional Identities
Eckehard Pistrick, Halle Migration Memories in the Borderlands: The Constructions of Regional Identity and Memory in Zagoria (Southern Albania) through Place and Sound
Simona Adam, Timişoara The Construction of Banat Regional Identity through Life-Story Interviews
Melinda Dincă, Laurenţiu Ţîru, Timişoara Regional and Ethnic Identity in the Rural Area of Timiş County, Romania
Mirjana Pavlović, Belgrade Regional Identity: The Serbs in Timişoara
Sanja Zlatanović, Belgrade The Literary Opus of Bora Stanković and the Construction of Local Identity
Karolina Bielenin-Lenczowska, Warsaw The Construction of Identity in a Multiethnic Community: A Case Study on the Torbeši of Centar Župa Commune, Western Macedonia (FYROM)
Nevena Dimova, Sofia Identity of the Nation(s), Identity of the State: Politics and Ethnicity in the Republic of Macedonia, 1990–2000
Petko Hristov, Sofia Trans-border Exchange of Seasonal Workers in the Central Regions of the Balkans (19th – 20th Century)
Planning in Metropolitan Regions
Dora Alexa-Morcov, Bucarest Les jeux de la construction d’une région métropolitaine dans la Roumanie après le 1989: Le cas de la zone métropolitaine de Bucarest
Tamara Maričić, Jasna Petrić, Belgrade Physical Expansion and Subregional Disparities in the Growing Metropolitan Region of Belgrade
Addresses of authors and editors
Instructions to Authors