Konstruiranje i dekonstruiranje identiteta: osobni narativi triju generacija bosansko-hrvatske obitelji

Tripalo, Rafaela. (2016). Konstruiranje i dekonstruiranje identiteta: osobni narativi triju generacija bosansko-hrvatske obitelji. Diploma Thesis. Filozofski fakultet u Zagrebu, Chair of Anthropology
Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology. [mentor Hornstein Tomić, Caroline and Pletenac, Tomislav].

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Abstract

Identity (either personal or collective) is formed by different outside factors and is transmitted through the upbringing and socialization. Even the smallest changes in the cultural, socio-historical context over short periods of time dramatically influence the identity and its personal definitions and understanding. The identity is, therefore, not easily framed and foreseeable, and it is rather constructed under the influence of the historical and the socio-cultural context. The changes in identity that occur in only one generation of the same family are already enough to paint a bigger picture of the historical and cultural movements of the period, and are therefore in itself harbingers of significant historical and paradigmatic changes in the wider context. This paper relies on three personal narratives by the members of the same family, belonging to three consecutive generations, but each in their own context. They narrate their present personal stories of life during Yugoslavian socialism and communism, Croatian nationalist fascism, the wartime in both Bosnia and Croatia, and finally, the life of the Croatian diaspora in Austria. In their stories, we observe and compare identity constructing elements, significantly different, even though they belong to the same family.

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