Serbian Dreambook: National Imaginary in the Time of Milošević PDF
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Serbian Dreambook New Anthropologies of Europe Serbian Dreambook National Imaginary in the Time of MiIoevic CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I iX Introduction / 1 ONE Belgrade / 15 TWO Serbia's Position in European Geopolitical Imaginings / 42 THREE Highlanders and Lowlanders / 76 FOUR Tender-hearted Criminals and the Reverse Pygmalion / 94 FIVE Serbian Jeremiads: Too Much Character, Too Little Kultur / 115 six Glorious Pasts and Imagined Continuities: The Most Ancient People / 144 SEVEN Narrative Cycles: From Kosovo to Jadovno / 168 EIGHT "The Wish to Be a Jew'; or, The Power of the Jewish Trope/ 198 NINE Garbled Genres: Conspiracy Theories, Everyday Life, and the Poetics of Opacity / 211 TEN Mille vs. Transition: A Super Informant in the Slushy Swamp of Serbian Politics / 237 Conclusion: Chrono-tropes and Awakenings 1249 NOTES / 259 BIBLIOGRAPHY / 281 FILMOGRAPHY / 299 INDEX / 301 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This book has been long in coming. Some people influenced it directly by reading and commenting on the text as it slowly unfolded, others by providing models of how to think which I absorbed along the way, and still others by supporting and nurturing me in many material and nonmaterial ways. Visibly or invisibly they are all present in the text. I was blessed with extraordinary teachers. Miloljub Peric, my high school philosophy professor, gave me the first lesson in the art of teaching; Jovica Stanojevic, my first aikido instructor, taught me about laughing; Dejan Razic taught me Japanese as if it were an easy language; Elemire Zolla, the master of delicate and luminous imagination, graced me with his friendship; and Kostas Kazazis, a Balkan linguist extraordinaire, guided my first steps in this project. Daphne Berdahl was my elder sister at the University of Chicago. They are no longer with us, but they are a part of who I became. At Chicago George W. Stocking Jr. and Carol Stocking first took me under their wing. George guided me through my entire graduate career both firmly and with great generosity. He was the only one to steer my English toward greater economy (I am not there yet); his seminars were the best I ever had; and he fed me for more than a decade. His cooking is superb. With James W. Fernandez I found the most congenial way to practice anthropology. I basked in his and Renate Fernandez's abundant conviviality and partook of many a legendary garlic soup at their home. Raymond D. Fogelson kept me connected with psychology and lavished upon me his time and his encyclopedic mind. Susan Gal understood, often better than I could, what I wanted to do, and then helped me do it better. Victor Friedman, with his prodigious knowledge of all things Balkan, provided guidance and generosity that extended much beyond academic advising. Outside my doctoral committee, Don Levine was my Sensei and friend both on and off the mat. He gave me my first lessons in teaching Chicago-style in the College Social Science Core course Wealth, Power and Virtue, but it was in the
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