Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Baskar, Bojan ; Weber, Irena
  • Exordium
  • The telling of tales in oral cultures and in the oral tradition / Goody, Jack
  • Power, borders, landscapes
  • Night of power / Lindisfarne, Nancy
  • The centrality of borders: Euro-Mediterranean instances / Driessen, Henk
  • Abroad and at home: exploring the politics, the poetics and the principle of collage / Greverus, Ina-Maria
  • Understanding postsocialism: new property relationships and their consequences / Hann, Chris
  • A landscape of powers in Highland Papua, ca. 1899-1917 / Hirsch, Eric
  • Catholic crosses, and Jewish void: the polish landscape and its religious dimension / Kubica, Grazyna
  • Identities made and remade
  • Is there an Alpine identity? Some ethnological observations / Johler, Reinhard
  • From "culture area" to collective identity: on the ecology of identity formation in the three border region / Minnich, Robert Gary
  • Constructing difference, identifying the self: a case of Croatian repatriates from Serbia / Zmegac, Jasna Capo
  • "The chosen people" in the Balkans / Todorova-Pirgova, Iveta
  • Gypsy musicians and folk music research in the territories of former Yugoslavia / Pettan, Svanibor
  • The splendour and misery of ethnographic museums / Mencin, Ralf Ceplak
  • A contribution to understanding of museums: why would the museums count? / Sola, Tomislav
  • Slavic beliefs
  • Between fantasy and scholarship: on alleged early Slavic deities / Moszynski, Leszek
  • Master of the Wolves in Slavic folklore / Mencej, Mirjam.