Rozita Dimova. Ethno-Baroque: Materiality, Aesthetics and Conflict in Modern-Day Macedonia. Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2013

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Fabio Mattioli
The City University of New York, The Graduate Center

Abstract

Clearly written, with abundance of historical and ethnographic details, the book utilizes an anthropological perspective to discuss the complicate historical construction of ethnicity. Dimova argues that ethnic identities have to be understood in the light of past and present political economic factors. Discussing the conflicts, misunderstandings, and tensions between ethnic Albanians and ethnic Macedonians in Kumanovo, the second largest city of the Republic of Macedonia, Dimova shows that unexpected domains of social life, like consumption, have a central role to play in shaping identity.

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Construction of Ethnicity, Relations, Albanians and Macedonians, Migration, Materiality


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Mattioli, F. (2015). Rozita Dimova. Ethno-Baroque: Materiality, Aesthetics and Conflict in Modern-Day Macedonia. Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2013. Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research, 7(2), 210–212. Retrieved from https://soclabo.org/index.php/laboratorium/article/view/539
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Vol. 7 No. 2 (2015)
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Book Reviews
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Fabio Mattioli, The City University of New York, The Graduate Center

Department of Anthropology

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