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Syncretic debris: from shared Bosnian saints to the ICTY courtroom
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Abstract This article is an anthropological postscript to the work of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), brought to a conclusion in 2017. Drawing on long-term fieldwork in Bosnia, I trace in the Tribunal's archives the strange afterlives of two shared and syncretic saints, ... view more
This article is an anthropological postscript to the work of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), brought to a conclusion in 2017. Drawing on long-term fieldwork in Bosnia, I trace in the Tribunal's archives the strange afterlives of two shared and syncretic saints, George and Elijah, their feasts and the religiously plural landscapes they encapsulated. Surfacing as debris after violent impact -displaced and disarticulated- they offer here a possibility of reading both along and against the grain of the archival expectations. I analyse the chartings of ethno-religious distinctions and the discourse of ‘historical enmities’ between Bosnian communities, with particular attention to the iterations of these arguments in the reports of ICTY's expert witnesses. This sustained invention of the absence of shared tradition, although productive of debris, is, I argue, continually countered by the emplacement of remnants into rekindled wholes.... view less
Classification
Ethnology, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnosociology
Free Keywords
Bosnia; festivals; syncretism; ICTY; debris
Document language
English
Publication Year
2018
Page/Pages
p. 79-109
Journal
EthnoScripts: Zeitschrift für aktuelle ethnologische Studien, 20 (2018) 1
Issue topic
Tradition, performance and identity politics in European festivals
ISSN
2199-7942
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed