A mosaic of archival closeness : anthropology of memories from the Pannonian to the Adriatic Sea
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A Mosaic of Archival Closeness: Anthropology of Memories from the Pannonian to the Adriatic Sea This publication deals with the role of archival materials as a source in the analysis of cultural phenomena in the historical perspective. In accordance with its thematic concept, i.e., the issues it addresses, this publication represents a specific comparative synthesis of different aspects of life in two spatial contexts, with the acceptance of approximately the same chronological framework. In using archival material as the primary source, and in the context of ethnological and anthropological interpretation, we have tried to point out the range of different segments of life during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, both in the area of the Pannonian Plain and in the Bay of Kotor. The book places special emphasis on the problems of migrations and military activities that took place in the territories on which the research was focused. Special attention was also paid to the culture of clothing and expressions used for certain articles of clothing. In addition to this, particularly notable is the fact that the book features exceptionally valuable archival materials in the form of analysed handwritten manuscripts, written in an archaic script in German and Italian and dating back to 18th and 19th centuries. These manuscripts are stored in Archives of the Bay of Kotor and Archives of Vojvodina. This publication was conceived as an incentive to future “mining through the archives of the epochs past” or discovering of the wealth of information contained in the vast amount of the archival materials in archives in Serbia and abroad.
