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The Unmaking of an Ethnic Collectivity

Transylvania's Germans

Bibliographic Data

ID2465713
AuthorsKatherine Verdery (0000-0002-1254-852X, Johns Hopkins University, corresponding author)
Year1985
Volume12
Issue1
Pages62-83
Publication date1985-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Ethnologist (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0094-0496 • E-ISSN: 1548-1425
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1525/ae.1985.12.1.02a00040
OpenAlexW2045725255
LanguageEN
Citations received14
References cited14

This paper considers why Germans in Romania exhibit so much less corporate ethnic identity than they have exhibited in the past or than another of Romania's ethnic minorities, Hungarians, exhibits in the present. Specifically socialist policies do not adequately explain the decline in German ethnicity, which is more fully accounted for - as is the contrasting Hungarian example - by (1) the groups' historical positions, which influenced their present situations and self-conceptions, and (2) an international context that differentially affects the form and reproduction of their identities, [ethnicity, Eastern Europe, social structure, history, social change

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Context (archaeology · Ethnic group · Ethnic history · Ethnology · German · Identity (music · Political science · Reproduction · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · History · Philosophy

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Unique citing works14
Citations per year0,36
Citation span1987 - 2026 (40)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 13
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