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the unmaking of an ethnic collectivity: Transylvania's Germans
Author(s) -
VERDERY KATHERINE
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1525/ae.1985.12.1.02a00040
Subject(s) - ethnic group , german , context (archaeology) , gender studies , identity (music) , sociology , ethnic history , reproduction , political science , ethnology , anthropology , history , archaeology , philosophy , aesthetics , ecology , biology
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]