CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2011
| Author | Ordaz-Nemeth, Andrea |
|---|---|
| Title | Sailing the Waves of Assimilation: Identity Anchors of the Moldavian Csango |
| Summary | In this thesis I draw from Brubaker’s cognitive approach to ethnicity to argue that the Csango survived past waves of ethnic and linguistic assimilation not by resistance, but by displaying malleability in their collective identity-construction, which is anchored by their Roman Catholic faith and their Csango dialect. This process is observable in the differences of ethnic and metalinguistic awareness in three generations of the southeastern Csango Moldavian village of Arini/Magyarfalu, the site where this research was carried out. Each Csango generation has managed to socially adapt to a different stage of their local social and political context, while maintaining the identity links with the previous one, by rethinking how they categorize themselves in relation to others. |
| Supervisor | Naumescu, Vlad; Dafinger, Andreas |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2011/ordaz-nemeth_andrea.pdf |
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