mersiowsky - 2-17-2018 at 01:06 PM
Lětopis Abstract 2017 2: Keller, Ines and Theresa Jacobs: The Sorbs in Germany: Cultural Practices and Cultural Security
Cultural practices of ethnic minorities provide great potential for self-reassurance and identity constructs. People look for strategies to overcome
crises, especially in times of social upheaval. Transformation of cultural practices can then be seen just as much in personal lives as in the staging
of collective cultural practices, which not uncommonly have an ambivalent character. They are capable equally of generating cultural security and
creating insecurity. Using the staging of Sorbian folk dances and access to the biographies of women who wear folk costumes, the following questions
are pursued: which strategies in dealing with new social conditions were developed by the performers? How do changes in the interpretation of
"traditional“ patterns come about? How do such culturally interpreted references find legitimization? We show how coming closer to the cultural
heritage of a minority can foster cultural security.