The Montenegrin Warrior Tradition (eBook)

The Montenegrin Warrior Tradition analyzes identity debates that have developed in the Montenegrin public regarding the question of Montenegro's accession to NATO and explores how narratives created for that purpose, typically representative of 'culture wars', have been linked with Montenegrin identity, history, and Montenegrin masculinity.

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Montenegro has been a much neglected part of former Yugoslavia. The Montenegrin Warrior Tradition aims to scrutinize the identity debates in Montenegrin public opinion over the question of membership to NATO and to explore how narratives created for that purpose have been linked with Montenegrin identity, history, tradition, and the concept of Montenegrin masculinity. The intertwining of the question of identity with that of NATO membership, and the inseparability of these issues from the context of quotidian politics produces an array of controversies among Montenegrin citizens. The book interprets the public and private debates about Montenegro joining NATO through the prism of anthropological studies of identity; in particular those focused on a general theory of culture and the anthropology of multiculturalism.