Ethnological Research, No. 17, 2012.
Preliminary communication
Life on Two Locations: „a Sense of Place“ and How to Connect the Old and the New Homes
Marina Perić Kaselj
; Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies
Jadranka Galiot Kovačić
; Ministy of Culture Directorate for the Protection of Cultural Heritage Cultural Heritage Conservation Department in Vukovar
Abstract
This paper is based on in-depth interviews with three informants who are
living on two locations – in a fl at and in a summer cottage, or in a fl at and
in an old family house respectively. It discusses the qualitative concept of the
living space (home). It deals with questions about the relationship between
one’s identity and living space (home), as well as of the change in roles, quality
and the way of life related to the specifi c location (the old or the new homes),
through permanent interfusion and comparability between the old and the new
homes. „The sense of place“ (home) is seen as a social construction, as a place
of living, feeling, sharing, performing one’s rituals, reviving the tradition, as
well as a place of one’s personal remembrances.
Keywords
primary residence; secondary residence; weekly migration; place of living; Vukovar-Syrmia County
Hrčak ID:
97812
URI
Publication date:
28.12.2012.
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