The Likeness: Semblance and Self in Slovene Society Volume 13

by Gretchen Bakke

Book Overview

The Likeness is a close ethnographic study of subjectivity in the former Yugoslav republic of Slovenia. In this highly imaginative work, the author argues that much of what matters in Slovenia plays out on surfaces--of people and things, systems and locations--rendering the complexity of expression external and legible, but rarely unique or original. Here likenesses are everywhere in bloom and powerfully deployed. Moving blithely from Slovenia's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520320042
• ISBN13: 9780520320048
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.0"