Abstract
Abstract The A lka is a traditional game in C roatia, held to commemorate the victory of the local warriors of the region of C etina over the O ttoman army in 1715. The C roatian nationalist discourse of the 1990s tried to reinvent the A lka as symbol of a certain national identity, by nationalising this local event and emphasising its religious aspect. In a period of just over a decade, however, the project of reinventing the A lka has failed completely. This paper analyses the reinvention of the A lka and its failure in order to argue that concrete cases of invented tradition are context dependent and may encounter practical limits.
Keywords
Victory
Context (archaeology)
Nationalism
Symbol (formal)
Sociology
Order (exchange)
National identity
Political science
Law
Economics
History
Politics
Philosophy
Archaeology
Subject Areas
Philippine History and Culture
·Anthropology ·Social Sciences
Balkans: History, Politics, Society
·Cultural Studies ·Social Sciences
Sport and Mega-Event Impacts
·Sociology and Political Science ·Social Sciences
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