Mikhaylova, Alena Alekseevna. «Montenegrin cap» as a visual chronicle: to the problem of reflection of history in ethnographic artifacts (on materials of the Russian Museum of Ethnography) - Studia Slavica Et Balcanica Petropolitana

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For citation: Mikhaylova, Alena Alekseevna. «Montenegrin cap» as a visual chronicle: to the problem of reflection of history in ethnographic artifacts (on materials of the Russian Museum of Ethnography), in Studia Slavica et Balcanica Petropolitana. 2018. № 2. Pp. 57-79. DOI https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu19.2018.204.

Title of the article	«Montenegrin cap» as a visual chronicle: to the problem of reflection of history in ethnographic artifacts (on materials of the Russian Museum of Ethnography)
Authors	Mikhaylova, Alena Alekseevna — PhD in History, Leading Researcher, the Russian Museum of Ethnography, Department of Belorussian, Ukranian and Moldavian Ethnography, St. Petersburg, Russia, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.; Scopus ID 57193093528
In the section	Commentarii / Articles
Year	2018	Issue	2	Pages	57-79
Type of article	RAR	Index UDK; BBK	391.4; 79.1	Index DOI	https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu19.2018.204
Abstract	The article raises the problem of memorizing the history through objectified forms of culture. Special attention is paid to the study of the reflection of political and ethnocultural transformations in ethnographic museum artifacts. The study is focused on several samples of Montenegrin men’s caps from the middle of the XIX - the end of the XX century from the collections of Russian Museum of Ethnography. Mentioned artifacts are associated with the traditional culture of the Montenegrins. Viewed in conjunction with written and illustrative sources, as well as similar artifacts from the collections of other museums, they demonstrate their important role in representing the Montenegrin national identity. The Montenegrin cap as the element of the national costume became popular among the population of Montenegro during the formation of the statehood of the country in the middle of XIX century. In its decoration the cap expresses the political experience of the ethnic community. The cap appears as a dynamic cultural phenomenon which has demonstrated its semantic and functional variability in a last couple of centuries as well as the way of the reflection of the spiritual world in the world of objects. The source study of museum artifacts provides an ample of opportunities for their interpretation. The theoretical reconstruction of the ambient in which those artifacts have been used contributes to the multidimensional vision of the historical picture. Observing the metamorphosis of the decoration of the
Keywords	source study, heritage, museum, identity, Montenegrin cap, representation, ethnicity
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