For the Aromanians Balkan population, the process of passage from an almost entirely oral culture, to a written one, began at the end of the 20th century. Analysing this process allows seizing the modalities of generating new cultural configurations as well as the mechanisms of their production.
Paper long abstract:
In the case of Aromanians, native population in the Balkans, the process of passage from an almost entirely oral culture, to a written one, began no earlier than the end of the 20th century. While the Aromanian group identity has been built between the Romanian and the Greek propaganda in the Balkans, the new European policies regarding the ethnic minorities led to the (indirect) recognition by the EU, in 1997, of Aromanians as distinct ethnic group, with distictive language, different from the Romanian one, to whom it has been historically associated.
Analysing the processes triggered by these political and social settings allows seizing today the modalities of generating new cultural configurations, their sources, their models, as well as the mechanisms of their production.