Conceptualization, strategies and realization of ethnic/national identity in historical discourse

This paper discusses conceptualization of ethnic/national identity among the Serbs in Timisoara and Banat, both on the level of individual and that of collective within historical discourse. In addition, the paper analyzes diverse strategies that were developed by the individuals and the community during many centuries of inhabitance of the multi-ethnic area of Banat, in formation, realization and preservation of ethnicity.