SERBS IN CANADA: ETHNIC SYMBOLS AND RITUALS PRACTIS

Abstract

In this paper are presented the results of a part of the research carried out in the province of Ontario (Canada) in 1984. The Serbian emigrants had complex adaptational experiences, thus creating and gaining social positions as integrated members of the Canadian ethnical and cultural laboratory. In their everyday communication, the emigrants become participants in the creation and activity of separate social enclaves as forms of associating, grouping, getting together and being different. Within these processes, creating, shaping and expressing personal and collective consciousness of ethnic affilation and origin have special prominence. This paper discuss on the correlation between symbolic elements and symbolic action in the creation and demostration of the identity field of an individual and a group of emmigrants of Serbian origin living in Canada.