Shifting and/or Bargained Identities

Abstract

Identities are considered what is one’s head as symbolic bondage to imagined communities. We much believe that what we are, is self cinciousness of sex, race, religion, attachments to language, topoi or specific “logic of things” which often turns culturally embedded. Identities may be also objectively imposed. One cant help being what others expect him to be. At least not for long. Stigmas care for mimicris in support of shifting identities. They turn selfing into most exotic new shapes and forms. Any idea what Lapland means? Nothing but “the land of them over there” (the distanced, less significant other). Chukcha1 stories describing oddities of indegenous cultures integrated into Soviet melting pot – as in the ex socialist era illustrate these “double lensed” self orientalizing patterns. The latter were instrumentalized as to balance among opressive “regimes of truth” and maintain human dignities endangered.