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The Penitente Brotherhood: Patriarchy and Hispano-Catholicism in New Mexico

The political strategy of the authors is “to gaze back at those who gaze at them in order to reverse the panoptical process of the center” (p. 19). The authors mime the etic perspective of Western intellectuals qua colonizers, writing sometimes as if being cryptic were tantamount to dialectical reasoning. Because the authors’ irony does not overcome the arbitrary, it remains Pharisaic and cynical. Only a few, for instance, Milica Bakić-Hayden and Ugo Vlaisavljević, playfully engage the tension between the emic and etic perspective of the Balkans in order to transcend the paradoxes that arise from the competing perspectives. For several authors, the NATO bombing of Serbia effectively masks the need to reflect on the recent past. Bosnia-Herzegovina was a country with four and a half million inhabitants. During the war, a quarter of a million were killed, a quarter of a million were maimed or injured, a quarter of a million were held in concentration camps, and two and a half million were driven from their homes. Balkan As Metaphor expresses little or no sympathy for the tragedy that occurred.