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Summary: This article deals with a special group of vessels from the Early to Middle Bronze Age fortified hilltop settlement of Monkodonja near Rovinj on the west coast of the Istrian peninsula in Croatia, namely miniature vessels. The miniature vessels from Monkodonja can be divided into different groups of types: coarse thimble- or bowl-shaped objects, carefully crafted imitations of large vessels and various forms of very small, miniaturized vessels such as jugs, beakers and kantharoi. Analyses using energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) on white crusts discovered inside fragments of small drinking vessels suggest that the vessels once contained substances mixed with bone meal. With a view to archaeometric investigations on wall fragments with painting from Monkodonja as well as on residues from other Early and Middle Bronze Age and Aeneolithic miniature vessels, the various possible uses of the vessels are discussed. Also included are studies on the occurrence and use of miniature vessels in other regions of the Bronze Age communication area and in other time periods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The remains of the sewn boat known as Poreč 1, dating to the beginning of the 1st century BC, which was discovered, documented in situ and recovered in 2020, and then re-examined in 2021 prior to conservation treatment, adds new information to the already rich archaeological corpus of sewn boats from the northern Adriatic, providing valuable new data for defining local shipbuilding traditions. This article presents the results of the recent archaeological research, interdisciplinary study and preliminary reconstruction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research includes the hiking trails of Istria County as an element in the slow tourism supply. The official tourist supply of hiking trails managed by the Istrian Tourism Development Agency was analysed. The supply includes 84 trails with a total length of 859.4 kilometres, classified into six hiking regions. The objectives of the research were to determine the spatial layout and tourism supply of hiking trails as an element of slow tourism development in Istria County. Further objectives were to propose a more purposeful regionalization of existing trails as well as the distribution and definition of non-valorized trails. A complex method of field research of trails was used, including the methods of participant observation, autoethnography and mapping with the support of GIS. The hiking regions Rovinj and Poreč-Vrsar have the best tourism supply and opportunities for slow tourism development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of the article is to characterize the political platform of the Istrian Democratic Assembly (IDS), Croatia, as a political power advocating for the idea of regional autonomy for the Istrian peninsula. Based on the analysis of an extensive database of empirical materials, this article explores the main points of the political ideology of IDS, the nature of its relations with the political center of Croatia, as well as its international cooperation with European organizations and neighboring states. The comprehensive study of this political party and its history between 1991 and 2022 provides a detailed insight into the so-called Istrian regional movement. It is less evident when comparing to similar movements in Southern or Western Europe but still distinct due to its development within both the ethnopolitical context of the Balkan peninsula and the European regionalist movements. Thus the detailed study of this issue gives a detailed picture of internal political trends of the Balkans and the countries in the periphery of the European Union.

This article contains the results of the lithic analysis of assemblages from the Neolithic sites of Kargadur and Vižula in southern Istria, Croatia. The assemblages have been analysed in terms of reduction strategies and typology, with a special focus on raw material analysis and petrographic analysis. During the Early Neolithic, and especially the Middle Neolithic, raw materials circulated the Istrian peninsula, as evidenced by the presence of obsidian and other non-local (exogenous) chert at several sites. Obsidian is certainly an exotic material in this region, and items found at Kargadur come from the Aeolian islands. With these results we have tried to gain a better understanding of lithic production of the period, the approach of the Neolithic people to raw materials and the scope of the distribution network of high-quality chert.

The 16th-century records produced by the office of the Venetian Doge comprise a rich collection of official documents. They were written according to the rules of ars dictaminis and represent important testimonies in the field of history, diplomacy, culture, and other related areas. One example of such documents is the ducal letter from the Venetian Doge Francesco Donato, dated to the 16th century and kept in the State Archives in Pazin. The paleographic characteristics of the manuscript make the text partially legible because it was written on parchment that has a missing part. On the other hand, when it comes to diplomatic features, it can be concluded that it is an official epistle, written in a formal register according to the rules of ars dictaminis and ars notariae, characteristic of Renaissance Italian documents. It is precisely for that reason that this source represents a valuable testimony within the framework of cultural heritage, history, and diplomacy.

The Pauline Monastery in Sv. Petar u Šumi became the site of a miracle of lacrimation, i.e., the weeping of the image of the Blessed Virgin Mary located on the main altar of the monastery church. The lacrimation occurred on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1721, and lasted throughout the Christmas octave. This work represents the first attempt to analyze archival sources consisting of a later transcript of a part of the chronicle of this Pauline monastery, records from the Pauline Order chronicle, and a report from 1745 conducted by Bishop Gaspare Negri as part of his visitation to this parish in the Imperial part of Istria. Apart from contemporary Pauline historians, this event has not been studied in detail in later historiography, although art historians have touched upon it. The article presents the event of lacrimation and the reaction of the community as a new impetus for the development of pilgrimage to St. Peter. The recorded pilgrims, i.e., the data associated with them (social and family status, origin, education, miracles of healing, votive offerings), are subjected to detailed analysis. It is noted that the news of the lacrimation crossed the borders of the Habsburg Monarchy, and even residents of areas under Venetian administration in Istria were among those who made pilgrimages to Sv. Petar. The lacrimation of the Virgin's image led to the strengthening of this pilgrimage center of the Istrian Peninsula, which found devotees among broader segments of society. The pilgrimage area was limited to the boundaries of the peninsula. The article concludes with a table of data on pilgrims. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper presents the results of archaeological research at the site of Abri Kontija 002 during the seasons of 2022 and 2023. The research was conducted as part of the project “Prehistoric hunter-gatherers in Istria and adjacent regions: Patterns of Late Pleistocene lifestyle and mobility” (PREHISTRIA). During the excavations, numerous archaeological materials from the Late Pleistocene were found, samples were taken for various kinds of analyses (radiometric dating, sediment for aDNA analyses, geoarchaeological samples), geophysical measurements were conducted, etc. Preliminary results indicate a high intensity and certain continuity in the use of the site over several thousand years. The large presence of certain animal species, with bones showing signs of anthropogenic modifications (butchering marks, fragmentation, traces of fire), suggests a selection or focus on certain species (such as horses). The abundance of lithic finds which include all parts of the operational chain, points to the production of stone tools in situ; the finds of finished tools indicate their disposal at the site itself. The results of the analyses so far, as well as radiocarbon dates, indicate human activity in this part of the Adriatic during the Middle Upper Palaeolithic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The individual phases of the moon show us this nocturnal satellite subjected to the laws of a cycle of dying and rising. In ancient times different peoples honoured the moon and the stars and felt connected to them in some way. These two symbols are present in various ways on ancient coins such as Greek, Roman or even Celtic ones. The representation of these symbols on ancient coins is sometimes different and has different meanings. The symbol of the crescent moon with the star was revived again in the Middle Ages and was depicted in different ways on many European coins, especially in the 13th century AD. The depiction of the crescent moon with the star on these coins has a new meaning that relates to Christian symbolism. This article presents the history of this symbol, its meaning in antiquity and in the Middle Ages and its possible connection with astronomical events. In particular we analyzed a Trieste’s medieval coin minted in the second half of the 13th century by the bishop of the city of Trieste Arlongus, on which the symbol of the crescent moon with a six-pointed star is clearly visible.

ABSTRACTBadlands are specific landforms characterized by intense denudation processes. Their occurrence is mainly associated with clay-like materials and semi-arid and Mediterranean climates. This study presents the badland inventory for the Paleogene Pazin Basin located on the Istrian peninsula in Croatia. A total of 5,381 badland polygons, with a total area of 10.25 km2, were manually outlined, based on the visual interpretation of orthophotos at a scale of 1:5,000. The badlands in Istria are represented as small and isolated landforms and are exclusively associated with flysch and flysch-like materials, which cover a significant part of the study area (46%). The analysis of badland inventory shows that badlands are spatially not equally distributed but that their abundance is increasing from NW to SE part of the analyzed area. Additionally, the results of the spatial analysis indicate the positive relationship between badland occurrence and relative relief, which is presented via the relief-badland index.

This paper presents an original analysis and reinterpretation of two documents from 1238 and 1239, which are the first to mention the Koper statutes but have thus far received only sporadic mentions in historiography. The paper is further predicated on the study of archival sources of the Venetian Senate from the Senato Misti collection for the period after the Koper rebellion against Venice in 1348 up until 1394 when the Doge of Venice reconfirmed the Koper statutes. It is established that at least from 1238 the commune of Koper acted according to its already complex statutes. These were, with some further redactions, in force until 1348, when, due to the rebellion of Koper, they were disregarded by the Venetian authorities until 1358, along with the dissolution of the city's Major Council, and all of Koper's city offices were restructured. After 1358, the sources testify that the Venetians restored the Koper City Council and offices to their pre-rebellion state, but not the statutes, although some statutory provisions were taken into account in individual administrative or judicial cases. The Koper statutes officially came into force again in 1394, and a slightly modified redaction appeared in 1423. However, in both cases without the right to exercise criminal justice and the defence of the city, which remained in the exclusive domain of the Venetian podestà and captain until the end of the Venetian Republic in 1797. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article addresses the topic of coastal transformations through the lens of the critical heritage approach. It focuses on fish as a vehicle to assess how heritage as a particular type of imaginary and discourse conveys the social, cultural, political and economic transformations of the area. The two fish chosen to represent the heritage imaginaries in the Northeast Adriatic Bay of Piran are the wild mullet and farmed seabass. Both species are seen as local but each in its particular way. Mullet has acquired a local status by appearing annually in the Bay of Piran where local traditions developed around its catch. Farmed seabass became local through the process of domestication after it traversed large distances across the land to arrive in the Bay’s meshed cages. Through detailed ethnographies and textual and visual discourse analysis, the authors find an array of competing and complementary heritage imaginaries surrounding both fish. These imaginaries highlight frictions as a central part of the present-day life on the coast as well as unease about the future, and can be discerned in the tense relation between fishing and mariculture, the competing ideologies of the local, national and the global and the disappearance of previous ways of life in the face of rapid coastal transformation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This contribution explores the case of Yugoslav Albanians working in the private sector in late socialist Croatia and the ways in which their involvement in tourism and private business on the Adriatic coast was shaped by Yugoslavia's position in the Cold War context as well as domestic political dynamics. Such dynamics include the securitization of Albanians across the country following the violently quelled 1981 student demonstrations in Kosovo and the perennial suspicion held by the authorities towards private business in general, and Albanian owned private businesses in particular. The key argument advanced is that Albanian involvement in tourism and private business on the Adriatic coast, as well connections to diaspora communities in Western Europe, facilitated (micro)economic activity and mobility between nonaligned Yugoslavia, capitalist liberal democracies of Western Europe and, increasingly, by the 1980s, neighboring Warsaw Pact states. Methodologically, the research is based on the triangulation of archival documents, regional printed press and oral history interviews to demonstrate how Yugoslavia's liminal non-aligned position and market socialist economy offered opportunity (as well as notable constraints) to Albanian private business owners and their workforces in the Cold War era and its immediate aftermath. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper discusses the current language situation among the Italian minority in Slovenian Primorje in Koper. During the fi eld research conducted by the authors’ team, narratives in Italian were recorded from informants. Using discursive and structural-typological methods of analysis, the authors reveal that the linguistic reality of modern Koper is perceived as constantly changing, and the Italian spontaneous speech of respondents is intertwined with borrowings from the surrounding South Slavic languages. The modern language situation is the result of historical changes in the Istria region during the twentieth century. In addition to insertions and quotations in Slovenian, items from the Croatian language are found, refl ecting the linguistic situation of the Yugoslav period and the border position of the Slovenian Primorje. Special attention is paid to analysis of the language competence of Italians in the Slovenian language, among representatives of both the older and younger generations of students. In the Slovene language of Italians, a number of features peculiar to Slavic dialects in Italy are found, which allows us to discuss the same linguistic factors. It is possible to reconstruct the language competence of older people only partially on the basis of indirect evidence. There is a discrepancy between the rights guaranteed under the law (the use of the Italian language) and the linguistic reality faced by informants, which may be the result of both a decline in the prestige of Italian and of the small number of the Italian diaspora, part of which is subject to language assimilation, including as a result of mixed marriages. The paper also discusses the role of the media and the linguistic landscape in the region.

On the occasion of the quincentenary of the birth of the Istrian reformers, the famous Protestant theologian Matthias Flacius Illyricus (1520--1575) and Stephanus Consul Pinguentinus, Histrianus (1521--1579?), first translator of the New Testament into the Croatian language, analyzing the monographs of the Istrian polymath Mijo Mirković (1898--1963) dedicated to Flacius, the author elaborates in this essay the activity of the Istrian Protestants (Croatians, Slovenians and Italians) who, thanks to the emergence of "print capitalism" and "printed" languages, have contributed significantly to the spread of literacy and culture and to the creation of modern collective identities and "imagined communities". By presenting the multicultural and cosmopolitan character of the legacy of the Istrian reformers, the importance of international project cooperation in researching the phenomenon of reformation in Istria and in valorising the common European heritage was underlined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyses the Monte Paradiso hardcore punk festival in the city of Pula as an important subcultural event for the punk scene and its impact on tourism. The research aims to determine the importance of the festival in relation to tourism supply and the specific spatial features of this event. Pula was a military and industrial city, but it later became famous as a festival destination. In the summer of 1992, a group of punk enthusiasts organized the first Monte Paradiso festival. The event took place in an abandoned Austro-Hungarian fortress. That venue hosted the festival every summer from 1992 to 2000. The festival programme attracted numerous punk fans, but its impact on tourism was irrelevant. Since 2001, the festival has been organized in the Karlo Rojc Community Centre, housed in a former Yugoslav army building in the Monte Zaro urban district. The findings indicate that the festival has become a part of the city's tourist promotion and the rebranding of Pula. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Istrian Peninsula is rich in mineral resources, primarily carbonate and siliceous sedimentary rocks, which are inextricably linked by a process called silicification. Due to their hardness and conchoidal fracture, siliceous sedimentary rocks (cherts) are very suitable for knapping tools, therefore the knowledge about the location of chert deposits was very important for prehistoric communities in Istria. In this paper, we will present basic data on primary and secondary chert deposits in the Croatian part of the Istrian Peninsula, visual and mechanical characteristics of the collected samples, as well as micropetrographic characteristics determined using a binocular polarizing microscope. We will present data on the geological age of the host rock in which cherts were recorded. We will mention the terminological issues in the archaeological literature and raise the issue of research into the provenance of Istrian chert, that is, the possibility of identifying the raw material from different deposits on the Peninsula. We will also mention the archaeological sites where the presence of Istrian raw materials was recorded. Artifacts and cores used to knap flakes and blades were also found and recorded on some of the surveyed chert deposits. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 1984-1986, Zvonimir Kralj, diver and keeper of the Piran Aquarium, recovered the Enigma cipher machine with codebook and several other items from the wreck of the German minesweeper R 15 sunk off the west coast of Istria between Savudrija and Umag. The article describes and defines the device and outlines the technical characteristics of the minesweeper of the 6th Minesweeper Flotilla (6. Räumbootsflottille) of the German Kriegsmarine, which was hit by the British torpedo boat MTB 409 on the night of April 16-17 1945, and sank about 3 nautical miles northwest of Umag. An examination of the preserved parts of the cipher machine revealed that it was a naval Enigma M4 with four rotors and a reflector C. An X-ray microtomography showed the serial number of the machine M 15648 and the last configuration, left to right: C/γ (Gamma), III, VI, IV. The external position of the Gamma rotor (»P«) indicates that the Enigma was not set in a mode compatible with the M3 model, which corresponds to the cipher keys for the last two months of the war. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Badlands are specific landforms characterized by intense denudation processes. Their occurrence is mainly associated with clay-like materials and semi-arid and Mediterranean climates. This study presents the badland inventory for the Paleogene Pazin Basin located on the Istrian peninsula in Croatia. A total of 5,381 badland polygons, with a total area of 10.25 km², were manually outlined, based on the visual interpretation of orthophotos at a scale of 1:5,000. The badlands in Istria are represented as small and isolated landforms and are exclusively associated with flysch and flysch-like materials, which cover a significant part of the study area (46%). The analysis of badland inventory shows that badlands are spatially not equally distributed but that their abundance is increasing from NW to SE part of the analyzed area. Additionally, the results of the spatial analysis indicate the positive relationship between badland occurrence and relative relief, which is presented via the relief-badland index. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The state of knowledge and the still open problems concerning the borders of Roman Italy are presented, pointing out that their evolution is known in broad outline, while some details concerning the positioning of the borders and the absolute chronology remain unresolved. In addition, some examples are presented of how the borders of Roman times, whether real (such as the Augustan border at Arsia) or presumed (such as the praetentura Alpium or the claustra Alpium Iuliarum) have been evoked on several occasions during the negotiations to define the borders of modern states. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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We can trace the development of notary on the Eastern coast of the Adriatic and its hinterland since the 11th century. Since then, notaries had the right to issue documents in cities. In Istria, the note u appears for the first time in historical sources in 932 in Koper, and from 991 in Poreč. The documents issued by the notary had public faith (fides publicam) and were valid as evidence in court cases. At the end of the 12th century, the notary appeared in all Dalmatian cities as a very important institution. The notarial deed or instrument suppressed the map from public use. Notaries issued instruments, but at the request of the so-called rogatia (the act is called rogation, and the notary is rogatus, i.e. the petitioned notary). Rogatusje drew up a concept (sheda) at the request of the party, which he wrote in his notary book (liber imbeviaturarum or abbreviaturarum). After the rogation, and in at least three days, the notary had to issue the ispra, based on the entry he previously entered in his notary book (liber imbreviaturarum or ambreviaturarum). The issued document was certified by the notary with his signum notarii (monogram), which was written by hand below the text. The final document, certified, acquires public faith and becomes fidem publicam. In the Dalmatian cities, documents from the 13th century, in addition to the notary, had to be examined by the examiner (city clerk), who in southern Dalmatia are auditores. In Slavonia, since the 13th century, there were special institutions (loca credibilia) where documents were issued. These were usually chapters and monasteries. At the beginning of loca credibilia, seals were also issued on documents, and they were usually drawn up by the Chamberlain lector. Later, the Chamberlain lector had his own scribes or notaries to draw up documents. Loca credibilia also produced authentic copies of issued transumpta authentica documents, which were valid if the original was lost. In Slavonia there were known loca credibilia - in Zagreb, Požega, Čazma, Topusko, and in Dalmatia the chapters had their own loca credibilia: Kinina, Zadar, Skradin, Trogir and Vrana. Very early on, Dubrovnik had an office with lawyers and notaries trained in Italy. The people of Dubrovnik established their offices, next to Dubrovnik, from Albania to Hungary, where they went on trade trips. The people of Dubrovnik appointed heads of the office, who were called students, logothets, scribes or grammarians. Dubrovnik had a state office very early on with lawyers and notaries. Dubrovnik documents had, unlike other documents, a sanction and an oath - an anathema. The document was almost never signed or named by witnesses. The notary certainly played an extraordinary role in the area of the Eastern coast of the Adriatic and the hinterland in the Middle Ages. He left a positive legal mark in the general and legal medieval history of this area.

The article examines the role of the Bohemian and Moravian Clergy in Istria in the first decades of the Twentieth Century. It analyses the reasons of their presence in the area starting from the mid-Nineteenth Century, when the bishop of Trieste/Trst and Koper/Capodistria Legat initiated fulfilling vacant positions with priests from other parts of the Habsburg monarchy, a practice developed by his successor Glavina. In the last decades of the Nineteenth Century several dozens of students from Bohemia and Moravia attended the seminary in Gorizia/Gorica. Most of them left for Istria after schooling and Fran Novljan, a local intellectual and politician noted that "there were little parishes in the internal parts of Istria where a bohemian priest was not operating". Many of them integrated fully in the new communities and became fundamental reference points for local societies, in religious, but also in social, economic and cultural terms. This article uses their case to address the question of multiple options of citizenship and State affiliation in the changed context of post-World War I Istria, which was occupied by Italian forces in November 1918 and later annexed to the Kingdom of Italy. Following the attitude of Italian authorities and the repressive measures towards unwanted individuals, it opens a wide range of questions related to inclusion and exclusion in European post-imperial borderlands. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article aims to present some of the characteristics of the 19th--century Habsburg welfare 'system' in the province of Istria, as perceived mainly through the perspective of (in)ability to work as a key criterion for determining eligibility for social assistance. Welfare issues were not addressed in a sufficiently systematic way at the time, nor were they long--term measures, but instead they mainly involved ad hoc solutions to individual problems, which suggests that the drivers of social welfare were mainly crisis circumstances. Seasonal poverty was also a pressing problem, especially in rural areas, but in general old age, illness and unemployment were identified as central drivers of poverty. The bourgeois work ethic (which helped to shape the regulation of charity) is also relevant in this context, since it understood the alleviation of poverty primarily in terms of providing work or training for individuals living in poverty. At national and provincial levels, the concept of charity was limited to institutional care, which covered only a small part of the social issues. The financial burden for all other forms of welfare rested with the municipalities, which had to find their own ways of providing resources, relying to some extent on the bourgeois ethic of philanthropism, but also on inter--municipal solidarity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article examines the interplay between cultural identity, objects and memory in the Istrian exile community in Trieste, Italy. The close of the second World War and the transfer of Istria from Italy to the newly established socialist state of Yugoslavia saw the migration of the majority of Italians to Trieste and abroad. This article focuses on the objects held in Magazzino 18, a warehouse at the old port of Trieste, which were left unclaimed after the Istrian exodus of 1943–56. It analyses 1) how the exile community relies on the tools of Holocaust memorialisation to carve out its own narrative through objects, 2) how the imposition of the Holocaust model undermines intercultural understanding by insisting on a frame of competition and singularity, and 3) how that process ultimately obscures the role and responsibility of Italian fascism in the borderland.

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Addressing the underrepresentation of works by Italian Istrian writers within Italian literary tradition, the present article investigates the representation of identity and otherness as a result of exile in the rich and sophisticated memoirs of Anna Maria Mori (Pola, Italy – now Pula, Croatia, 1936). Her complex experience as an Istrian exile caused in her what writer Enzo Bettiza calls ‘exeità’, the condition of an ‘ex’ with a total loss of identity caused by the lack of a stable geographical community centre to identify with. Indeed, exile significantly altered Mori’s perception of her identity, which, together with the experience of war, triggered a sense of restlessness and the search for belonging that accompanied her throughout her life. What emerges is that although Mori’s outlook is strongly Italian, her ‘Italianness’ is supranational in the sense that it is mediated not by romanità, as it is the case for the majority of Italians, but rather by a nostalgic sense of venezianità, originating from a long tradition of Venetian rule in Istria. Her identity is further forged by slavness, derived from the Istrian rural hinterland inhabited mainly by Slovenians and Croatians who had an influence on the Italian communities living along the coast; and by the legacy of the Austro-Hungarian empire that ruled in Istria after the demise of la Serenissima. Mori’s memoirs, therefore, are the site of a reflexivity that sheds light on the complex feelings of an author caught between the simultaneous dimensions of an Italo-Slavic and Austro-Hungarian consciousness. Her nostalgic works give voice not only to her own story and feelings, but also to the stories and feelings of hundreds of thousands of Italian exiles, whose hardships are lost in the official narratives. Mori does for Istria what James Joyce did for Dublin. She offers a kaleidoscopic portrait which recreates, with painful precision, the sights, sounds, and smells of a lost world, where readers are constantly confronted by enduring issues related to the representation of the self and the other, marginality, and vulnerability.