Bosnian Frontiersmen from Krajina in Memory and Continuity of Tradition

Abstract

The main topic of this paper are frontiersmen from Krajina, observed through memory, oral tradition and the process of globalization. Using selected examples, we have been following them from the period of the Ottoman Empire when Bosnian Muslims, Bosniaks, were appointed the main border keepers. Those who fought to defend Bosnian borders, and its frontiers which were the defending bastions of Bosnia and the Empire, have lived through memory and tradition, patriotically filling up the historical frame. In correlation between reality and
tradition, norms which make the historical frame recognizeable in the community and oral tradition have been established. By identifying memory and oral history realized in oral literary forms and their prototypes, we reach the category of continuity of the Krajina tradition. Thus, through history, written by people, we reach the contemporary and the universal.