title: Swallowed voice: The <i>ethnography of historical experience</i> as method to describe fate and ethnicity as the experience of geographical boundary lines embodied in refugees
abstract: Abstract This study collects oral histories in intersubjective methods. Grounded methods allowed for themes to emerge that revealed strategies of self‐definition expressed by survivors of ethnic cleansing. The discussion draws on interdisciplinary literature to broaden the scholarly focus from bounded wholes to historical experience. Political scientists convincingly define Silesia as ethnicity and geographical areas in Europe today, yet this anthropological study focuses on the effects of histo
journal: Anthropology of Consciousness