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Within the framework of disciplinary purposes, research and interpretation in archaeology historically was aimed at establishing identity/continuity/territory (I/C/T) correlation, while studying the material culture of past societies. This subject of study links archaeology with nationalist social movements and with political uses of the past. In this paper, we analyse the interpretation of the I/C/T correlation in Serbian prehistoric archaeology and its hypothetical relationship with the atrocious nationalist discourse of the 1990s, which led to the disintegration of Yugoslavia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author, English born and living in Sydney, Australia, presents an argument for the usefulness of the recognition of the implicit simultaneous links between the following: development of psychic skin and the establishment of the body schema development of a sense of identity relationship with place such that the formulation psychic skin< > mind < > body < > self < > place < > world can be thought of as an organising gestalt or implicit continuum of 'skin' experience and process upon which the explicit always depends. This constitutes a taken-for-granted ground-plan of the self-in-place. The author follows this with an exploration of the consequences for psychic health of a traumatic rupture of this gestalt for both individual and group. Material from two cases is presented: first, a young woman whose family fled the Balkan wars which splintered the former Yugoslavia; second, the transmission of displacement trauma into the third generation of a family who arrived in Australia after WW II from the former Yugoslavia. For the purposes of this paper I will not make a distinction between migrants/exiles/refugees and instead refer to either displacement or dislocation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]