This article analyses post-war history culture in Bosnia and
Herzegovina using the concept of banal nationalism. Through a
description of Bosnia’s post-war history culture – that part of
public culture where people face the past in their daily lives, i.e.
books, films, monuments, museums, buildings, pictures,
photographs, plays and so forth – the article demonstrates the
division of Bosnian history culture into three variants and
analyzes the main characteristics of each variant.
The analysis shows that contrary to classical, more selfconscious
forms of historical presentation such as museum
exhibits, the past exists in post-war Bosnian society in a banal
way. The article concludes that such a banal presence of history
can have a strong impact on the identity and historical
consciousness of Bosnians
