Deconstruction of a Myth about ‘Capitaleness’: A Case of a Town Called Myshkin

Abstract

Capital represents the most typical institutional body that determines the functions of a political center separating it from a “periphery” a historical memory of the previous “capitalness” has an impact on people’s identity even when a state has disappeared or is invented.

Keywords

• capital
• ‘capitalness’
• myshkin
• identity
• deconstruction