Mass gatherings seen as political and cultural events, social dramas and spectacles

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Lukic-Krstanovic, M. (2002). Mass gatherings seen as political and cultural events, social dramas and spectacles, (50), 23-33. doi:10.2298/GEI0351023L
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Title

Mass gatherings seen as political and cultural events, social dramas and spectacles

Subtitle
Author

Miroslava, Lukic-Krstanovic

Journal

Glasnik Etnografskog instituta

Volume
Issue

50-51

Start page

23

End page

33

ISSN

0350-0861

ISBN
DOI

10.2298/GEI0351023L

URL

http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/Article.aspx?ID=0350-08610351023L

Date

2002-2020/03/05/20:55:30

Abstract

In this work, ethnological research focuses on the daily events which move from ritual to spectacle and vice versa. Mass events in the Balkan region became social dramas and open air theatres of life, frequently with tragic consequence. My research into mass gatherings in Serbia over many years particularly in Belgrade, have been directed to the ritual and the symbolic mechanism of interpreting political and cultural events. Numerous experiences, the recollections of all the participants, were included in the discourse on interpretation of this phenomenon.

Keywords

politics, culture, ritual, events, mass gatherings, spectacles, symbols