Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU
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The Bulletin of the Institute of Ethnography SAS (I-VII)/ SASA (VIII/) is a scientific periodical of international significance which publishes papers in ethnology/anthropology. From its inception in 1952, the Bulletin publishes the results of scientific research projects of scientists and associates of the Institute and other affiliated institutions in the country and abroad. In addition, discussions and articles, supplements, field data, retrospectives, chronicles, reviews, translations, notes, bibliographies, obituaries, memories, critiques and similar are published as well. The Bulletin was founded as a means to publish the results of research of settlements and origins of populations, folk life, customs and folk proverbs. However, the concept of the Bulletin, like that of any other contemporary scientific journal, changed over time to accommodate the social, cultural and political processes and research trends in the social sciences and humanities.
The Bulletin (GEI) is referenced in the electronic bases: DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals), Ulrich's Periodicals Directory and SCIndex (Serbian Citation Index). All articles are digitally available in a form typographically true to the original (in .pdf format). The Bulletin is also available in the same form on the website of the Institute of Ethnography SASA.
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- Investigating the folk cultures
- The basis of our theoretical examination and analysis is the folk culture of Macedonians. Having in mind that the folk culture is considered a dynamic category, we have analysed a few separate segments which result with specific features of this type of culture, that are especially noticeable in the frames of the system of thinking and the system of behaviour of individuals and communities that form this category. The further analysis of folk culture focuses upon a very important phenomena of transmitting cultural information in the frames of these cultures. Having in mind that the wider social level that created folk culture in Macedonia and the Balkans did not have the possibility to utilise the written form of transmitting information, this was taking place through other specific forms that were based upon orally. So, one of the most important mechanisms for transmitting a cultural information is the folklore, especially oral folk tradition. Apart from this mechanism that is the cumulative basis of folk culture, the ritual is the most important form of actualisation and transmission of information, at few levels: through rituals that take place in the frames of the basic kinship and social community as for example the family, then rituals that are taking place at the level of the village community, as well as at the level of some other special groups that include isolated circles of participants (ritual mysteries, ritual healing etc.). .
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- Ivan Kovačević, Tradicija modernog. Prilozi istoriji savremene antropologije (Tradition of the Modern. Accounts toward the history of contemporary Anthropology)
- Сажетак Иван Ковачевић, Традиција модерног. Прилози историји савремене антропологијеСрпски генеалошки центар и Одељење за етнологију и антропологију Филозофског факултета у БеоградуБеоград 2006. 156 стр. Књига проф. Ивана Ковачевића − Традиција модерног. Прилози историји савремене антропологије, објављена као 25. издање у оквиру Етнолошкебиблиотеке Српског генеалошког центра, усредсређена је на разматрање токова антропологије 20. века, али и на одређене, релативно савремене тенденције у овој научној дисциплини, које аутор означава као постмодернизам.
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- Jovan Cvijić and the beginnings of establishing ethnology as a discipline in Serbia
- The role of Jovan Cvijić, especially his anthropogeographical school in the early stages of the development of ethnology in Serbia was undeniably significant. Today its influence is largely obsolete, which is not surprising given the temporal distance from the time the discipline was founded, in the late nineteenth and early twenties centuries. In spite of that, in some recent critical reviews, Cvijić’s work and its importance for the development and shaping of ethnology as a discipline in Serbia are contested as highly controversial. In this paper the author tries to discern why has this occurred, and whether it would still be justified, from today’s perspective, to consider Jovan Cvijić as one of the founding fathers of Serbian ethnology. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. 177027, Multietnicitet, multikulturalnost, migracije - savremeni procesi]
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- Jovan Mišković
- The paper describes the life and work of Jovan Mišković, a forgotten ethnographer and geographer. Born in Negotin (1844-1908), he had received military education and took on several important functions in the government and had served bravely in three wars. In addition, he was also a gifted scientist, whose interests included geography, ethnography, history archeology and topography. He was a distinguished member of Serbian medical society, Serbian Royal Academy and several other important associations. The paper presents Misković’s contribution to science and discuses cultural/scientific environment where he worked and lived.
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- Juvenile marriages, child-brides and infant mortality among Serbian gypsies
- Gypsies/Roma make up the largest minority in Europe. Roma communities tend to be segregated and characterized by poverty, unemployment, poor education, and poor quality housing. So far, the European strategy for Gypsy/Roma integration proved insufficient because it fails to account to the normative nature of the isolationist and ethnocentric nature of certain elements of Gypsy culture, as well as the deep and mutual distrust between Gypsies and non-Gypsies within European countries. In Serbia, the Gypsy population tends to suffer disproportionately from higher rates of poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, and disease. At the same time, the Serbian Gypsy women average an infant mortality rate between 10-20%. For most of these girls/women, endogamous, arranged marriages are negotiated at an early age, usually without their consent. Among these women, a certain level of infant mortality is “expected”, following an underinvestment in some children manifested in their care, feeding, and the response to their illnesses. These juvenile arranged marriages, subsequent reproduction and child mortality are culturally self-sufficient and hence pose a challenge for international human rights: while many Gypsy girls/women are being denied the right to choose whom and when to marry, the Gypsy community itself openly accepts juvenile arranged marriage as a preservation strategy and means of cultural, economic, and societal maintenance and independence. Although efforts to improve education, health, living conditions, encourage employment and development opportunities for Gypsies/Roma are essential, these objectives cannot be attained without directing the changes needed within Gypsy/Roma culture itself. The initial point for change must come from an increased sense of responsibility among the Gypsies themselves.
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- Kinship terms in the district of Vranje
- Kinship terminology includes a variety of terms used to identify and address kinsmen. This paper deals with nominal kinship categories, used for blood or fictive kinsmen in the district of Vranje during the second half of the 20th century. In addition, some old-fashioned, long-used kinship terms were also noted down. In addition to the similarities with the kinship terminology used among Serbs in general, the terminology used in the area of Vranje has a couple of specifics of its own. These specifics originated in the particular cultural and social environment of Vranje. The appellations of (paternal) uncle, wife of father's brother, uncle, father-in-law and mother-in-law are just a few of the specific terms used in the area examined. A kinship relation as well as the maintenance of the bond is based on emotional attachment and life-interest similarities. This is illustrated in the usage of personal names in direct communications instead of kinship terms. On the other hand, some archaic kin appellations are still in use which indicates that the formation of the new terms does not imply the disappearance of the old ones. The concurrent usage of the old and new terms characterizes the kinship terminology, where changes act in a less visible manner. In sum, kinship terminology is a complex subject that offers a number of possibilities for understanding various aspects of the kinship system and segments of a given society.
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- Kiosk
- Kiosk, a lightly constructed edifice, exists in Belgrade for more than half of a century. Shapes and constructions of kiosks that used to sell newspapers and cigarettes have followed general change in building styles over the years, requiring little or no attention from the public. However, at the time when Milošević opposition parties took over local government/management large number of kiosks became positioned in the center of the city. At the same time, Milošević’s socialistic trading firms collapsed, and sales of many items transferred to kiosks. The change of government at the local level caused a different politics toward kiosks, and united state and local governments put an effort into removal of kiosks from the centre of Belgrade. This paper discusses the relationship between ideology and kiosk as architecture’ structure, and kiosks’ economic productivity.
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- Knowledge, discourse and the methodological turn in Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann's the social construction of reality
- The aim of this article is to reconsider Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann's book Social construction of reality in the context of the contemporary research in sociology of knowledge and sociological discourse analysis. The impact and reception of the book is differentiated from the impact of the term „social construction“. The assumption is that methodological turn in this book is very important for contemporary sociological research of knowledge and discourse. It is emphasized that methodological turn meant turn towards the study of language and meaning as the key tools in the process of objectivation of social reality, but also the new approach to knowledge and social reality. At the same time, the research impulses of the book opened the space for new sociological research. One of the prominent contemporary research agenda within the sociology of knowledge - Sociology of knowledge approach to discourse - is also presented, since it is developed after the influence of Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann's Social construction of reality.
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- Kulturno nasledstvo i turiz''m - za konstruiraneto na etnografskite kompleksi
- (bugarski) Interes''t k''m kulturnoto bogatstvo na edin narod e sred osnovnite stimuli za razvitieto na turizma. Tendencijata da se revitalizirat tradiciite na edna ili druga kultura se nabljudava v strani po celija svjat. Vse po-često dnes v procesa na homogenizacija na kulturite različnite obščnosti izobretjavat prostranstva, koito sa svoeobrazni rezervati na kulturnoto nasledstvo. Te predlagat očakvanata kulturna različnost, t''rsena predimno v edno idealizirano minalo. Reaktiviraneto mu i 'živata istorija' stavat vse po-populjarni kato načini za privličane na turistite i provokira konstruiraneto na specifični prostranstva i s''zdavaneto na novi, specialno izgradeni atrakcii. Edna ot naj- atraktivnite formi na prezentirane na kulturnoto nasledstvo e etnografskijat kompleks. .
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- Legal inheritance in the domain of ideal and real
- This paper discusses customary and legislative practices and their interrelationship in the contemporary time. Furthermore, the paper will accentuate the relationship of ideal patterns in the legislative and customary practices, in regards toward the real behavior. By doing so, the paper will reveal the possible consequences streaming from attempts to apply the ideal patterns of the customary domain in the juridical practice.
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- Lepa Brena
- Article focuses on politically relevant aspects of practices of remembering socialism in post-Yugoslav context and offers an approach to memory that involves considering not only what is remembered and how, but also what are the implications of these remembrances, i.e. what is the potential of memory to support (or de-legitimize) political causes and enhance (or impede) civic participation. Looking at the example of Lepa Brena's public persona and her concerts during 2009, it examines the active usage of the Yugoslav past and highlights the significant capacity of music in that process. Through the lenses of the so-called personalized historical narrativity, the attention is given to the expression, shape and constraint of emotions associated with Yugoslav popular music and its social, cultural and political consequences within the post-Yugoslav societies.
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- Lime-kiln with recommendation
- The mode of lime-stone production, used for centuries, almost disappeared today. The only data on lime-stone production from the Herceg Novi area are remains of lime-kiln dated to 18th century, and old archives of Venetian notaries from the cities of Kotor and Herceg Novi. The notaries collected and noted down the data on lime-kilns in many details: on particular lime-kilns, their locations, owners, supplying, reimbursements etc., and these data represent the only testimony on this activity. In order to build a lime-kiln, it was first necessary to find a suitable place and dig a hole. Also, it was an imperative that the selected place is surrounded by trees and stone. Almost all lime-kilns were located near the main roads or shores, which made them accessible to boats. A preparatory work, usually about two weeks, consisted of gathering and collecting wood and stones; the next phase was building of a lime-kiln, followed by a heating/firing wood (heating a lime-stone), a period of cooling off, and at the end, a transport of slacked lime. All these activities involved not only workers employed at the particular lime-kiln, but also their families, relatives and peasants. Based on the available documents, it was very difficult to obtain a good quality lime-stone, but it is said that the island of Lustica had provided the best quality. The lime-stone production employed peasants (one or more families, or friends joined together), which did not diminish the value and organizational aspect of this activity in the period of Venetian rule of the Boka Kotorska Bay. The government paid strict attention to the production, deliveries, judicial proceedings, and reimbursements. From the available data on the lime-kiln owners, it can be assumed that they did not own the land itself. Also, we can only imagine what kinds of troubles and difficulties the people involved in the lime-stone production had to face; this was a very difficult, hard work, and it was believed that the best lime-stone is the one from the surface, „baked“ by the Sun.