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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.
The Bulletin (GEI SANU) can also be found and read at CEEOL (Central and Eastern European Online Library): http://www.ceeol.com
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- Reception of structuralism exemplified by research on rite-de-passage in Serbian ethnology and anthropology
- Research on rite-de-passage marked Serbian ethnology and anthropology especially during the seventies, eighties and to some extent nineties of the 20th century. This paper offers some observations on the attitudes of Serbian scientists towards this method, on the novelties that the rite-de-passage introduced to interpretation of rituals, as well as some shortfalls of this analytical method in Serbia. For future analysis the author proposes more attention on the qualitative change that any ritual incurs, and towards this aim suggests some of the advantages of Van Genep's approach to rites-de-passage.
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- Recognition as welfare in globalization
- The subject matter of this study is an interdisciplinary envisaging of cultural problem in the process of globalization. The development and theoretical organization of the project that deals with cultural identity and strategy to represent Serbia on a global level could be a part of an overall strategy of the Serbian Government for development and advancement of the country. Globalization, as a gradual, progressive cycle of the world integrations is resulting in cultural exchange increase and represents a parameter for description of changes in the society. Culture constitutes a significant segment of international integration, where cultural authenticity and its promotion are of particular significance.
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- Recreational football in Belgrade
- The construction of masculinity in 40 to 50 year old men is examined on the example of playing recreational football at the Belgrade indoor soccer fields from the second half of the first decade of this century onwards. Playing football is seen as a particular form of male body use in organizing individual leisure time and its symbolical use in establishing notions of masculinity. The theoretical concept of hegemonic masculinity is problematized and it is shown that it does not reflect the empirically determined state in our surroundings. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. 177018]
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- Redness in the eyes of the dark Lord
- This paper discusses continuous influence of the Romanticism' ideas all until the present time. The ideas about the golden age in the past, on an ideal society based on class, gender, and generational hierarchy were dominant in the children' education until the second part of the 20th century. This was influenced, in turn, by fairy tales created in the 19th century, which are taken even today, to be the most appropriate children' literature. The flow-literary production of novels with fairy tales content, where the plot is taken place in some fictional, fairy-like world during the second part of the 20th century, corresponds hence to the need of adult audience/readers: a basic need for dream fulfillment about the roles of romantic heroes who do not exist in a real life. At the same time, the existing negation of modernization and introduction of new technologies corresponds nicely with the fears generated by accelerated changes, as one of the key attributes of the contemporary world. Deconstruction of the romanticized narratives begins in the framework of the postmodern fantasy literature, since the 1980's. This perspective reflects new possibilities for perceiving and estimation of the objective social reality of the Western civilization.
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- Reevaluation of ethnologic field research of the Dogon
- One of the events that marked the last decade of the 20th century was a more intensive re-evaluation of the work of Marcel Griaule (1898-1956), who was the first French ethnologist to conduct planned field research among the Dogon of Western Africa, in the period between 1931 and 1956. Griaule’s work had previously been re-examined in the sixties, in France (Georges Balandier), Great Britain (Mary Douglas) and in other places. British social anthropologists had put forward a critique of Griaule’s field methods, concentrating on his use of translators and work with privileged informants. Van Beek’ repeated study from 1991 started the new wave of polemic that came to include Griaule’s old critics, associates and relatives. Some of the participants in this debate interpreted Van Beek’s “attack” on Griaule as - inspired by Freeman’s critique of Mead, and the general trend of reevaluations - of anthropology’s leading figures at the close of the 20th century. The objective of Van Beek’s repeated study was to evaluate the reliability of Griaule’s findings. Van Beek emphasized three groups of errors in Griaule’s research: 1) the scarcity of data; 2) the unverifiability of data; 3) the inappropriateness of analyses. Van Beeks’ repeated study did not reach the level of controversy that followed the Mead-Freeman polemic in the eighties. On the other hand, it puit forward an important question on whether French anthropology can face selfcriticism, and established Dutch academic presence in Western Africa The French advocates of “New Dogon anthropology” focus their research on time “before Ogotemmêli” and “after Ambara”. Another important improvement represents the inclusion of local Dogon scholars.
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- Reflection as commodity
- The task undertaken in this text is to show the way mirrors, as Victorian commodities, embodied the emerging nineteenth-century consumerist culture and changed the desiring subject’s self-perception. For the first time in the cultural history of the West, mirrors became cheap, spectacularized and omnipresent, lurking around every corner. As the subject encountered itself incessantly, something changed at the level of desire: the subject misunderstood its own reflected image for the truth of its inner self. By way of this short ethno(historio)graphy of the Victorian mirror reflection, the text discusses the Victorian visual culture of spectacle and desire.
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- Refugee integration in Bulgaria
- Between 2013 and 2016, the inflow of Middle Eastern refugees to other European countries increased sharply. Their transit migration through Bulgaria was determined by their preliminary intention to settle in countries with a higher standard of living, affording better reception and better conditions for social integration. Few asylum seekers from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran prefer Bulgaria as their final destination. The article focuses on their case and analyses the national legal framework and the policy decisions in the field of social and cultural integration by comparing these with society’s attitudes to refugees and with the asylum seekers/refugees’ expectations, impressions and experience, surveyed through indepth interviews and focus group discussions held in 2018. The results of this comparative research show that refugees in Bulgaria have developed adaptive socio-economic and cultural strategies of their own according to their specific characteristics and needs in the context of different government integration programs lacking a clearly defined vision of integration, of blurred responsibility of state institutions, limitations and minimal effects of the existing legislation on social integration of refugees, negative public speech, and stereotypical social attitudes.
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- Refugee studies or forced migration studies
- This paper aims to present to domestic audience a comprehensive view of multidisciplinary research field known as “refugee studies” or “forced migration studies”, which was formally founded in the early 1980s. I will show that the scientific problem of conceptual distinction between “refugee” and “forced migration” is embedded within the history of this research field, but also in the socio-political context. Academic multidisciplinary field considered in this paper was not formed in a theoretical vacuum, but in conjunction with international and humanitarian refugee protection order. Further, multidisciplinarity is one of the strategies for utilization of scientific insights in creation or change of policy. Refugee studies and forced migration studies had an impact on changes of humanitarian organizations policies, but also the other way around - conceptual apparatus of certain organizations and way of migration governance had an influence on scientific deliberation of refugee and forced migration phenomena. [Project of the Serbian Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, Grant no. 177027: Multietnicitet, multikulturalnost, migracije - savremeni procesi]
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- Refugees from Herzegovina (1875-1878) in the Boka Kotorska bay and Konavli in the light of new data
- The insurrection in Herzegovina influenced neighboring areas too. The 1875-1878 events in Herzegovina and Bosnia received a lot of coverage in the literature, except for the subject of the people and refugees' (who escaped Herzegovina and moved to the Boka Kotorska and Konavli) suffering and hard life. Also, very little attention is given to the individuals who attempted to help the refugees in the troubled times. This paper is based on unpublished archive sources from the State Archive of Monte Negro, Cetinje archive department of Herceg Novi, that is, archive funds of the municipalities of Herceg Novi, Risan and Topalj, and on unpublished writings of Veljko Lombardich who played a significant role in aiding the rebellions and refugees. The paper provides numerous data on the work and activities of many Committees who had helped the refugees in supplying food, clothes money, arms and munitions, care and aid of the church officials of the Boka Kotorska, education of school children; in addition, there are data on the relationship of Austrian government toward the refugees and so on. The number of refugees was considerably large, in 1876, according to the official data, was over five thousand in the municipality of Herceg Novi which at the time, had around eight thousand inhabitants. A help by Orthodox Serbs, and others from Trieste, Odessa, Americas, Novi Sad, Belgrade Osijek, Timisoara was sent to the rebellions and refugees, and it was decisive for their survival.
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- Reinstatement of the journal Ethno-Anthropological Problems, published by Belgrade University of Philosophy
- Сажетак Излазак нове серије часописа ЕТНОАНТРОПОЛОШКI ПРОБЛЕМI на Филозофском факултету у Београду Одељење за етнологију и антропологију Филозофског факултета у Београду прославило је 2006. године стогодишњицу свог постојања, као и 125 година од увођења етнологије у наставу на београдском универзитету. Излазак нове серије часописа Етноантрополошки проблеми у истој години, представља свакако најприкладнији начин за обележавање ових значајних датума за нашу науку.
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- Relations, discourses and subjectivities
- The Sociology of Knowledge and the Interpretive Paradigm of Sociology, as it was outlined in Berger’s and Luckmann’s Social Construction of Reality is often misunderstood as a cognitivist approach that essentializes subjects as powerful sources of meaning. In contrast, this article argues that this interpretive approach is grounded in the perspective of the decentered subject and that it takes the materiality of meaning making processes into account. Therefore, three modifications of Berger’s and Luckmann’s interpretive sociology are outlined in this paper: first, the theoretical transition from a interactionist to a relational perspective; second, the specification of symbolic orders as universes of discourses and, thirdly, the conceptualization of identity as ongoing self-positioning processes. The article aims to show that these developments broaden the perspective the Social Construction by clarifying the methodological standpoint in order to enrich empirical research in the fields of discourse and subjectivation studies as well as in the classical research fields of the interpretive sociology that focus on interactions in the life-world.
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- Relationship between the local, regional and global - Montenegro in the XXI century
- Cultural and demographic changes that Montenegro will be facing in the coming decades will be strongly influenced by both external and internal factors. First of all, they will be instigated by the national, and especially the European (cultural) integration, and by the process of (cultural) globalization. Migratory movements, associated with rapidly-surging migration of people across national borders will also take their toll on the acculturative processes in Montenegro. The aforementioned cultural dynamics can predominantly be observed with respect to general tendencies. However, it is possible to identify national cultural challenges and formulate the means of overpowering them in a way that is in line with the concept of democratic and multicultural development in Montenegro.