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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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- Speaking without words
- Anthony Quinn 'teaching dance' on the island of Crete to the music of Mikis Theodorakis is a popular image that portrays Greeks as extremely emotional passionate and spontaneous. This paper shows the importance of dancing in Greek culture and how Greeks talk through their body by examining Kazantzakis character, Zorba, who 'has many things to say but would rather dance them'.
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- Sprechen sie deutsch?
- This paper? analyzes the use of German langue in the public and private spheres of communication among members of three local associations of Germans in Bačka. Their efforts to preserve native idiom, after decades of "ethnic mimicry" of German community in Vojvodina, and under the hardship of asymmetrical bilingualism favoring Serbian and Hungarian languages, are directed not only to preserve German language, but they also play a significant role in the process of (re) construction of their ethnic identity. German language is given the utmost importance by the local leaders of the German association, as a key symbol of "Germanship" in this region. It is used as a tool for drawing and highlighting the symbolic boundaries of the local ethnic German community in Bačka. The tendency of German community members in Bačka to communicate in German language in private communication, and during their gatherings, plus the imperative of raising the level of competition in their native language idiom - have a function of drawing symbolic boundaries in relation to other ethnic communities in the region. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. 177027: Multi-ethnicity, multiculturalism, migration – Contemporary processes]
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- Srebrica Knežević
- This paper reviews the life and work of Srebrica Knežević (1930-2012) in order to present her career, achievements and fields of study that she contributed to. Special attention will be paid to the importance of her role in pioneer research of folk medicine, nutrition and world ethnology, as well as comprehension of the significance of interdisciplinary approach in Serbian ethnology. Also, this paper will depict Srebrica Knežević as a researcher loyal to her ethnographic field, therefore indicating the compromises she had to make for her very frequent trips and researches. Finally, I will speak of Srebrica Knežević as a lecturer and a professor who adjusted her impressions for the classroom setting and her students, during four decades of work at the Department of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade. As a gifted lecturer who implemented innovations in the classroom, she is remembered as a creative, passionate and dedicated professor, who brought distant topics and ethnographic fields to life. The life and work of Srebrica Knežević are presented and analyzed based on the relevant literature and conversations with her colleagues, students, friends and family.
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- States of victimhood and irreparable losses
- In this article I investigate how Serbian veterans of the post-Yugoslav wars positioned themselves in relation to the state that was largely ignoring their claims for material and symbolic recognition. I show how this impacted veterans’ ideas about their place in the Serbian postwar society and argue that the apparent disregard for veterans’ predicaments added to their experience of multiple lacks and losses, as well as aided the formation of a particular veterans’ political subjectivity. This was occurring against a backdrop of a series of lost wars and a context of ambiguities and unsolved contradictions, in which, two decades after the wars there were still no official records about the exact size of the veteran population or their most immediate needs. In order to expose and investigate what can be learned from this case, I draw on the insights of the anthropology of the state and argue that its limitations may be overcome and complemented with a broadened Foucauldian concept of governmentality.
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- Stereotypes concerning Greeks in Serbian language
- Stereotypes concerning Greeks in Serbian language are researched through the historical source (Dictionary of JAZU). The source describes a complex representation, with a truthful foundation that incorporates layers of mythological and historical memories on stereotypes in the traditional culture. This ethnic stereotype of the people associated with Serbs in one very positive experience, both in mythological and historical legacies, is freed from prejudice, thus preventing a possibility of political misuse of its ethnic symbolism.
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- Stigmatization as a result of the illegalization of some forms of transnational movement
- The process of legalization and legitimization of discrimination of foreigners who are trying to reach some of the EU countries without appropriate permissions is the major topic of this text. It is shown how a legal and administrative qualification of a type of movement transforms into a social qualification of people who are undertaking that type of movement. To put it differently, the process of metaphoric transformations of the illegal movement to the illegal people is represented here. Once being done, these transformations allow further proliferation of ‘the illegal people’ to ‘criminals’ or ‘victims’, but they also can lead to the denial of all or some human characteristics to the people in question - dehumanization. When dehumanization is accepted at the level of representations, it begins to serve as the excuse for and justification of the aggressive practices towards the dehumanized people. This circular phenomenon of dehumanization is manifested systematically: it can be identified in the laws, the work of some state or international institutions, in everyday’s communication between the migrants and the people they meet. In the beginning of this text the migrations through the territory of Serbia and its asylum system have been presented. This is followed by the discussion of the dehumanization and the legislature and the legislative practices that support it. In the concluding part of the text dehumanization is presented as a linguistic, metaphoric, pragmatic and discursive phenomenon. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije: Multietnicitet, multikulturalnost, migracije - savremeni procesi]
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- Stories about the truth and tolerance
- This work discusses creationism as a new form of religious fundamentalism, which is attacking not only modern science but also the foundations of secularism in Europe, America and almost the whole world, as well as how creationism is using the mechanisms of secular society/state, first of all museums and science in order to strengthen its influence. At the same time a question is posed how much literally understood principles of general tolerance and democracy can subvert the existence of secular and multicultural society in which they arose.
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- Street celebration of New Year's Eve in Belgrade
- The New Year's Eve celebration, held on the streets of Belgrade on the night of December 31st 2003 and January 1st 2004, represents a multilevel event. The celebration has a number of socio-cultural meanings readable through different frameworks: political, economic and ritual, the latter being may be the most expressive one. In fact, the celebration of New Year's Eve on the streets could be seen as reminiscent of gatherings of a similar type held against Milosević's government during his regime in the 1990's. The celebration of New Year, 2004, did not have such an explicit political character; nevertheless, it was suppose to establish certain social values once held and proclaimed by the organizers of the political rallies against Milosević. The social values and attitudes were embodied in street rallies including the New Year's Eve celebrations. This paper examines the political aspect of the New Year's Eve celebration, with the special emphasis on identity construction, that is, on how and why the participation in the celebration implies certain identity pursuits.
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- Substituting internet for a traditional fieldwork
- Internet as a substitute for traditional fieldwork is being used increasingly, hence there is a need to asses the notion of 'doing fieldwork'. One of the fundamental questions related to the usage of Internet to collect data arises as a doubt whether this kind of data collection is an adequate means to its end: are the data collected this way sufficient or even appropriate for an academic analysis and scientific theories? In an attempt to at least partially answer this question, this paper discusses ways in which Internet could be used and seen as a fieldwork providing valid data. To illustrate this, the paper presents, as an example, an analysis of a certain folklore material gathered via Internet. The aim is to show which kind of data could be collected this way, and how the analysis performed demonstrate such data are nevertheless a valid source containing quality information on a given subject, in this case, folklore. The discussion is limited to anthropology of folklore in order to demonstrate the possibility of data collection which excludes more traditional fieldwork methods.
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- Sunday - holiday or workday
- The paper tackles the relationship of society and individuals towards Sundays as specific days in the week cycle. As in the past, so also today, Sunday is the day which connects two work-periods and represents “transitional time” that binds them. The framework for the deliberation of the topic is the social evaluation of time - the loss of old habits (inherited from the past) and the adoption of new rules of everyday life. Up until a couple of decades ago in our country Sundays were treated as holidays and days of rest. The content of Sundays in present-day conditions has been greatly reduced as compared to the time when traditional culture was the norm. Traces of the notion that Sunday is a holiday can still be found today. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. 177028: Strategije identiteta: savremena kultura i religioznost]
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- Sveti Valentin vs. Sveti Trifon ili dve v edno
- (bugarski) Statijata e opit da se razkrie s''dbata na tradicionnija kalendaren praznik Sveti Trifon il Trifon Zarezan u b''lgarite i s''rbite sled navlizaneto na edin čužd praznik - Sveti Valentin kato den na vljubenite v godinite na novoto hiljadoletie. S''vpadenieto na datata na tjahnoto čestvane - 14 fevruari - dava osnovanie da se t''rsi otgovor na v''prosa kak tezi praznici se s''vmestjavat i kakva reakcija na protivopostavjane predizvikva čuždijat praznik. Makar če Sveti Valentin namira radušen priem v prazničnata sistema na dvata naroda, očertavat se njakoi različija v adaptacijata mu. Obr''šča se vnimanie na promenite, koito pret''rpjava čuždija praznik v novata sreda, podčinjavajki se na zakonomernostite i pravilata na svojata sistema. S usvojavaneto na Sveti Valentin kato den na vljubenite s''rbite i b''lgarite pokazvat otkrit stremež da b''dat čast ot kulturata na sveta i v s''ščoto vreme da ostanat verni na svoite tradicii.
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- Teaching human variation
- This paper examines the influence of education on students' attitudes to-wards the race concept. A questionnaire was distributed before and after a short teaching module on human variation. A significant shift in student position from undecided and racial towards non-racial was observed, thus confirming the importance of scientific education in shaping students' opinions.