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The Kultura Journal is an international scientific journal for the theory and sociology of culture and cultural policy, which follows culture in the widest sense of the word where science, education and all human activities are taken as its integral part.
It was started in 1968 courtesy to the efforts of Stevan Majstorović, founder of the Centre for Studies in Cultural Development, with the objective to encourage integrative, analytical and critical interpretations of the modern cultural phenomena.
At the time of its establishment, the Kultura Journal was unique in the domain of intellectual thought both in terms of its concept and its design. Since the first issue, i.e. over the fifty years of its existence, Kultura has been and has remained open to creative ideas from the country and the world, as seen from the texts of important foreign authors and contributions from professionals coming from the cultural centres of former Yugoslavia, as well as domestic authors who offered new ideas and approaches to culture. The recognizable design solution of the logo of the journal and its cover page were created by the artist and calligraphist Božidar Bole Miloradović, for the very first number.
As of 1971, the issues were edited thematically, which has been dominant practice to this date, with the aim of enriching certain thematic fields in our cultural and scientific community.
The first Editorial Board of the Kultura Journal consisted of eleven members, led by the Editor-in Chief Stevan Majstorović and Trivo Inđić, as conceptual instigators of the journal which heralded a new orientation in the intellectual field. Members of the Editorial Board were: Slobodan Canić, Dragutin Gostuški, Vujadin Jokić, Danica Mojsin, Mirjana Nikolić, Nebojša Popov, Bogdan Tirnanić, Milan Vojnović and Tihomir Vučković. Over the five decades of the Kultura Journal, editorial boards changed several times.
Kultura is issued every three months (four times a year) and its printing has been financed by the Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Serbia since 2001. With support of the competent ministry, all numbers of this journal, from the first to the last issue, were digitalized in 2009. As a result, a DVD containing digital form of the journal, was available with the issue No. 129, titled "Electronic libraries". A few years later, in 2013, Kultura switched to the Cyrillic script, with an important note that it still published in Latin script those authors from the region who originally use Latin script(Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia). With the issue No. 140, on the occasion of marking the 45th anniversary of the Kultura Journal, a special USB was made available, with all the texts from the numbers 1-137. The web page of the Centre for Studies in Cultural Development contains all the texts ever published in any issue of the Kultura Journal over half a century of its existence.
The Department for Registration of Journals of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia, the Kultura Journal was registered in 2005 (when categorisation of scientific journals started) marked as category P53. In 2010,it was registered as category M52 in the group of journals for history, art,history, ethnology and archaeology. At the beginning of July 2012, the journal advanced to the category of national interest, by Decision of the Ministry of education, science and technological development of the Republic of Serbia (M51).
Kultura is regularly deposited with the Repository of the National Library of Serbia, and since 2010, it has been included in the Serbian Quotation Index, where the texts published in Kultura can be found in full digital form. As of 2011, the texts i.e. scientific articles, apart from the regular UDK (universal decimal classification) also carry specific DOI (Digital Object Identifier) codes, that allow for their greater visibility and international indexing under international standards. In the meantime,electronic version of the journal was started i.e. the first steps were made towards electronic edition by CEON (Service for monitoring, measuring and valorisation of scientific journals) through Aseestant electronic editing programme. This has contributed to the quality of published articles, as the editorial board now have at their disposal adequate programmes for text checking in terms of correct citation sand listings of references as well as prevention of plagiarism.
Kultura is regularly delivered to the National Library of Serbia in Belgrade, Belgrade City Library,University Library "Svetozar Marković" in Belgrade, Library of Matica Srpska in Novi Sad, Library of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Belgrade, Library of the Rectorate of the University of Arts in Belgrade, University Library in Niš and University Library in Kragujevac. The Kultura Journalis regularly received by numerous interested institutions of culture (libraries, theatres, museums, culture centres) as well as individuals. The Journal nurtures professional exchanges with many similar institutions and magazines in the country, region and in Europe (Montenegro, Croatia, Slovenia,Hungary, Bulgaria, Germany, Switzerland and other countries).
In addition to respecting scientific rules and standards for publishing scientific papers, Kultura has not lost the curiosity or the freshness of an avant-garde magazine dealing with both eternal and very actual topics.
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- Ana Martinoli
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- Analysis of the results of survey conducted among visitors to the National museum Valjevo in August 2016
- The initial aim of this paper is to present an analysis of the survey conducted among visitors to the central permanent exhibition of the National Museum Valjevo. The analysis relates to the visitors' origin, reasons for coming to Valjevo and the Museum, their prior knowledge of the Museum, their experience and satisfaction. The survey was conducted in the period from 27 July to 26 August 2016, during which the Museum was visited by 417 people, 96 of which were from Valjevo, 6 from its surroundings (Kolubara County), 204 from other cities in Serbia and 111 from abroad. The analyses were supported by a kind of historical review based on archival documents from the records of visits to older exhibitions, so that the paper also presented a comparative crosssection of the total yearround visits in 1961 and 2016, with emphasis on the visits in August. The comparative results show that the total number of visits in 2016 was significantly higher than in 1961 (23,495 to 13,020) but lower when looking at the percentage of visitors compared to the number of city residents (39.8% to 45.7%). The increase of overall visits in 2016 was created by school trips, since at present, during the four months of the school trips, 19,690 visitors to the Valjevo Museum were registered in 2016 comprising for 83.8% of total annual visits, while in 1961 there were 7,401 (56.8%). The data obtained in comparative analyses suggest that today local population visit their Museum in much smaller numbers and percentages than they did a little over half a century ago, so that an absolute majority of visits are made by visitors from other places, especially those who came organized in groups, to whom a visit to the Museum was one of the points of their preplanned itinerary, as well as individual visitors who in most cases have already had some previous knowledge of the Museum and intended to visit it during their visit to Valjevo. In order to increase the interest of the local population in their Museum, it is of the utmost importance to have varied, shortlasting programmes, primarily thematic exhibitions but also other types of programme activities: workshops, lectures, presentations, chamber theatre, music and film festivals and the like, while, when it comes to permanent exhibitions, various occasional animation programmes are crucial, as they breathe new life into the unchanging content. While such activities include the Long Night of Museums, it is also necessary to consider the need to organise similar events not only in May, when the Museum witnesses the largest attendance as a result of the school season excursions, but also in the months when the interest in the Museum offer fades.
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- Ancestresses and female legacy in Marijana Čanak's 'Foremothers'
- Using the term "gynocriticism", coined by Elaine Showalter fifty years ago, and other critical practices which explore the creativity of women, the paper sets out to explore continuity of women's narratives about experience, change, happiness and misfortune represented in the second book of stories by Marijana Čanak. Her collection of stories, titled Pramatere easily translated as "Foremothers", delves deep into the lives of several generations of women who fight against the shortcomings of their respective lives, and struggle to keep the legacy of their grandmothers and mothers alive. Marijana Čanak focuses on the aims gynocriticism has defined as the most important, such as the objective to change the male-oriented literary heritage and to focus on the lives of women who have been silenced, marginalized and neglected.
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- And now for something completely different
- My central premise is that approaching political literature as a grassroots expression of American democracy offers a crucial vantage point for a critical look at America's erroneous conceptions of itself. Traceable to the ubiquitous culture of spin, questions about the level of citizens' participation - or indeed, lack thereof - in the political process are really questions about the degree to which political apathy is rooted in and reflected by the culture in which we all participate.
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- Anika and the big Other
- According to Lacan (1996), 'the big Other' (le grand Autre) is a world of language where the self is constituted. It is often a space of empty signifiers in which the subject, deprived of any solid reference and radically decentred with endless slips of the 'symbolic order', is caught in the narcissistic reflections of the mirror, dispersed and totally overcome by the very force of desire. Lacan believes that desire can be satisfied only with active engagement with 'the big Other', in a 'successful' interpersonal communication which is only possible in rare flash-like moments. This communicative situation is, hence, conceived as a location where desire can be satisfied, but also as a process of division, a necessary excuse which covers up an endless search for the missing object. Accordingly, based on Lacan's theoretical postulates, the paper analyses the functioning of the discourse of love, and the strategies of constituting the intimate self in the imperial social orders. By interpreting 'full' and 'empty' speech in Andrić's novella Anika's Times (1931), the paper attempts to show the ways in which the self, torn between desire for and deficiency of the Ottoman 'big Other', is realised.
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- Announcement of apocalypse in the discourse of mass media
- The paper tackles the discourse of mass media, which is becoming more aggressive in an attempt to transform even the banal news into sensational ones. As the images of violence, misfortune and death become more explicit, and people are informed about a number of pending catastrophes, media consumers increasingly seem to feel anxiety and fear, speculating about the predictions which might actually come true. The paper also features a research which explores the scope of the influence of mass media on the everyday life of the media consumers in Serbia.
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- Annuity from architectural monuments
- Research, restoration and maintenance of immovable cultural heritage requires funding. Before proposing a new way of funding that is in accordance with society possibilities and market principles, all the problems, field situations and needs should be professionally assessed. Monument annuity represents a way of including the immovable cultural heritage into economic domain. If based on professional principles, this would not represent an attack, a denial or profanation of heritage but could be the first step in regulation of the monumental potential of a territory. Monumental annuity provides sustainable monument management, defines maximum number of monument users, restricts monument exploitation, encourages proper attitude towards the monument, stimulates income, balances expenses, provides incentive for further exploration, provides funds needed for research and maintenance etc. During research, we used the theoretical and practical experiences of countries that have introduced payment of monument annuity.
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- Anthropologic analysis of the use of urban topography and the interactive process of reconsidering recollections
- Anthropologic analysis of the use of urban topography refers to the use of space in cultural praxis implying analysis of the meanings given to this space in a socio-cultural context. This paper studies a site specific project Uprkos vatri (Despite Fire) and the manner in which an anthropological research can contribute to the implementation and presentation of such art projects. In this regard, the quotidian life and the artistic interventions in the Belgrade street of Kosančićev venac and their relationship were studied.
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- Anthropologist in a synthetic world
- Entering a completely new field of research, such as the research of synthetic worlds, places unique methodological challenges before anthropologists: it would seem that a new medium, which defines a new space and allows creation of new cultures, requires new methodological tools for fieldwork and data collection. However, a careful observation of the conditions of motion through synthetic worlds shows that, in this field, a researcher is faced with the same methodological problems as in any 'classical' study of individual, specific culture, opening up even questions of validity of many previous RL researches. Analysis, as well as former practice, shows that observation with participation - as defined by Malinowski back in 1922 - is still a valid fundamental principle of ethnographic field research. Furthermore, with researching in virtual/synthetic worlds, it has become clear that participation is crucial for full understanding of any researched culture - a detail that is consistently neglected in many (primarily domestic) ethnographic researches.
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- Anti-semitic discourse and rejection of the pursuit of truth
- In his text with a cynical title 'A contribution to the critique of anti-semitism', Zoran Kinđić actually tries to defend classic anti-semitic attitudes. He accuses me of adopting the ideology of political correctness, claiming that my understanding of anti-semitism is too broad and that animosity and hatred toward the Jews are not present in his texts. However, he also asserts that the majority of Jewish people have agreed on the crucifixion of Jesus. He demanded that I should provide the argument that will prove that his attitudes are self-evidently anti-semitic and presented the arguments that were supposed to demonstrate the contradiction between my belief that Jesus from Nazareth is the Messiah and my critique of the christian anti-semitism. After I have provided the demanded argument, he reprimands in his next text with a title 'On incorrectness of the exponent of political correctness' that I have focused solely on providing the arguments that his attitudes are anti-semitic and that I have not considered his critique of my position. In this way, Kinđić supposes, all his arguments are practically justified. He has also claimed that I have no right to consider them afterwards. However, in this paper I do precisely that. I demonstrate that his arguments on the contradiction of my position do not prove anything, because in the final instance, they are based on his own opinion. The claim that I have no right to analyze them, I denote as the rejection of the pursuit of truth.
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- Anti-semitic discourse as linguistic expressive paternalism
- In this paper, I present some remarks about an example of Christian anti-Semitism. It is about well known anti-Semitic attitudes that Zoran Kinđić supports in his paper with some scholarly pretensions. I use this example to illustrate one kind of unacceptable paternalistic discourse. Namely, I argue that when it comes to basic eschatological teachings of Abrahamic religions, even the mildest form of what I have previously defined as linguistic-expressive paternalism - what could also be called conversational paternalism - cannot be reasonably justified.
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- Antinomies of the Yougoslav rock-n-roll in the sixties
- The author gives a parallel comparative overview of the Yugoslav society in the 1960s on the one hand, and the rock-n-roll music which established itself as a dominant music trend of the young generations of the decade, on the other. An attempt is made to answer the question of how rock culture as a phenomenon of capitalist and imperialist America has found a place in the cultural map of a socialist anti-imperialist country such as Yugoslavia. The article considers the 'crossroads' in which Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia had found itself: while the society had programmed its development in accordance with the materialistic grounds of Marxism (with relevant ideology) its culture unintentionally followed the Weber idealistic perspective. The author aims to prove a thesis under which rock-n-roll, although it came from outside, was not forcefully imposed to Yugoslavia (economically or politically) because rock-n-roll itself represented opposition to the dominant culture of the American society in which it originated. In this part of the article, the author holds an argument with the conspiracy theorists who believe that rock-n-roll had the role of a Trojan horse that would later speed up the ruin of communism. The main reason for such a quick and warm reception of rock-n-roll by the young is found in the fact that even pre-war Yugoslavia had a well grounded tradition of jazz and pop music with adequate culture that rock-n-roll leaned on and enriched. However, rock-n-roll was not that simply assimilated in the land of the communist and antifascist fight heroes. Its acceptance entailed many contradictions, quite different from the ones that were dominant in the USA or Great Britain. The contradictions here arose from the features of the social system and the traditional cultural patterns. According to the author, the acculturation wave that carried the rock-n-roll to Yugoslavia was successful because rock-n-roll is the kind of music that has universal significance and outreach. It cannot be clean cut down to the attributes of its overall esthetic expression - social, anthropological or psychological.