A Contribution to Researching the Official Remembrance Culture of Novi Sad in the Sense of Researching the Anthropology of the City Cover Image

Прилог проучавању званичне културе сећања Новог Сада у контексту истраживања антропологије града
A Contribution to Researching the Official Remembrance Culture of Novi Sad in the Sense of Researching the Anthropology of the City

Author(s): Kristijan Obšust
Subject(s): History and theory of sociology, Applied Sociology
Published by: Етнографски институт САНУ
Keywords: Novi Sad; identity; culture; memory; anthropology of the city; urban anthropology; odonomastics;

Summary/Abstract: This paper analyzes certain characteristics of the identity of Novi Sad as a specific multiconfessional and multinational environment in the context of commemoration and de-commemoration, as a reflection of official culture of remembrance as articulated in public space. The creation of the identity of the city, different practices and tendencies in creating the official memory of Novi Sad, are viewed diachronically, from the mid-19th century to the dissolution of SFRY, as a form of (meta)text. Changes in odonyms and other elements of remembrance culture in public spaces, especially in the historic part of the city, simultaneously point to the specificity of Novi Sad as a dynamic urban environment and to the possibilities of applying urban anthropology to research on a slew of different topics.

  • Issue Year: LXVIII/2020
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 131-148
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Serbian