"A gdje su oni bili dosad?" Starenje, skrb i napuštanje u jednom bosanskom gradu

Author(s): Azra Hromadžic,Jason Danely,Miloš Milenkovic,Sonja Podgorelec,Tihana Rubic,Željka Petrovic Osmak,Paul Stubbs / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 38/2015

This article delves into Bosnia-Herzegovina, and especially into the town of Bihać, to ethnographically examine the changing nature of the state and family, as visible through practices of elder care. I use my ethnographic data gathered at a nursing home Vitalis in Bihać, and especially the predicament of an elderly Bosnian woman whom I call Zemka, to argue that both the state and family in postwar and postsocialist Bosnia-Herzegovina materialize as semi-absent. In the process of unpacking these multiple semi-absences, I reveal the lived effects of changing postwar and postsocialist state, and altering kinship relations as they affect "ordinary" people.

"A Labour of Love?" Informal Eldercare Work and Domestic Space in Contemporary Croatia

Author(s): Duga Mavrinac / Language(s): English / Issue: 38/2015

In recent years, domestic work has become the centre of many scientific studies. Still, in most cases, disregarding its specific aspects and features, domestic work is displayed as a homogeneous category. In contrast, by observing daily activities and narrations of the live-in eldercare workers, specific working conditions, dispositional attitudes, duties and obligations are disclosed. The article suggests that in order to fully comprehend the extent of the eldercare work it is equally important to place the research where care work is located – within the domestic space. Hence, only by entering the deepest void of this work, space for exploitation, struggle and invisibility can be reduced to a minimum.

"Do You Have Any Empties?"

Bottle Collectors’ Interactions in Public Spaces in Zagreb

Author(s): Dino Vukušic,Stephanie Stelko / Language(s): English / Issue: 39/2016

This paper describes the practices of people who collect discarded bottles and cans during public events in Zagreb, Croatia, which they return to recycling centers in order to receive a bottle deposit needed to supplement their low incomes. In addition to an ethnographic section in which we briefly describe this underrepresented aspect of everyday life in Zagreb, we address the symbolics at play in bottle collectors’ interactions among themselves and with "bottle providers" – people who gather in public spaces and consume drinks from bottles and cans. In so doing, we describe how the presence of a marginalized social group becomes visible in public spaces.

"Ezoteryzm w kulturze Europy" - konferencja na Katolickim Uniwersytecie Lubelskim Jana Pawła II

Author(s): Diana Sobieraj / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2012

"Kodikët e Shqipërisë" (les Codices d'Albanie)

Une Publication de la Direction Générale des Archives d'Etat

Author(s): Andromaqi Gjergji / Language(s): French / Issue: 01/2004

"Kodikét e Shqipërisë" est une publication scientifique-critique illustrée, visant présenter devant le lecteur un patrimoine culturel rare, créé en un espace temporel qui s'étend sur plus de dix siècles. Cette publication de la Direction Générale des Archives est préparée avec un grand soin par un groupe d'auteurs albanais et étrangers, sous la rédaction scientifique de Prof. Dr Shaban Sinani. C'est, sans doute, une oeuvre d'importance particulière, d'abord par le matériel authentique présenté, un matériel qui pour des raisons diverses a été très peu connu et encore moins étudié et apprécié. Par conséquent, c'était une bonne idée d'inclure dans ce volume les principales études publiées jusqu'à présent sur les codex, ainsi que les catalogues décrivant le contenu de plus de 100 codex. Une grande importance revient aussi aux illustrations dans ce volume présentant des miniatures, des vignettes, des lettres initiales stylisées etc. Tout cela, pris dans son ensemble, donne à cette publication l'aspect d'une petite encyclopédie consacrée aux petits arts appliqués et à leur développement au cours d'une période de plus de dix siècles. Pour les chercheurs, la période allant de l'antiquité tardive jusqu'à l'occupation ottomane a été relativement pauvre en sources documentaires. Dorénavant, les informations documentaires augmentent d'une décennie à l'autre.

"Nacionalni heroj" u domaćoj naučnofantastičnoj književnosti

Author(s): Ivan Ðordevic / Language(s): Serbian / Publication Year: 0

Appearance of heroes from national history/mythology in Serbian science fiction prose is characteristic for last two decades of the 20th century. Karađorđe Petrović, Prince Miloš Obrenović, Prince Marko (Marko Kraljević) and other national heroes entered the Serbian SF stage simultaneously with processes of returning to tradition which were characteristic for the wider social context of Serbia of that time. Primary goal of this paper is to determine ways in which those heroes are represented in Serbian genre literature, with premise that a "national hero" is in fact a social and cultural construction determined by historical and political context. Symbolical recollection and "fishing" of national heroes from a historical/mythological "pool" in this particular domain of popular culture is discussed from the aspect of their positioning, re-contextualization and revalorization with regard to the sociopolitical reality of culture in which such literature emerged.

"Ne olvass, csak kenjed!"

Ráolvasások: Gyűjtemény a történeti forrásokból (1488–1850), B kötet Közreadja és a bevezető tanulmányokat írta Ilyefalvi Emese

Author(s): G. Péter Tóth / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 3-4/2015

Ilyefalvi Emese: Ráolvasások. Gyűjtemény a történeti forrásokból (1488–1850) B kötet. Közreadja és a bevezető tanulmányokat írta Ilyefalvi Emese (A magyar folklór szövegvilága 2/B kötet) Balassi Kiadó, Budapest, 2014.344 oldal + 29 oldal színes melléklet Az A–B kötet együttes ára 8400 F

"Pobuna označitelja": suvremena radijacija pojma bricolage

Author(s): Ines Prica / Language(s): Croatian / Publication Year: 0

In this paper the concept of bricolage is applied to the paradoxical contexts of transitory societies using the translation of general theoretical concepts to those politically recognizable. On the one hand, notions of intersubjectivity, improvisation and self-organisation suggest social functioning based on the principles of free market, management and self-government; while on the other, common understanding of transition as the 'application of democracy ' according to a model, introduces radically different background of 'bricolage' as non-inventiveness, imitation, fragmentary connection and 'irrational mentality'.

"Pridodato u prevodu": nematerijalno kulturno nasleđe u prevođenju i primeni evropskih politikâ doživotnog obrazovanja u Republici Srbiji

Author(s): Ljubica Milosavljevic,Miloš Milenkovic / Language(s): Serbian / Publication Year: 0

Polazeći od noseće pretpostavke istraživačkog programa antropologije javnih i praktičnih politika, prema kojoj zakoni, strategije, vizije i planovi nisu "čisti" pravno-politički akti proceduralnog karaktera, već da "kriju" neke specifične, izabrane ili neintencionalne, antropologiji tradicionalno zanimljive institucionalne izbore iz obilja nematerijalnog kulturnog nasleđa (poput preskripcije identiteta ili standarda normalnosti), iznosimo preliminarne rezultate istraživanja primene evropskih politika doživotnog obrazovanja u Republici Srbiji. Preliminarna analiza "prevođenja" odnosno specifične glokalne kontekstualizacije, recepcije i instrumentalizacije pomenutih politikâ pokazuje da je na snazi praksa prenošenja, pravne i proceduralne transplantacije bez prilagođavanja kontekstu u kojem politikâ treba da bude primenjena. U slučaju neprilagođene politike doživotnog obrazovanja, izostanak prilagođavanja neophodnog da lokalna verzija a) odgovara međunarodno usaglašenim ciljevima i da istovremeno b) zaživi u praksi, objašnjava se na primerima diskrepancije lokalnih pojmova radnog vremena, neformalnog obrazovanja, "odgovarajućeg" životnog doba za obrazovanje s jedne, i pojmova originalno ugrađenih u tu politiku, s druge strane.

"SACRUM" І "PROFANUM": CВЯЩЕННЕ І СВІТСЬКЕ В ЦЕРКОВНОМУ МИСТЕЦТВІ

Author(s): Michael Selivatchov / Language(s): Ukrainian / Issue: 1/2017

Purpose of Article. The purposes of the article are to determinate the contents and limits of the notions "Sacral art", "Ecclesiastical art", "Christian" art", to trace the reasons and causes of the changes in the domestic usage of those notions within 20th century in the Art’ history, as well as in the Artists’ practice. Methodology. On the background of his own professional experience and analysis of the special literature the author has prepared an essay on the border of Art History and Cultural Anthropology with applying of historical and historiographical approaches. Scientific Novelty. The provenance of the abovementioned relative but not synonymic notions is traced; their contents and limits are précised; adequacy of using in contemporary Ukrainian and possibility to translate on other languages are checked. Conclusions. The domestic phenomena of our days, known as a "sacral art", do not fully combine an artistic and ecclesiastical fetchers, as it usually coincided in the past. That is why in such a cases applying of a modern conventional notion "sacral art" is more appropriate, than of traditional for our country during 19th – beginning of 20th ct. term "ecclesiastical art". It especially concerns the decorative arrangement of the Church’ services, which is much more close to the art craft or art industry, than to the art itself.

"SIMPLEMENTE MARIA": Naming Labor, Placing People in the Global Service Economy

Author(s): Karen Richman / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2007

On a Sunday morning in April, while visiting family in Newton, Massachusetts, I joined my parents and others for brunch in the restaurant of the local Marriott hotel. As an ethnographer of Haitian society, I immediately took notice that the men refilling the abundant buffets, cooking omelets, and clearing tables, and Haitian women waiting the tables were Haitian immigrants. The name badges worn by the workers confirmed their Haitian origins. But the badges identified them by a strange and unprecedented form of appellation. They were assigned typically Haitian first names—Frantz, Yves, Marie, Jeanne—but no surnames, that is, they did not have the kinds of surname one would expect to compliment and complete these first names, for example, Pierre, Belizaire, Jean-Baptiste, Saint-Fort. In place of their middle name, rather, was a city or province in Haiti! And where their last name might have been was the nation-state itself. They were ‘Frantz, Cap Haitien, Haiti;’ ‘Yves, Aux Cayes, Haiti;’ ‘Marie-Carmel, Portau-Prince, Haiti;’ and ‘Jeanne, Jacmel, Haiti.’ There were other employees who were ‘of,’ as opposed to simply ‘from,’ the United States. They were white and worked the more visible jobs of hostess and cashier. They weren’t ‘of’ a nation-state but were surnamed for a state in the US. A receptionist at the front desk was Cathy, Newton, Massachusetts.The apposition of a unique person’s first name with a concrete locality in a ‘real’ nation-state made unconscious sense to everyone in my party of four except me. For them, Marriott’s ‘writing of identity’ had taken on a sort of inevitability. If the first name, city, and country were already on the badges, these signifiers must have had status in a real or natural order. But I was struck by the non-sense of putting a first name and a location together, as though there were some inherent linkage between the elements. I was unnerved by the sight of human bodies as props for a new kind of signification.

"Srbija jača od Nokie"

Politike identiteta u postkomunističkoj Srbiji

Author(s): Miroslava Maleševic / Language(s): Serbian / Publication Year: 0

"Where were they until now?" Aging, Care and Abandonment in a Bosnian Town

Author(s): Azra Hromadžic,Jason Danely,Miloš Milenkovic,Sonja Podgorelec,Tihana Rubic,Željka Petrovic Osmak,Paul Stubbs / Language(s): English / Issue: 38/2015

This article delves into Bosnia-Herzegovina, and especially into the town of Bihać, to ethnographically examine the changing nature of the state and family, as visible through practices of elder care. I use my ethnographic data gathered at a nursing home Vitalis in Bihać, and especially the predicament of an elderly Bosnian woman whom I call Zemka, to argue that both the state and family in postwar and postsocialist Bosnia-Herzegovina materialize as semi-absent. In the process of unpacking these multiple semi-absences, I reveal the lived effects of changing postwar and postsocialist state, and altering kinship relations as they affect "ordinary" people.

"You can't just step from one place to another": The socio-politics of illegality in migration from Zimbabwe to South Africa

Author(s): Shannon Morreira / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2015

Drawing on anthropological fieldwork conducted in Musina and Cape Town, South Africa in 2010 and 2011, in this paper I present a qualitative analysis of the (largely illegal) means of entry of Zimbabwean research participants into South Africa, and their at-tempts to seek legal status once in the country. I present an ethnographic consideration of one woman’s experiences crossing the border, augmented with quantitative data gathered from a sample of 45 migrants, in order to discuss the socio-political construction of ‘illegality’ in South Africa. I argue that while migrants may have entered the country illegally, this was in a large degree dictated by structural pressures. Migrants’ attempts to legalise themselves are also structurally constrained: I, thus, argue that there is a need to unpack the socio-political process by which a category of illegality is made.

"Za tango je potrebno dvoje"

Ekonomija i identiteti Srba i Slovenaca u postsocijalizmu

Author(s): Ildiko Erdei / Language(s): Serbian / Publication Year: 0

"ТЕАТР ДЛЯ ДІАЛОГУ": НА ПЕРЕТИНІ З АКТИВІЗМОМ І ТЕРАПІЄЮ?

Author(s): Olha Velymchanytsia / Language(s): Ukrainian / Issue: 1/2015

This paper deals with a theatrical practice that became widespread during the events of Euromaidan – "Theatre for Dialogue". The studying of Augusto Boal’s "Theatre of the Oppressed" technique, which is the basis of "Theater for Dialogue", is primary in the analysis. "Theatre of the Oppressed" is not purely theatrical phenomenon – it lies at the inter-section of activism and social therapy. Being the reaction on the totalitarian regime in Brazil, "Theatre of the Oppressed" technique has become widespread all over the world, mainly in the areas with military and civil conflicts. So as soon as Ukrainian people faced severe social and political challenges, this theatrical technique reached our cities through its practitioners from different countries.

"ЦИФРОВИЙ СУВЕРЕНІТЕТ" У СУЧАСНОМУ СВІТІ: ВИКЛИКИ ТА МОЖЛИВОСТІ ДЛЯ УКРАЇНИ

Author(s): Dmitro Dubov / Language(s): Ukrainian / Issue: 1/2015

The article deals with providing "digital sovereignty." The article analyzes the key problems of building a "digital sovereignty" of the Ukrainian state and the necessary conditions for this. Were analyzed by two dominant scenario of building a "digital sovereignty". First, conditionally, based on the object-oriented approach and the implementation of the classical Westphalian system in the digital world. The second – is based on the concept of "corporatized sovereignty" and is focused on the formation of the necessary institutional, organizational and economic mechanisms. It is concluded that it is appropriate to strategically build "digital sovereignty" Ukraine on the basis of the second scenario.

#Протестът: антологизиране, брандиране и институционализиране на протеста

Author(s): Milena Katsarska / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 1/2016

The text suggests an analysis of the “culture of protest“ within the time frame of the “protest year of 2013“ in the cultural and social context of Bulgaria. The basis of the study – inscription (“thick description“) and specification (“diagnosis“) in the sense of Clifford Geerz (1971) – is a “microscopic“ social fact, namely the book Smilov, Daniel and Lea Vaysova (eds.). #Theprotest: Analyses and Positions in the Bulgarian press, the Summer of 2013. Sofia, “Iztok-Zapad“, 2013 (Смилов, Даниел и Леа Вайсова (съст.). #Протестът: анализи и позиции в българската преса, лято 2013, София, „Изток-Запад“, 2013). The publication which collects and (re)frames selected media stream within particular period of time, i.e. the book as an abstract collection of words/images (text) existing in a material form, is here understood as a social fact in the sense of Emile Durkheim. The adoption of such approach allows the comment to acquire specific outlines – the study of this „text-as-a-book“ neither brings to the fore the abstract dimensions (the text) of the book, which is usually the field of the literary critique and the text hermeneutics, nor focalizes exclusively the material dimensions, which is reserved for the history of the book and the analytical bibliography. The aim here is to describe and understand society and the social by examining and tracing the connections which exert an influence and exist between the simultaneous engagement of the abstract and the material side of this book as a social fact, as well as the social activities within it.

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Amanda Krzyworzeka "Rolnicze strategie pracy i przetrwania"

Author(s): Zofia Wlodarczyk / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 9/2015

(Re)definisanje tradicije na primeru world music fenomena

Author(s): Marija Ajduk (dev. Ristivojevic) / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 1/2014

The paper problematizes the understanding of the concept of tradition in the context of the world music phenomenon. Marketed as a hybrid music genre, from the perspective of anthropological theory, the world music genre is a complex cultural phenomenon, the result of mixing global and local influences which are reflected not only in the creation of a specific sound, but through different perceptions of music itself (the audience, musicians, producers, creators of cultural policies etc.) By analyzing the Serbian world music scene as exemplified by the work of the World Music association of Serbia, as well as the Serbia World Music Festival in Takovo, I will attempt to determine the way in which the concept of world music is perceived in local narratives, whether it is experienced as a form of musical tradition and if so, what is signified and represented as tradition in this context.