"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.

"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.

"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.

"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.

"Ханска Украйна - Мукатаа Томбасар" (края на XVII-XVIII век)

Author(s): Alexandar Sereda / Language(s): English,Bulgarian / Publication Year: 0

The aim of the paper is to explore the region of Northwest Black Sea lands in the early 17th-18th centuries, in the context of the Ottoman and Crimean administrative and territorial structure; the political preconditions for the formation of Khan Ukraine - special administrative and territorial unit with the Ukrainian-Kazakh population under Crimean governance; the organization of the economical and fiscal district "Muqataa Tombasar" in the framework of Khan Ukraine. It presents the defter (register) of the revenues and expanses in Muqataa Tombasar and localizes the settlements and their population in the Northwest Black Sea region.

(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.

(С)поделена природа? Природно наследство и местно развитие в един регион от българо-сръбското пограничие

Author(s): Ivaylo Markov / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 1/2017

The article is focused on a border region between Bulgaria and Serbia which is geographically dominated by Ruy Mountain (whose ridge is the boundary between Bulgaria and Serbia) and the valley of Erma river forming two huge defiles along its way in this mountainous region – the Lomnishko defile (in Bulgaria) and the Poganovsko defile (in Serbia). The micro region (from natural and geographical point of view) shared until 1919 several cultural, social and economic characteristics (from an anthropological point of view), thus forming a common historical and geographical entity. The demarcation of the boundary between Bulgaria and Serbia as a result of the Treaty of Neuilly split the region between the two countries. The border regime, which was rigid and impermeable through the whole second half of the 20th century, made the zones on the both sides of the border well guarded, but industrially underdeveloped periphery. With the opening of the border in the period after 1989 and especially with the intensification of the European integration processes the character of the Bulgarian-Serbian border is undergoing changes and is gradually turning into a bridge for diverse trans-border initiatives. A great deal of these initiatives are connected with the well preserved ecology of the region, which is evaluated at present as a treasure by the local authorities and communities who believe it to be an important resource and instrument for the overcoming of the peripheral position of the region.

“PRIVLAČNOST ‘ISLAMSKE DRŽAVE’ REZULTAT JE STRAHA, BIJESA I NEIZVJESNOSTI ZBOG NEPRAVDE I NEJEDNAKOSTI ŠIROM SVIJETA”

Author(s): Ziauddin Sardar,Harun Karcic / Language(s): Bosnian / Issue: 69/2017

Ziauddin Sardar (1951) is a Muslim scholar and a writer of Pakistani origin. His fields of interests include Muslim thought, studies about the future, philosophy of knowledge and science and other cultural studies in the widest sense. He is the author of numerous books, essays, articles, discussions as well as columns and television programmes. So far he has published or edited, on his own and with other co-authors over 35 books of great significance. The following are the most prominent of these: The Future of Muslim Civilisation (1979), Islamic Futures: The Shape of Ideas to Come (1985), Postmodernism and the Other (1998), Orientalism (1999), Why Do People Hate America? (2002). The British magazine “Prospect” listed him amongst the 100 most influential public figures of the Great Brittan. He recently stayed in Sarajevo responding to the invitation by The Centre for Advance Studies where he held a workshop titled: Navigating Postnormal Balkans: A Hands On Futures Workshop and Polylogue. Dr. Harun Karčić, a representative of The Centre for Advance Studies discussed with him a number of issues including the identity of Muslims in Europe, radicalism, the attitude of Islam regarding natural sciences and postmodernity.

15. Yüzyilda Hitay’da Bir Timurlu Sefir: Giyaseddin Nakkaş’in Hitay Gözlemleri

Author(s): Betül Mutlu / Language(s): Turkish / Issue: 67/2011

Hıtay Sefaretnamesi is our oldest known travel book written by Hoca Gıyaseddin Nakkaş in Persian in 1422 and transleted into Ottoman Turkish in 1728 by Küçükçelebizade İsmail Asım. Mirza Baysungur of the Timurid Mirza’s was commissioned as an envoy Hoca Gıyaseddin Nakkaş , while performing the embassy official duty, has not only satisfied with the physical observations but also dealt with social and cultural structure of Hıtay society and transferred them to his prepared report in detail. İn this regard Hıtay Sefaretnamesi can not be ignored as a source is important in the 15th century research as well as being our first travel book. The present paper analyses the narration and observation notes of the Hıtay Sefaretnamesi.

1920 – 1950’li YILLAR AZERBAYCAN EDEBİYATINDA MİLLİ MANEVİ İDEALLER HAKİM İDEOLOJİNİN GİRDABINDA

Author(s): Yasar RIZAYEV / Language(s): Turkish / Issue: 2/2009

1920-1950s, national-spiritual ideals of the Azerbaijan literature in the servitude of the judge ideology. This article is dealt from in which condition was national-spiritual ideals of Azerbaijan literature in the servitude of the soviet ideology and problems of Azerbaijani writers lived during this period.

A Jungian Interpretation of the Phenomenon of Heavy Metal

Author(s): Lozanka Peycheva / Language(s): English / Issue: 68/2017

Ana Stefanova. Khevi Met”l Kulturata: Izsledvane po analitichnopsikhologicheska antropologiia. Ruse: GAIANA book&art studio, 2017. 360 pp. In Bulgarian.

A Lifetime of Crisis

The Story of a Dalmatian Peasant in the Mid-20th Century

Author(s): Nataša Miškovic / Language(s): English / Issue: 19/2016

This paper explores the traumatic experiences of Stevo, a Serbian-Orthodox peasant, and his coping strategies as revealed in his autobiography. Stevo wrote down his experiences at the young age of thirty in the years after World War II. The critical events in his life had various causes: poverty, family conflicts, migration, political convictions, communal unrest, deportation, and war. In his first 30 years of life, however, Stevo experienced more trauma than most people do in an entire lifetime, and these traumas are additionally closely entangled with the history of Yugoslavia. Carefully contextualised and combined with further written and oral information about his family, Stevo’s life story constitutes an excellent case for an historical-anthropological lifeworld study that demonstrates how macrohistory influences microhistory, and vice versa.

A moldvai csángók vallásossága

Hagyományos világkép és modernizáció

Author(s): Lehel Peti / Language(s): Hungarian / Publication Year: 2008

These essays the author shows the operation of the moldavian csangos traditional religious forms of consciousness, the contemporary role of alterations occurred due to the modernization and transformation of communities based on ethnic, cultural, anthropological and sociological aspects of religion.Special merit of the book is that the observations and conclusions presented are based on their own collection, but confidently apply the latest scientific findings.

A szakrális tér Csíkrákoson

Author(s): Krisztina Császár / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 3-4/2008

In my essay, I have undertaken to reveal and to describe the sacral configuration of Csíkrákos, a settlement on the Land of the Szeklers. I have kept in view the fact that this space imbued with sanctity is not only a network of inanimate objects, but it is a changing, living reality, which joins in itself the divine and the human. According to my assumption the region is formed and shaped by the people, who live there, and by the transcendental reality. My aim is to offer a whole image of the sacral space network of the village, of its changing in time, revealing also the reason of the changing. From the point of view of the methodology I followed the idea, that says that one of the aspects of the human being is striving for communication, but at the same time because of the limited character of the language not everything can be explained by means of words, language. My fundamental written sources: História (History) (1661-1711) written by the historian Mihály Cserei, the period included by Domus Historia 1698-1987, which is at the parish. The manuscript contains the notes of the parsons that served at Csíkrákos. The line of the written sources is closed by the work written by the teacher László Császár – who was born and taught in the village –, with the title Csíkrákos monográfiája (The Monograph of Csíkrákos). During my work I also relied on the local traditions, legends, and life stories. I have applied the diachronic and synchronic methods for the same region, this way there have become visible the modifications of the limits of the saint region, as well as sometimes the sacral centres are indicated at different points of the region. The human community that settles down in the region, as the first act of the settlement, establish the sacral centre of the region, in case of Csíkrákos we can also observe that the community takes possession again and again of the same region, rearranging by this the region used by the ancestors. Inside the same region the saint and the profane are present at the same time. In the essay I have followed with attention the relation of the saint region and profane time, as well as the profane region and the time impregnated with the saint. At Csíkrákos there also appeared the sacralised objects of the identity building, and following the change of the places of the sacral centres I have also followed the problem of desacralization.

A szegénység újratermelődése: A struktúrától a kultúráig, és vissza

Gondolatok Orlando Patterson és Ethan Fosse „The Cultural Matrix: Understanding Black Youth” című kötete kapcsán

Author(s): Béla Janky / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 2/2016

This non-comprehensive (review) essay focuses on the relationship between cultural traits and economic integration of social groups living in deep poverty. My argument relies on the contemporary cultural theories of American sociology. I suggest that current public and scientific discourses tend to adopt a narrow interpretation of culture. False but popular beliefs in the power of cultural forces defined in this narrow way could support harmful measures and policies. However, a more comprehensive concept of culture could lay the ground for fruitful investigations of economically relevant cultural effects. I conclude that in order to understand the reproduction of poverty better, sociologists should not shy away from the investigation of the roles of cultural traits but should refuse simplistic concepts of, and theories about culture.

A Women’s Performative Calendar as a Strategy for Dealing with “Absence”

Author(s): Magdalena Sztandara / Language(s): English / Issue: 19/2016

The article analyses the phenomenon of a calendar that seems to be an integral part of national and local identities. A calendar exposes dominant ideologies and refers to a specific construct of the past: collective memory and the practice of commemoration. Activists of Serbian feminist and anti-militarist organisations, called the Žene u crnom (Women in Black), “contest” the existing calendar and attempt to expose the processes hidden in the present scenarios of cultural memory: ethno-nationalisation and simultaneous patriarchy. Female activists are trying to bring their own alternative calendar into the public discourse. They have celebrated “new dates” through protests and demonstrations on the streets, which represent a usage of the fundamental tools of drama and performance. Introducing performative reflection carries another benefit: We can discuss the strategies of constructing the calendar as well as issues related to the strategies and tactics of collective action, namely those of intervention in social reality.

Absürd Bir Tiyatro Dili : Jean Tardieu, « Gişe »

Author(s): Mustafa Kol / Language(s): Turkish / Issue: 65/2011

Jean Tardieu’s short play Le Guichet, which has been considered within the Absurd Theater part Tradition, is in the work of Theater of chamber. The play presents a very striking part from the rhythm of like; It covers the unrelatedness of human relationships, loneliness of humans, being in the gap, searching for happiness in the world of dream. They confront to a customer and clerk who is sitting on a desk. Actually, the customer indulges into a bureaucratic questioned with a humorous and ironic tone. The fact that the customer will pass away is revealed in the horoscope of the customer and when the customer leaves the office he dies in a car accident.

ADAPTATION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSES IN EAST TOWNS TO THE HISTORICAL ENVIRONMENT (CASE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN)

Author(s): Javad ABDOLHOSEYNI / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2009

The greatest problem for such kind of historical cities is reconstruction ways of their structure and types of construction. Considering characteristic cities and regional specifications of Iran by this goal, some researching that belonging to changing possible to environment resolution for their development was carried out. For example, Yazd got the most power in the last periods for out of city buildings according to its natural climate and social-economical opportunities. These are low-storied yard spaces, construction complexes and many-storied buildings. Adaptation matter to historical environment and adaptation character of new viewing buildings and multi-storied buildings of Iran are in other direction fully. It is a separated system of powerfully prepared group construction of multi-sectional manystoried buildings.

Adding Value to Urban Spaces

Two Examples from Lisbon

Author(s): Maria Assunção Gato / Language(s): English / Issue: 39/2016

Through a comparative analysis of two urban spaces located in the city of Lisbon, Portugal, I intend to demonstrate how some values can be added to space in order to attract certain residents, investors or interests, and how these urban spaces make use of these values to differentiate and promote themselves in various ways. In considering the gentrification process in the city centre and the construction of a spatial and social neighborhood identity in a more peripheral area, I focus on the urban middle classes and some social strategies of belonging.