"Погребение – сватба" – идея и об редна практика

"Pogrebenie – svatba" – ideя i ob redna praktika

Author(s): Vanya Nikolova / Language(s): Serbian / Publication Year: 0

The matter of issue is the wedding of the young unmarried defuncts which is considered as a "funeral-wedding" in the relevant literature. Mythologic reason and basic idea of the "funeral-wedding" are looking for at the intersection of the two fundamental traditional life cycle rituals mythological planes – the wedding and the funeral. The comparison between the traditional ethnographic data and those from the period of the transition is made on the thematic level with the aim of finding their mutual relation and reasons for this phenomenon’s survivle.

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

Author(s): Alexander 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.

#METOO AND US POLITICS: ANALYSING THE TWITTER CONVERSATION

Author(s): Vittoria Bernardini / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2021

The #MeToo movement has had a profound cultural impact on US society, and notably on US party politics. While many studies have addressed the #MeToo-related controversy arising from the Brett Kavanaugh nomination to Supreme Court Justice in 2018, the relationship between #MeToo and US politics before this event has remained understudied. This article, therefore, addresses this gap by looking at the role of politics at the beginning of the #MeToo movement. Focusing on the first six months of online activity on Twitter (October 2017 – April 2018), over 2 million tweets with the #MeToo hashtag are analyzed to identify the main activity patterns across the dataset and to gain insight on user behavior and participation in the conversation. Results point to the weaponization of #MeToo in the political context from its inception. It is suggested that #MeToo reflects the polarized political climate in the US and that it can be conceptualized as part of the wider “culture wars” (Hunter 1991) that characterize the public debate.

#NeDamoGaleriju

Author(s): Irfan Hošić / Language(s): Bosnian / Issue: 1/2018

Iz ove vremenske perspektive odbrana Gradske galerije čita se kao podvig ogromnih razmjera koji zaslužuje određeni spomenik, tj. simbol šireg društvenog značaja nad kojim je moguće prisjećati se te velike i značajne bitke. [...]

A Field for Further Investigation

Author(s): Jonathan Roper / Language(s): English / Issue: 85/2022

Review of: Simon Franklin. The Russian Graphosphere, 1450–1850. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 428 pp.

Agricultural Collectivization and Trauma

North West Bulgaria and Bessarabia in Comparison

Author(s): Yana Yancheva / Language(s): English / Issue: 23/2022

This study is based on the comparison of the results of an ethnographic research on the process of socialist agricultural collectivization in Bulgaria and among the so-called Bulgarians and Gagauzes from Bessarabia in Southern Moldova and Southern Ukraine. I focus on the problems of peasant’s affection to land and property during the process of collectivization and their resistance to join the co-operative farms and kolkhozes. I problematize the traumatic experiencing of collectivization and analyze the emotions that were driving and affecting people. The analysis relies on the biographical approach and on the study of memory work.

Allakäigu kiirtee? 65. Kreutzwaldi päevad, Medica XIV

Author(s): Katre Kikas / Language(s): Estonian / Issue: 82/2022

An overview of the international hybrid-form conference by Katre Kikas.

Ambivalent Emotions

Acceptance and Rejection during Fieldwork in Greek Macedonia

Author(s): Paraskevas Potiropoulos / Language(s): English / Issue: 23/2022

The paper considers the ambivalent situations of acceptance and rejection of the researcher during fieldwork in Greek Macedonia. It focuses on both the researcher’s and the interlocutors’ positionalities, as well as their impact on this relationship as a crucial part of the research process. The paper discusses how the management of these positionalities and the emerging emotions enable the understanding, interpretation and representation of the local identity in the liminal place of borders as an interplay between locality, ethnicity and national identity. Furthermore, it concerns the various dimensions of doing anthropology domistically, as part of the core anthropological methodology. The emotional dynamics between the researcher and the interlocutors have questioned the notions of the insider and the outsider; alterity and strangeness and have revealed the multiple dimensions of anthropology at home. Ultimately, it concerns the function of the emotions in a sensitive ethnography in order to overcome the cultural barriers and the othering process.

AN ALBANIAN HISTORICAL BALLAD AND THE PARALLEL EXISTENCE IN PERFORMANCE

Author(s): Arbnora Dushi / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

In Albanian-language folk tradition, The Ballad of Halit Gashi is categorized as historical because of its central figure and the historical event that it presents. The event occurred during the Ottoman occupation in the Balkan region, but the song itself has come down to us and continues to be actively performanced. This song is part of the folk repertoire, accompanied with vernacular stringed instruments such as çiftelia. But at the same time it has a public life in mass culture, performed as a genre of urban music. Both versions, the folk and the urban, continue to exist in parallel and represent different social and cultural dimensions that echo the different social and cultural communities of Albanian-speaking society in Kosovo and Albania. Is it the theme of the song, the text, sensitivity of the theme, music, singer, or the taste of the public that continues to keep The Ballad of Halit Gashi alive? Why does this song continue to have two parallel performance traditions: the folk and the pop? What conditions led to a modern version in the urban style? Parallel existence of both types signifies coexistence of tradition and modernity in Albanian-speaking society. While comparing versions of the song and their characteristic elements, we will examine the social and cultural of society, drawing on the work of Sadri Fetiu, Gene Bluestein, Marjetka Golež, Rory Archer, Mathew Gelbart, and others, and with the help of social anthropology, we will try to be able to find these answers.

ANDREAS RECKWITZ, DAS ENDE DER ILLUSION. POLITIK, ÖKONOMIE UND KULTUR IN DER SPÄTMODERNE

Author(s): Tihomir Cipek / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 01/2022

Review of: Tihomir Cipek - Andreas Reckwitz, Das Ende der Illusion. Politik, Ökonomie und Kultur in der Spätmoderne Suhrkamp, Berlin, 2019., 305 str.

Anna Czajka, Gerardo Cunico, Elisabetta Colagrossi (a cura di), Cento anni di filosofia e di cultura polacca

Author(s): Fiorella Bassan / Language(s): Italian / Issue: 12/2021

Review of: Anna Czajka, Gerardo Cunico, Elisabetta Colagrossi (a cura di), Cento anni di filosofia e di cultura polacca, Mimesis, Milano‑Udine 2020, pp. 346.

Anne Kimliğine Kuramsal Bir Bakış (2000-2020)

Author(s): Özlem Kale / Language(s): Turkish / Issue: 1/2022

It has been determined twenty seven stories and novels titled with 'mother' in Turkish literature between 2000 and 2020. These works are thematically classified and those selected by stratified sampling were analysed with psychoanalysis or logotherapy method. Some specific outcomes are achieved with psychoanalysis of the mother characters in these works. In the majority of the works, it is represented as if motherhood and individual existence can not be all together. In small number of the stories, the women are criticized for not participating in social life and being housewives despite being educated. In the works highlighting the harms of gender discrimination, it is underlined that women should be first treated as "person" instead of "spouse and mother". Given the big effect of literature on public opinion, it is obvious that this should be emphasized in more works in order to make the right woman perspective become widespread. The woman has the ability to provide the continuation of the generation by nature. However, motherhood is not a genetic specification of woman but a social structure. The societies are adopted with the rule of the child needing a mother for living. As the economical production values the child, the motherhood is valued in the society and the ideal motherhood is shaped in these conditions. Our work will be eye-opening in terms of emphasizing the importance of this ideal by mass communication and literature too.

Anthony Bak Buccitelli. City of Neighborhoods: Memory, Folklore, and Ethnic Place in Boston

Author(s): Nona Shahnazaryan / Language(s): Russian / Issue: 3/2021

Review of: Anthony Bak Buccitelli. "City of Neighborhoods": Memory, Folklore, and Ethnic Place in Boston. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2016. 237 pp. ISBN 9780299307103.

ANTROPOLOGIJA PROSTORA U KONTEKSTU ISTRAŽIVANJA FENOMENA „PRODUŽENE MLADOSTI“

Author(s): Katarina Mitrović / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 1/2021

U ovom radu se, iz antropološke perspektive, preispituje uticaj kulturnih predstava na fenomen „produžene mladosti“, pri čemu se posebno analiziraju kulturne predstave o prostoru. Ukazujući na narative o gradu, kraju i sobama mladih ljudi koji žive sa roditeljima, rad se fokusira na značenja koja ispitanici pridaju prostorima i životnim aranžmanima u kojima se sami nalaze. Takođe, rad ukazuje na životne aranžmane „drugih“ i percipirane alternative. Cilj rada je da prikaže kako se ispitanici odnose prema urbanoj topografiji, pre svega prema prostorima koje smatraju „svojima“ u smislu prebivališta, te kako predstave o prostorima utiču na fenomen „produžene mladosti“. Preispitujući narative o izborima mladih ljudi iz Beograda, rad ukazuje na kulturne predstave koje modeluju njihova razmišljanja o osamostaljenju i selidbi iz porodičnog doma. U radu su korišćeni rezultati terenskog istraživanja sprovedenog u Beogradu od avgusta 2019. do novembra 2020. godine među mladima i njihovim roditeljima.

Apariţia Fecioarei Maria de la Seuca, în contextul interferenţelor religioase şi entice.

Author(s): Peti Lehel / Language(s): English,Romanian

Situated on the border of Latin and Orthodox Christianity, in a region where the infrastructural and the economical possibilities were limited, the Romanian village Seuca became an internationally known place for pilgrimage due to a blind Gypsy women's public visions about Virgin Mary in the first years of the new millennium. The author presents both the history of the ethnical and confessional co-existence in the village and the economical and social problems which affected the whole community. Then, the attitudes towards the apparition of the different denominations will be highlighted by presenting also the way the seer attempts to question the different denominational opinions. The legitimating strategies of a gypsy woman influenced very much the aspects of Virgin Mary vision from Seuca.

Archaeology across the ocean Interview with Professor Ashley Dumas - University of West Alabama

Author(s): Vasile Diaconu / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2021

Interview with Professor Ashley Dumas by Vasile Diaconu.

Arteterapia w pracy oligofrenopedagoga

Author(s): Agnieszka Gorgól / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

Oligophrenopedagogy who daily deal with working with people with intellectual disabilities in varying degrees, are looking for an even wider range of methods and techniques that will help them in the therapeutic work. Increasingly, in the circle of their interest in art therapy appears as the art of communication tools gives disabled people in an atmosphere of affirming individuality, originality. In art, there are no solutions only right, success is guaranteed.

Bauman’da Sosyal Eşitsizlik Meselesi

Author(s): Hıdır Önür / Language(s): Turkish / Issue: 01/2022

Social inequalities, which have increased with the globalization process, show significant differences from previous periods. The deepening of inequalities, their self-producing nature and the expansion of their sphere of influence are at the forefront of these differences. This is one of the important reasons why social inequalities have become a subject of interest for many social scientists, especially sociologists. Bauman also included the subject of social inequality in his works. In this study, it is aimed to reveal the different aspects of Bauman's approach to social inequality. For this purpose, Bauman's works on the subject were examined and his views on social inequality were tried to be understood. At the end of the study, it was concluded that; Bauman based his views on social inequality on the criticism of neoliberalism, global forces eroded the social character of the state, politics and power were separated from each other and individuals became lonely.

Bibliografie cu studiile şi reprezentările despre romii din România – cu accentul pe perioada 1990–2007

Author(s): László Fosztó / Language(s): Romanian

The bibliography is the first product of a documentary research in the field of studies of Roma communities, being a collection of data on documents and analyzes on public, social, educational policies, etc. from the European space, with a strong focus on Central and Eastern Europe, South-East Europe. The research aims at producing an annotated bibliography and as complete as possible in the field. The collection of bibliographic data is addressed to researchers in social sciences interested in Roma issues and interethnic relations, but it can also serve as a tool for orientation of persons and institutions active in community development or those engaged in improving the situation of Roma in Romania and the East-Europe. The bibliography is the first product of a documentary research in the field of studies of Roma communities, being a collection of data on documents and analyzes on public, social, educational policies, etc. from the European space, with a strong focus on Central and Eastern Europe, South-East Europe. The research aims at producing an annotated bibliography and as complete as possible in the field. The collection of bibliographic data is addressed to researchers in social sciences interested in Roma issues and interethnic relations, but it can also serve as a tool for orientation of persons and institutions active in community development or those engaged in improving the situation of Roma in Romania and the East- Europe.

BOTIM ME VLERË MBI SHKENCËRIMIN E PËRDITSHMËRISË

Author(s): Bubulinë Syla / Language(s): Albanian / Issue: 51/2021

Review of: Billy Ehn, Orvar Löfgren dhe Richard Wilk, “Exploring Everyday Life. Strategies for Ethnography and Cultural Analysis” (“Eksplorimi i jetës së përditshme. Strategjitë për Etnografinë dhe Analizën kulturore”), botoi: Rowman & Littlefield në Lenham, Boulder, New York, London, 2016, 153 f.