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.

Alternativne umetničke prakse između moći države i granica slobode

Author(s): Jelena S. Petković / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 22/2021

Starting from Theodore Adorno’s point of view that the sociability of art is shown through its anti-social character, the paper deals with a sociological analysis of alternative artistic practices and their social reach and boundaries. Associated with a very specific social context, with a clearly established deviation not only from the mainstream of the official, elite art (artistic formalism) but also from the dominant culture and prevailing social values, alternative artistic practices are considered in the context of critical cultural counter-public, which is positioned between the formal and the symbolic powers of the state, on the one hand, and the personal / creative and social freedom of the artist and recipients, on the other hand. In the first part of the paper, we are presented with a general review of the transformations as regards the spheres of artistic creation, reception, and evaluation, which started establishing themselves within Western societies as of the beginning of 20th century, as well as with questioning their most important social functions. Following the existing research and using secondary data sources, the paper continues with an analysis of the underground music scene and lifestyles of young people in Western societies, as well as of those that emerged under the influence of the spread of Western popular culture and art in authoritarian regimes of some Muslim countries in the Middle East, North Africa, and Southeast Asia. Although still sporadic, rather marginalized and regime-controlled, these alternative artistic practices contribute to trans-cultural communication and creative and value synergy, gradually undermining rigid social frameworks and belief systems within different societies (Western and Arab-Islamic) but also between them.

Am Rand der Ränder von Karl-Markus Gauß’ Schreiben: Italien

Author(s): Iginia Barretta / Language(s): German Issue: 1-2/2020

While reading Karl-Markus Gauß’ literary works one learns to see Europe in a different light. His depiction of the continent draws a different cartography of it, where border-territories, border-knowledge and the peripherical become central, and vice-versa. Among Gauß’ preferred peripheries a specific area stands out as the centre of his narrative: Southeast Europe. Central Europe instead, otherwise conventionally considered as the continent’s geographical, political, cultural and power core, occurs only as a contra point to this. There is a country, however, which, although is not a part of Gauß’ narrated Southeast, frequently appears in his works: Italy. By looking at its different representations in selected writings of the author, this article aims to investigate why and how Italy emerges on Gauß’ otherwise southeast-centred personal map. While on the one hand, for example, the author problematizes rather concealed episodes of Italy’s fascist past or criticizes the regionalism of the Lega Nord, on the other hand, he casts light on unknown border-crossing facts of Italy’s history, culture and geography by narrating mostly unknown Italian intellectuals, places and minorities. In this way, Gauß’ depiction of Italy presents an ambiguous, complex, transboundary, and eventually unexpected, unknown country. It may be exactly because of these aspects that Italy takes a favoured place at the edges of Gauß’ border-writing.

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.

An Experienced Ethnologist’s Thoughts on Digitalization, Open Access, and Open Data as New Research Assets

Author(s): Anders Gustavsson / Language(s): English Issue: 86/2022

During the last two years of Covid pandemic we have seen the issues related to digitalization, Open Access, and Open Data (meaning open access to research results and research data) become more salient. Scientists have been unable to access archives and libraries in person, or to meet colleagues and students in physical meetings in the form of seminars, conferences or congresses. Distance has become the key word. Digital contacts have become the norm that shapes the scientific working day. In this subjectively oriented article, I intend to describe and comment on the new situation scientists have to face. These comments are based on my own background as a scientist since the 1970s. Scientists need to recognize the new opportunities that are offered by the new digital tools. This became particularly important in the conditions of the sudden pandemic outbreak in the early 2020s. What can we, scientists, learn from this development?

ANALELE BUCOVINEI

Frequency: 2 issues / Country: Romania

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.

Antropologas su kino kamera: tarp judančio vaizdo ir teksto

Author(s): Narius Kairys / Language(s): Lithuanian Issue: 109/2021

Ethnographic films have been produced along with fiction films since the beginning of cinema in the nineteenth century. For a very long-time anthropologists have been sceptical about the scientific rigidity and objectivity of visual inquiries, especially ethnographic films. Instead they regarded anthropological research as exclusively linguistic. Moreover, afraid to discredit their scientific authority, anthropologists who used movie cameras in their work tried to evade anything that could be considered as art in their films. The phenomenon that treats anthropology and film as fundamentally incompatible disciplines is called, as suggested by anthropologist Lucien Taylor, iconophobia. In my paper I argue that the possible way out of iconophobia could be a different approach to ethnographic film’s aesthetical and ontological aspects.

Antropologia culturală/socială în oglinda unei „slabe” epistemologii cu etnologia și sociologia

Author(s): Sebastian Ștefănucă / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 35/2021

There is no unanimous accord regarding the epistemological background of cultural and social anthropology. This fact hampers the relation between anthropology and other sciences of man, as ethnology and sociology. By way of a “weak” epistemology, it is to be discovered that the anthropologist makes his researches in an alien culture, using a methodology of long-term fieldwork, and the ethnologist/ sociologist in their own culture. A weak epistemology takes experience and subjectivity into account. An anthropology at home based on this epistemology is also possible, if the anthropologist strictly uses the instruments of anthropology. Many times, studies that are sociological, psychological, ethnological etc. are confused to be anthropological in Romania and in entire Balkan zone. Adopting the previous epistemological perspectives may be a good point of departure for a true professionalization and institutionalization of cultural and social anthropology in Romania and in the Balkans.

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.

Apritējis gads Latviešu folkloras krātuves Autobiogrāfiju krājumam

Author(s): Elvīra Žvarte / Language(s): Latvian Issue: 39/2019

Rakstīti dzīvesstāsti, atmiņas, dienasgrāmatas un citi autobiogrāfiski vēstījumi un to elementi Latviešu folkloras krātuvē (LFK) līdz ar folkloras materiāliem ir klātesoši jau kopš tās darbības sākuma. Dace Bula, Sanita Reinsone, Māra Vīksna, Toms Ķencis, Elīna Gailīte un citi pētnieki savā zinātniskajā darbā izmantojuši gan folkloristu redzeslokā nonākušo, dažādos laikos rakstīto un arhīvā noglabāto autobiogrāfisko materiālu, gan pašu “noguldītāju” – folkloras vācēju – ekspedīciju dienasgrāmatas. Tomēr lielākoties Latvijā līdz šim rakstītie autobiogrāfiskie vēstījumi humanitāro un sociālo zinātņu pārstāvjiem kalpojuši kā sekundārs un papildinošs izziņas avots, ne galvenais pētniecisko interešu objekts. Ne tikai Latviešu folkloras krātuve, bet arī daudzas citas institūcijas – muzeji, bibliotēkas un novadpētniecības centri visā Latvijā –, kuri glabā nemateriālās kultūras mantojumu, savos krājumos līdzās citiem materiāliem uztur arī cilvēku pašu rakstītos dzīves dokumentējumus, taču liela daļa no tiem nav digitalizēti un līdz ar to nav tik vienkārši pieejami nedz pētniekiem, nedz citiem interesentiem.

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.

Archive/Counter-Archive: Activating Principles of Respect in Archival Policy Development

Author(s): Claudia Sicondolfo,Debbie Ebanks Schlums,Mariane Bourcheix-Laporte,Mary Elizabeth Luka,Raegan Swanson / Language(s): English Issue: 29(1)/2022

Archive/Counter-Archive (A/CA): Activating Canada's Moving Image Heritage is a seven-year research-creation project involving more than 100 collaborating artists, academics, and activists from across the country that reveals how Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) come into contact with vulnerable community-driven audiovisual archives, an important part of contemporary cultural heritage. This article examines the power dynamics embedded in A/CA as well as in current ICT infrastructure, legislation, and organizational policy and resources, to address two emergent challenges experienced by the network over a three-year period. The authors ask whether and in what ways A/CA was able to oppose the extractive power dynamics embedded within the current cultural heritage preservation and ICT management systems through operational models and ICT tools that incorporate creative approaches. Locating this project where community-engaged research comes together with the study of digitization and platformization of cultural production and heritage, the authors used autoethnographic and feminist intersectional discourse analyses to examine the tensions and challenges embedded in the communities of practice that took shape over these three years. The first set of findings explores the organizational limits imposed on the network’s participants, including the lack of national and local resources for digitizing and sharing vulnerable and often marginalized media archives. This was addressed in the A/CA context by developing a flexible contracting approach for the digitization and use of the vulnerable media being digitized, as well as through the development of a national Action Plan. The second set of findings demonstrates how creative interventions in community-based partnerships and artist residencies affected the genesis of a Principles of Respect (PoR) Committee and related pragmatic in-the-field efforts to address some of the historically troubled relationships that large, official media archives have had with Indigenous and Black communities. The authors explore the ways in which creative workshops and artist residencies are mobilized within A/CA to help build a more respectful and reciprocal set of relations. Lastly, we examine the broader implications for intellectual property and content management as it is influenced by the current role of ICTs in relation to cultural heritage, suggesting some ways forward.

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.

Artysta zdradzony i zawiedziony. Portret Aleksandra Puszkina w Maskaradzie Jarosława Iwaszkiewicza

Author(s): Maria Jolanta Olszewska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 4/2021

Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz’s dramatic works, diversified in terms of theme and genre, by no means occupy a marginal place in his comprehensively perceived writing oeuvre. Three of Iwaszkiewicz’s plays, linked by the artist’s theme, deserve a special mention: Lato w Nohant, Maskarada and Wesele pana Balzaka. The subject of analysis in this article is the play “Masquerade”. That play focuses on the character of Alexander Pushkin and his complex relationship with the environment, which lead to the self-destruction of the poet, for whom the only salvation is death. In this play, Iwaszkiewicz connected the artistic theme with the question of subjectivity and identity.