Stavovi građana centralnog dela Srbije prema uticaju doseljenika na tradiciju i kulturu njihove lokalne zajednice

Author(s): Milica Z. Vesković Anđelković,Mirjana V. Bobić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 2/2015

There has been an increasing number of immigrants arriving to Serbia from various places ever since the end of the last century. It is primarily a forced displaced population from war affected territories in the 1990s who have still been living in Serbia even two decades after completion of the conflict and the relative normalization of relations. Furthermore, the number of asylum seekers and irregular migrants has also enormously increased. Since demographic forecasts and experiences of other former socialistic countries show that migration transition towards immigration is to be expected in the coming decades, especially with the formal EU membership, it seems there is a need for greater visibilisation of this phenomenon in order to be adequately prepared to face these challenges. The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of the geopolitical position of Serbia and lay down the long-term prospects regarding immigration as well as to shed light on the attitudes of Serbian citizens towards immigrants, especially when it comes to their influence on the local culture, customs and everyday life. The data presented and analysed were collected by field survey research carried out by the Institute for Sociological Research of the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade in 2013. Besides analysing attitudes of the local population concerning the influence of refugees, the authors also examine their opinion on the foreigners’ impact on culture and everyday life in local communities.

KULTURNI IDENTITET BOSNE I HERCEGOVINE

Author(s): Ivan Lovrenović / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 1/2015

Through its entire history, Bosnia and Herzegovina has stood in a peripheral position in relation to the great cultural and civilisational centres of East and West. It has received their influences, but has also created its own socio-cultural field in which these influences are mutually interwoven and reshaped. Discontinuous political history, many migrations in various directions, coexistence of different systems of civilisation and religion have made Bosnia and Herzegovina an unusual social structure - composite and integral at the same time. The traditional image of the cultural identity of BiH is characterised by a prominent duality between the so called high and folk culture. The sphere of high culture is marked by the isolation of the three cultural entities; much different from that, the folk culture is an area where relations and practices of mutuality are established between people from all etno-confessional cultural circles. This makes the cultural identity and heritage of Bosnia and Herzegovina ambivalent and dialectical: they are both a “sum” and a “product”; they have their clearly differentiated nacio-cultural traditions, but interference also exists, i.e. their mutual tradition. The fundamental mark of BH cultural identity resides, then in its civilisational interwoveness: in the concurrency of one mutual and three separate traditions. This multiplicity is today demonstrated in the form of a sharp fragmentation, while the disparate perceptions of land, history or culture influence formulating political goals a lot. A political and social framework is needed in order for the productive interaction between mutual and separate to be re-established. In it all elements of the structure could come to light in a non-conflictual manner. BiH today is faced with these questions more erratically than ever in its recent history. The problem is old, but the answers have to be new, because the historical situation is such.

KULTURNO-IDENTITETSKE ODREDNICE BOSANSKOHERCEGOVAČKOG DRUŠTVENOG KONTEKSTA

Author(s): Vlado Kovačević / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 1/2015

The paper deals with an important theme of national and religious relations in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the processes of religious nationalization and politicizing in current globalization processes. This paper focuses on the understanding of national ideology, which interprets the world according to its ethnicity and the process of politicizing religions and religionization of politics. Referring to the American sociologist Manuel Castells, the paper warns that new global networks “empower former social patterns”, which are related to national and religious content. In the paper we start from the thesis that finding new models for social communication in the society of Bosnia and Herzegovina cannot be an attempt of a new establishment of life and country monitoring, in both the nationalist ideology and in the ideology of consumer´s culture, life styles, and hybrid-transnational cultures that change identities. We have found in the works of one of the most significant sociologists of religion in the South-Slavic area Esad Ćimić the encouragement for the cultural and identity determinants of the relations between the national and the religious in the social context of Bosnia and Herzegovina.At the same time, this paper affirms the human dimension of openness between the relation of the national and religious in Bosnia and Herzegovina, developing a basic level of civilisation which is capable of accepting, justifying and managing the standpoints that are adopted as part of the spiritual, intellectual and moral heritage. This heritage is more spiritual, free and less caused by the ideological concept of a contemporary society. The heritage of Bosnian and Herzegovinian society as a living part of history, the bridge between the present and the future is a sign of a social and spiritual continuity. Without it, we would be stuck in a situation that could have negative consequences on human life concerning contemporary modern ideologies.

ETNOPOLITIKA U DOBA NJEZINOG „GRAĐANSKOG PREVLADAVANJA“

Author(s): Ugo Vlaisavljević / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 1/2015

If there is indeed a national issue in post-Dayton Bosnia and Herzegovina, then it is the Croatian issue. Already with the Dayton Agreement that issue has been changed to a state issue with Bosniaks and Serbs: their main national political interest is a final national statehood. For Bosniaks it is Bosnia and Herzegovina, whereas for Serbs it is the Republic of Srpska, as their nation-state. Since the dominant Bosniak national politics is focused on strengthening the state as a whole, the national in that politics is intertwined with the civil. That is why it seems that their national issue does not exist anymore and that there is only the issue of the statehood and civil political participation. In the dominant Serbian politics the national refers only to the statehood of exclusively Serbian entity, so that the national issue is indeed the state issue, but also national. If we see it as a national issue, Croatian issue is then an issue of constitutionality and sovereignty of the nation, of their collective rights. It is raised by the fact that Croats are not constitutive in the Federation, let alone in the Republic of Srpska. That is why Croatian national politics focuses on statutory changes, but that is how it is directly confronted with the Bosniak national politics, because the latter wants to escape the chaos of collective rights in this way. We can assume that Croats, being a minority, do not have their national issue solved. Serbs and Bosniaks do not put up their national issue qua national, in the areas where they are majority – in the two entities. In that case is Croatian entity the only solution? Or is it a delusion of the proponents of the collective rights politics?

Molisan cuisine (names of dishes) as an example of multiculturalism and multilingualism

Author(s): Adrianna Słabińska / Language(s): English Issue: 06/2015

Today Croats can be found living in many parts of the world. The process of Slavic migrations started in the 7th. Diasporas can be found in Austria, Slovakia, Romania, Czech Republic (Moravia and nowadays Prague), Serbia, Italy, even across the oceans in the USA, South America, RSA and Australia. The Croatian minority in Molise is the smallest Croatian minority in the world. Croatian is spoken there by about 2000 to 2400 people in three isolated mountain commu¬nities. They settled in villages, Kruč, Mundimitr and Filić possibly between the 14th and 15th century. Several Turkish invasions took place during this period, so Croats were forced to hide from the Sultan’s armies and they found refuge on the Apennine Peninsula. The country of Croatia, occupied with its battle against the infidels, has forgotten about its fellow countrymen, who had been living in the region of Molis, for a long time. In every day Croatian speech one can hear multiple loan-words. A particular problem can occur when writing some names of dishes which have been passed down but orally only. Molisan-Croatian cuisine and culinary names are part of Croatian cuisine that was created during the time of the Croatian Diaspora.

Райна Кацарова: слънчевата дама на българската етномузикология и етнохореология

Author(s): Lozanka Peicheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2016

Raina Katsarova’s work is of an intrinsic value to the establishing and the development of Bulgarian ethnomusicology and ethnochoreology. She was a renowned Bulgarian researcher in the 1920s, but also through the 1980s, an authoritative champion of collecting and preserving traditional lore in the form of tens of thousands of Bulgarian folk songs. This study systematises biographical data of Raina Katsarova’s life, integrating various voices in one story and offering a general rethinking of her personality and activities. The events and the facts interpreted in this statement have been selected from various in terms of their size, genre and content source material: a variety of published sources (Raina Katsarova’s publications; other publications related to her life, personality and career; interviews with her; Raina Katsarova’s memories), archive material (fieldwork notebooks, diaries, photos, letters, etc.), talks with her nearest and dearest. Biographical resear​ch method was applied as a rewarding scientific strategy and a tool of representing the fluid dynamics of life, of providing an insight into her figure and work and of the unique historical significance of Raina Katsarova to the domains of ethnomusicology and ethnochoreology. The systematic arranging of the selected facts and materials is grouped in the following thematic lines: 1). A timeline of her life in a chronological narrative of facts and events, stages and processes; 2) A brief overview of her major studies and achievements; 3). The essence of her fieldwork; 4) Her contribution to the creation of an ethnomusicological environment at the National Ethnographic Museum and BAS.

Защо смятат чехите във Войводово за немци?

Author(s): Marek Jakoubek / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2015

The text represents a contribution to the study of Vojvodovo, the Czech village in Bulgaria. The author attempts to answer in his analysis the following question: why so many Vojvodovo Czech Protestants chose as their marriage partners among the inhabitants of the nearby village of Bardarski Geran, both Banat Bulgarians (Paulicians) and Banat Swabians. In both villages religion was perhaps the most important organizational principle, religious endogamy being one of its main rules. As a result of that it might be expected not of find intermarriages between Vojvodovo and Bardarski geran, but the opposite, however, was the truth. The author shows that the reason, because of which the members of the two communities felt a kind of mutual affinity, was culture as both groups shared many cultural traits. One of these cultural traits was deep and genuine religiosity, or, better to say, belief. Thus, though at the first sight it is religiosity (seen as the creed) that seems to prevent any closer contacts between the two communities, it is religiosity (seen as belief) that stands behind the surprising and unexpected number of marriages that took place between the members of the two local communities

Милена Шушулова Павлова: „Музика и публики. Нови концепции за отвореност“

Author(s): Elisaveta Valchinova-Chendova,Todor Petev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2016

The book deals with topical contemporary musical practices and processes of musical communication. The fundamental to the art of music problem of communication is commented on. Music is communication and in this light, actual processes and contemporary musical and cultural practices in the field of the so-called ‘classical’ or ‘art’ music are treated. Drawing on serious literature, related directly or indirectly to the subject matter, the author formulates and considers in all their bearings several significant issues pertaining to the digital breakthrough, the role of the social media, public interest, analysis of audiences, etc., as social and cultural phenomena of enormous psychological effect, shaping new practices and audiences. Contemporary music education and that of young audiences are highlighted. The sociological survey conducted by the author and her analysis of the results is central to the study. The text is dialogical, intended for various readerships, which is yet another advantage to this book. Apart from the viewpoint of the musicologist, we provide the opinion of Prof. Dr Todor Petev, a renowned Bulgarian sociologist, the doyen of mass communications studies (1944–14 October 2015). In his opinion, the analysis of good cases and the innovative music educational endeavours (al fresco grand concerts in public areas in Europe) is the book’s strong side. Another fresh thematic line is that of the young audiences (the analyses of the survey of students, Ch. 10). It is gratifying to see that the author leaves the ending open to interpretation by readers, enabling them to continuously provide an infinite amount of new examples.

Филтриране на народното. Народна музика и идеология в Чехословакия през 50-те години на ХХ век

Author(s): Matěj Kratochvíl / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2015

In 1950s Czechoslovakia, traditional folk music was officially presented as the most important resource of national musical identity. Folk- or folk-inspired music was almost omnipresent. Although this intensity was waned in the following decades, the role of the folk music as a symbol remained strong until the end of the communist rule in 1989. While the ideology of communism used folk music as its tool, it also influenced the way this music was collected, researched and presented. The paper presents examples from two closely intertwined areas documenting these issues: folk music research and folk music revival.

‘One Day in Slovak, Another Day in Bulgarian’: Aspects of the Familial Upbringing of Children of Bulgarian-Mixed Origin

Author(s): Tanya Matanova / Language(s): English Issue: Special/2016

This paper addresses the specific situations faced by children of interethnic families relating to the ethnocultural, linguistic, and religious upbringing by their parents. The study focuses on persons born into Bulgarian-Russian, Bulgarian-Ukrainian, Bulgarian-Austrian, Bulgarian-Slovak, and Bulgarian-German families which reside in either Bulgaria or other European countries. An individual’s ethnocultural education is considered a part of the process of enculturation and socialization that occurs in the first few years of his or her life. In interethnic families, there are three cultural models that parents use to transmit their ethnic backgrounds to their descendants: the ‘one-sided arrangement’, ‘alternative arrangement’, and ‘creative adjustment’. The linguistic education includes the different means chosen by parents for transmitting their language competence to their offspring. The discussion of religious upbringing is based on data from people raised with two cultures and two festivity systems, and their family practices regarding religious holiday celebrations.

Migration and Identity: Historical, Cultural and Linguistic Dimensions of Mobility in the Balkans. Edited by Petko Hristov. Sofia: Paradigma, 2012

Author(s): Mira Markova / Language(s): English Issue: Special/2016

Културните измерения на визуалното

Author(s): Chavdar Popov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2001

Киното в прединдустриалните общества: Балканите в междувоенния период

Author(s): Karl Kaser / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2015

The article gives a rough overview about the development of cinema in the Balkan countries in the interwar period which was characterized by a low level of economy. Especially, the countries lacked industrial infrastructure which was a precondition for a flourishing cinema life from its very beginning. Therefore, cinema played only a marginal role in the agrarian Balkan countries. It was practically confined to the urban space. The European cinema market was dominated by international US-American and German film producers. In the Balkans a domestic film production could hardly emerge. The introduction of the talkie deteriorated conditions for domestic film pro¬duction because of the increasing production costs. Cinema could only become a mass phenomenon after the period of scrutiny when industrialization enabled mass consumption, also of films, in the 1950s and 1960s.

Заслужаващият родителство гражданин: вложение и въздаване

Author(s): Ina Dimitrova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 44/2/2015

The aim of this article is to illuminate and explore one core set of frames, constructed and mobilized by the respective activist organizations, around the issues of in-fertility and assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) in Bulgaria. It argues that these frames are organized predominantly around the notion of “deservedness” of parenthood or, in other words, through the present and future investments of these parents (wannabe or actual) in the common societal and national enterprise. Since they have numerous resources to invest, they are citizens, deserving parenthood. In this representation, we clearly see how the individual struggle with one biological characteristic and the suffering it brings are interpreted in an economic regime of exchange, functioning in the same time as a normative order of parenthood and citizenship.

Институционализирането на позицията на лекаря хигиенист в България от Освобождението до Втората световна война

Author(s): Veronika Dimitrova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 44/2/2015

This paper presents the research results of a part from my dissertation „Health, Disease and Hygiene: Towards Social Construction of the Citizen Body in the Interwar Period”. In the dissertation, I conducted a study of institutionalization of hygiene through law. The focus of the article is the difficult process of institutionalizing hygienist-doctors in Bulgaria from 1878 to 1939. The final form of institutionalization is shaped by the biopolitical project of the interwar period.

Книги 2015 г.

Author(s): Emiliya Voleva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 31/2015

Selected bibliography in the field of Bulgarian Studies published in the current year.

Периодика 2015 г.

Author(s): Emiliya Voleva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 31/2015

Content of the main Bulgarian scientific journals for the current year in linguistics, literature, history, folklore, ethnography, archeology and art studies

Война на термините или нови стратегии? За сборника: TÖTÖSY de ZEPETNEK, Steven, and Tutun MUKHERJEE (Ed.). Companion to Comparative Literature, World Literatures, and Comparative Cultural Studies. New Delhi, Cambridge University Press India Pvt.

Author(s): Roumiana L. Stantcheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2015

About: Steven TÖTÖSY de ZEPETNEK and Tutun MUKHERJEE (Ed.) Companion to Comparative Literature, World Literatures, and Comparative Cultural Studies. New Delhi, Cambridge University Press India Pvt. Ltd., 2013.

Книги 2014 г.

Author(s): Emiliya Voleva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 28/2014

Selected bibliography in the field of Bulgarian Studies published in the current year

Prolínání náboženské a sekulární perspektivy v rámci chorvatského feministického hnutí na příkladu práva na potrat

Author(s): Ludmila Böhmová / Language(s): Czech Issue: 27/2025

This study examines the phenomenon of rave culture in its epicentre, Berlin, and confronts it with the Czech scene, which I have focused on as an insider in previous dance-anthropological research. In writing this study, I applied Jan Mukařovský’s aesthetic concept of function, norm, and value to the collected data. Mukařovský’s concept provides a relevant framework for exploring the role of aesthetics in the broader sociocultural context of rave culture, particularly in the context of forming communal identity, value sharing, and reflection on sociocultural influences. The purpose of this paper is to understand how aesthetics and the knowledge of subcultural symbols, codes, skills, values, and ideas, which can be described as subcultural capital, serve to preserve the ethos of rave culture and to maintain important values, including the creation of safe spaces. The rave scene in Berlin differs significantly from the Czech scene in many ways. First, it differs in terms of door policy, dimension, intensity, and state support. Clubs in Berlin are run as cultural institutions that have a major influence on shaping the local cultural and social space.