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Conflict between organised supporters and the leadership of the Croatian Football Federation considerably determines the political and social aspects of football in contemporary Croatia. Our analysis of this phenomenon employs Albert O. Hirschman's dichotomy between horizontal and vertical social conflict: horizontal social conflict is of the ''either us or them'' type, and is particularly characterised by emotions and violence, making it less suitable for compromise; vertical conflicts are divisible and more defined by a rational approach, so they can be overcome by democratic procedures. Analysis shows that conflict between supporters and the football establishment displays features of both types, although it tends more towards the horizontal model due to the unwillingness of the opposing parties to reach a compromise, as they are burdened by emotions and violence (supporters) and use manipulation (football establishment officials).
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When the Croatian national team won the silver medal at the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia, this was not only a great sporting achievement, but also one of huge political significance to the entire nation. The significance of this event to the Croatian people was clearly made apparent through the parade organized in Zagreb upon the national team’s return from Russia, as well as the media coverage of the team’s success.This paper deals with the discursive construction of Croatian players in various media, where they are portrayed as national heroes. It also deals with the more specific discursive construction of the national team’s coach, Zlatko Dalić, who has celebrity status within the public sphere. Players’ patriotic capital appears to have been far more interesting to the media than their deeds on the pitch. Zlatko Dalić, on the other hand, has outgrown his role as football coach due to his broad public engagement and new work arrangements.Using an analysis of media and public discourse between mid-2018 and the end of 2019, this paper will also attempt to clarify the mediatization and celebritization processes in Croatia’s sports culture. The interpretation of how professional work in football can transform into work in terms of celebrity culture with the aid of cultural intermediaries will emphasize the impact of the social and political context in Croatia.
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The aim of this paper is to provide a better understanding of how the practices of state and city institutions, whose duty is to ensure that FC Dinamo Zagreb operates in accordance with national laws, affect the behavior of supporters. Besides that, it checks hypotheses that parts of fans aggressive behavior are structurally caused, and that in activist practices of fans, there is also a potential for the democratization of society. As supporter groups Bad Blue Boys, Together for Dinamo and We Are Dinamo persistently ask state and city institutions to observe the law, they can be seen as actors in the democratization of society, and close processes like unselective law enforcing and fights against corruption and discrimination.
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From 2016 to 2018, we conducted ethnographic research on young members of the ultras group White Stones in Varaždin. We analysed the social activism of this group as related to the ‘AMF’ club NK Varteks in order to affirm how members of White Stones view their club as opposed to similar examples in Europe, as well as to determine whether this group of youth are stigmatised. As opposed to the European context, opposition to the commercialisation of football is present implicitly in their case, while opposition to crime and corruption are the key causes of this group’s social activism. They feel as if they belong to the 'AMF' movement, and stigmatisation is partially present.
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The paper discusses the phenomenon of child autonomy from the perspective of educators' personal epistemologies and power relations in the adult-child interaction in the practices of institutional education in Montenegro. The construct of child autonomy is approached from the standpoint of critical-constructivist theory and the self-determination theory, as a socio-cultural product shaped by ethnopedagogies and personal epistemologies of educators. The main goal of the ethnographic study conducted in three preschool educational institutions in Montenegro was to explore the epistemological theories of educators through the analysis of institutional educational practices, given that "the ways of thinking about childhood fuse with institutionalized practices" (Prout & James, 2005, p. 22). We conclude about the existence of an objectivist epistemological theory of educators and the dominance of normative power relations in educator-child interactions, and discuss a special type of epistemological "over-power". The comparability with the results of similar research in the region is stated, and it points to a possible explanatory connection between collectivist culture and the controlling motivational style and authoritarianism in education.
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This paper presents a short episode from the history of ethnology during the interwar period (1918-1941) related to an attempt to found a professional association of Yugoslav ethnologists, which would have been a forerunner to the Ethnological Society of Yugoslavia, which was to be founded later in 1957. Based on an analysis of Milovan Gavazzi's correspondence with Serbian ethnologist Milenko Filipović, this topic will be approached from the perspective of intellectual history. On this note, work to establish an ethnological society will be viewed as an indicator of the intellectual involvement of both Gavazzi and Filipović during the interwar period.
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Il lavoro problematizza la questione della sopravvivenza della comunità croato-molisana nel Sud Italia. Dagli anni Sessanta del ventesimo secolo la popolazione è emigrata dai piccoli centri a causa dell’accelerato processo di industrializzazione. La grande emigrazione è iniziata negli anni Cinquanta in Australia, nel Nord e nel Sud America. Durante gli anni Sessanta e Settanta è continuata l’emigrazione interna come quella verso i Paesi europei. I giovani si sono spostati per l’istruzione e gli adulti in cerca di lavoro, mentre nelle zone rurali lo stile di vita tradizionale veniva abbandonato. Nei processi di spostamento e depopolazione è stato minacciato il dialetto che, come tratto distintivo elementare, nella comunità era portatore dei valori culturali e tradizionali. Oggi, nelle condizioni di vita attuali, quando culture e lingue minoritarie assumono un ruolo significativo nei processi di integrazione europei, si impone la questione dello sviluppo di un modello universale per la salvaguardia delle stesse culture e lingue. Sull’esempio dei croati molisani nel lavoro vengono presentate delle buone pratiche di sostenibilità di lingua, cultura e tradizione in una comunità di espatriati. Si tratta di una proposta adattabile anche ad altre comunità con lo scopo di preservarne l’identità.
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The article examines different interpretations of "post-socialist/post-communist nostalgia" by comparing them with interpretations of "nostalgic feelings and practices" in Western Europe and the United States. Likewise, it compares statements about the past and present of work and employment that were recorded by researchers in Western Europe and the United States with those collected by TRANSWORK project researchers through extensive field research in Croatia. On the basis of this comparison, it suggests that a scientific interest in "nostalgia" in "Eastern European" countries – that is commonly interpreted as a desire to understand unexpected disappointment in life "after socialism" or, in just a few of the relevant scholarly articles, as an expression of a post-imperial symptom that uses nostalgia to Orientalize the European East – could also be seen as an effort in defending the neoliberal regime (of labor).
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This paper analyses the importance of soundscape and some of the themes that dominated the workers strike at the Uljanik shipyard in Pula during late August 2018, which was the last organised attempt to continue production at the Pula shipyard. During the process of recording this soundscape and insisting on the creation of content that was community-oriented, Radio Rojc turned out to be an irreplaceable station. Through a series of recordings from the field during the strike, radio shows, interviews, but also radio drama, that community radio became a place of advocating preservation of production in a specific language that was not present in other media.
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The article examines how texts that accumulate and transmit dominant social ideas about motherhood are created through the oral tradition. This research is based on the personal stories of roughly 500 women about their personal experiences of pregnancy and childbirth, recorded using the narrative interview method. Natal narratives are viewed as a sign of culture from the semiotic perspective. The study uses a series of anthropological methods to interpret women's pregnancy experiences. It is shown that modern Ukrainian women’s stories about the pregnancy experience use a number of stereotypical motifs based on the oral narrative tradition. The most common are the motif of pregnancy as a chronotope of paradise and carnival motifs in describing the pregnant woman’s bodily experience.
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Over the last fifty years, the proportion of extra-marital births has increased significantly in all European countries. In this respect, Croatia falls in the group of countries with a low percentage of extra-marital births, albeit with significant regional differences. The objective of this paper is to analyse extra-marital birth trends on the larger Croatian islands over a period of almost fifty years (1970-2017). The focus of our research was the island of Korčula (especially the western part – the towns of Vela Luka and Blato), which shows significantly higher extra-marital birth rates than the other islands during the observed period. In addition to data from the Croatian Bureau of Statistics regarding birth rates in rural areas, information from 19th-century birth registers was also used to explain the reasons Korčula’s distinctiveness in terms of extra-marital births.
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Review of: - Jasna Čapo: "Dva doma: hrvatska radna migracija u Njemačku kao transnacionalni fenomen" - Lada Čale Feldman, Lidija Dujić, Maša Grdešić, Renata Jambrešić Kirin, Anita Dremel i Nataša Medved, ur.: "Kamen na cesti: granice, opresija i imperativ solidarnosti - Valentina Gulin Zrnić i Nevena Škrbić Alempijević: "Grad kao susret. Etnografije zagrebačkih trgova" - Orlanda Obad i Petar Bagarić, ur.: "Devedesete. Kratki rezovi" - Klementina Batina: "Aspekti ženskog autorstva u ranoj hrvatskoj etnologiji i folkloristici" - Vilko Endstrasser: "Mali oblici: promišljanje žanra" - Natka Badurina, Una Bauer, Jelena Marković, ur.: "Naracije straha" - Lada Čale Feldman, Anita Dremel, Lidija Dujić, Maša Grdešić, Renata Jambrešić Kirin, ur.: "Plameni inkvizitori: feminizam i kultura straha"
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In 1996, Appadurai argued that imagination is an essential element in the creation of cross-border political forms. Electronic media, for example, establishes links across national boundaries, linking those who move and those who stay. In his argument, these diasporic public spheres were examples of post-national political worlds and revealed the erosion of the nation-state in the face of globalisation and modernity. In this paper,I draw inspiration on this concept of diasporic public sphere but to show how these imaginaries are intimately tied to forms of group making and emplacement in several contexts. This argument is based on an ethnographic research about the creation of a transnational federation of Bangladeshi associations –the All European Bangladeshi Association (AEBA) –in the past decade, its main objectives and activities. Through the analysis of an AEBA event that took place in Lisbon, I want to show the productive dialectic between diasporic imaginaries, group formation and emplacement processes between Portugal and Bangladesh.
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The diaspora of Albanians living in Ukraine is a vivid example of the preservation of the language and traditional culture for five centuries being in isolation from origin tradition and experiencing various stages of self-consciousness and ethnicity. After the crucial geopolitical events of the end of 2013 – the beginning of 2014 in Ukraine we state a new interest for Albanian language and culture among the Albanians of Ukraine. The colossal splash of ethnic self-consciousness is supported at various levels. On the one hand – because of the efforts of rural enthusiasts, school teachers, and local public figures. On the other hand – in 2018 and 2019 the Albanian village Karakurt in Odessa region was visited by the Minister of State for Diaspora and representatives of the National Agency of Diaspora from Albania, which resulted as a real path to the “homeland” for representatives of the diaspora, but at the same time – as an expression of symbolic support for diaspora’s new ethnic feelings. This gave a new impuls for the communication between the Albanians of Ukraine and the Albanians of the Balkans. Social media and especially Facebook became a real “window to Albania” and to Albanian diasporas abroad. Different events covering diaspora’s life are represented in several webcommunities created by Albanian ethnic leaders, but mostly there is information about the entire “Albanian world” aiming at having feedback from Albanians abroad to support the desired ethnic “well-being”. This process is accompanied by a closer acquaintance with the dialect and culture of the Albanians of Ukraine, but on the other hand – with the active adoption of common Albanian national symbols by diaspora’s community (the national flag, the figure of Skanderbeg, etc.). The report will present a look at the current process of the ethnic revival of Albanians in Ukraine based on the authors’ field research in 2018–2019.
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Moving or displacement of population from one area to another area is a major factor in the transfer of speaking features in those areas where the individual, family, the group of speaking area are settled for housing or to live and work. Such area is Prizren and surroundings, where gravitating some ethnicities, but also some varieties of the same language, the reason that inspired us to research the state and description of the current Albanian speaking varieties in this area of Prizren. In our paper, which we plan to present in this seminar (38), we will try to explain the position and role of current Albanian in the face of its varieties, dealing with, treating the Albanian speaking varieties of Has area, Anadrini area, Opoja area, Luma and Vrini area, Podgur area, the Lumbardh Gorge area and city area of Prizren, areas that are the object of our research. Besides the separated treatment of varieties of Albanian due to areas, we will also treat Albanian variety which is specific and inclusive within the city area where we have different linguistic engagement. To realize this paper, we have realized ongoing conversation meetings with respondents of all above-mentioned areas, we have kept characteristic linguistic notes, and we recorded different conversations and created samples of the varieties of Albanian in the Prizren area with surroundings. The results of this paper will be relevant to this field of linguistics
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The Romanticism writer intended to empower the nation, through the monumentalization of the life of Arbwria and the recollection of epic deeds in the letters. They testified that literature canrevive the sense of dedication to the national values. Therefore, “growing” the nation (Schwytzer) for the romanticism writers was a dream and purpose, because it renewed the ethnic power and the greatness of memory for it. The Nation in Potentiafor the Romantic Letters came in the form of renewal, the purpose of which was to convey this common feeling and turn it into a great motive for action. Once again, the inseperable relationship between the letters and collective consciousness of identity is restored. The paper deals exactly with the dream of the Romanticists to see themselves in the ideal dimension, a dreamwhich has led the history to slipping into the uncertain foundations of the legends, giving humanity mythical truths as a historical transcendence. Our aim is to prove that for romantics the poiesis (creation) is the bearer of the national spirit. Born under the light of enlighten mentand renewal of the idea for the nation, Romanticism is also transformed into engaged intellectual and patriotic activity (Krasniqi), which transforms the echo of the centuries into a means of witnessing. But the tools it uses are rarely those of folklore. For this purpose, the literary work of the most representative authors: from De Rada to Fishta, will be treated also from the point of view of “the echoes carried by the depths of the centuries” (A. M. Tisse).
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The study is devoted to the description different domiciliary healing practices with improvised means and the analysis of cases when medical treatment is sought from sorceresses that work in the Arnaut community in South Russia; the ethnographic material is compared with the traditions of Albanian and Bulgarian folk medicine. The research includes a wide scope of data collected by means of participant observation, several interviews with sorceresses, and texts of verbal spells. Maintenance of self-treatment practices and popularity of wise women are analyzed through the conception of limited resources, in the case of Arnauts in South Russia the village community lacks professional medical care, technical equipment of medical stations, mobility and money. Field work studies in Rostov on Don region are organized by Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) of the Russian Academy of Sciences and St. Petersburg State University in 2015–2018. The data are collected in villages Margaritovo, Chumbur-Kosa etc. The digital and material archive of the expeditions is registrated at the Kunstkamera, St. Petersburg.
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In order to be able to contextualize and understand social worlds, anthropologists pay close attention. We observe how individuals and communities relate to each other and to their ideas. We study the intimate and subjective, as well as the large-scale cosmologies by which people make themselves and the world. Our participatory methods and reflective analysis document the complex, intricate, patterned, and also random aspects of people’s reasoning and actions. These activities, on anthropology’s part, supposedly offer not only critical descriptions of the present (on its historical trajectories), but possible intimations of a society’s future. Anthropological analysis, in other words, not only describes but also anticipates. This position paper focuses on the notions of anticipation, predictability, and possibility in anthropology. It asks what methodological and theoretical assumptions are built into our ways of making predictions about our field sites. It invites the reader to consider the effects certain anticipatory practices have for the people and phenomena we study as well as for the discipline. Centrally, the paper proposes different ways of attending to visions that anticipate the future. By reflecting on my ethnographic and analytical journeys in Serbia, I attempt to explain why I currently make so much of questions of predictability and possibility in both the field and the discipline. My desire is to open up a discussion on the value of cultivating attention to what seems to emerge on the side of predictable.
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Da bi mogli kontekstualizirati i razumjeti društvene svjetove, antropolozi pomno promatraju. Promatramo kako se pojedinci i zajednice odnose jedni prema drugima i prema svojim idejama. Proučavamo intimno i subjektivno, kao i kozmologije velikih razmjera pomoću kojih ljudi ostvaruju sebe i svijet. Naše participativne metode i reflektivne analize dokumentiraju kompleksne, zamršene, uobličene, ali i nasumične aspekte ljudskog razmišljanja i djelovanja. U antropologiji takve aktivnosti nude ne samo kritičke opise sadašnjosti (na njihovim povijesnim putanjama) već i moguće nagovještaje budućnosti nekog društva. Drugim riječima, antropološka analiza ne samo da opisuje nego i predviđa. Ovaj rad razmatra ideje predviđanja, procjenjivanja i mogućnosti u antropologiji. Propituje koje su metodološke i teorijske pretpostavke ugrađene u antropološke načine predviđanja, odnosno opisa i posljedične analize naših terena. Istražuje kakve učinke imaju prakse anticipacije, kako na ljude i fenomene koje proučavamo tako i na disciplinu. U središtu rada su prijedlozi različitih načina pristupanja vizijama koje predviđaju budućnost. Reflektirajući o svojim etnografskim i analitičkim putovanjima po Srbiji, nastojim pojasniti zašto sam trenutačno posvećena pitanjima predvidljivosti i mogućnosti i na terenu i u disciplini. Želja mi je potaknuti raspravu o vrijednosti pažnje usmjerene na ono što predvidljivošću ne možemo obuhvatiti.
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