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Institute for Balkan Studies has released the 39th issue of its annual BALCANICA
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Self-government in Serbia and Bulgaria 1878–1914
The book Local Self-government in Serbia and Bulgaria 1878–1914 by Miroslav Svirčević, jointly published by the Službeni Glasnik publishing house and the Institute for Balkan Studies, has been released in mid October. It is a comparative study that involves several disciplines in the areas of legal, political and historical sciences with the purpose of showing the different extents to which the two Balkan states followed the west-European models of local self-government in a turbulent period in European history, marked by the abrupt deterioration of the Ottoman Empire, the national awakening of the Balkan peoples under Ottoman rule and rivalries of the major European powers pursuing their particular interests. The book offers a lot of very useful data that shed light on an aspect of the modern legal and political history of Serbia and Bulgaria.
General Property Code for the Principality of Montenegro
The extensive book by Miloš D. Luković Bogišić’s Code–Preparation and Linguistic Shaping is devoted to the “General Property Code for the Principality of Montenegro” of 1888, drawn up by the distinguished 19th-century jurist Valtazar Bogišić and popularly known as Bogišić’s Code. The analytical focus of the book is on the terminological lexis and grammatical features of the Code, looked at in the context of the creation of the text of the Code. The whole process of drawing up the Code has been termed the preparation and linguistic shaping of the Code and, accordingly, the book is divided into two parts. It looks at the previous scholarly research into the Code, Bogišić’s life and career before his codifying mission from Russia to Montenegro, his research into customary law in Montenegro, theoretical debate surrounding the preparation of the Code, the process of formulating its provisions and discussing the draft, and Bogišić’s domestic and foreign collaborators in the process. In that way, the book provides an original contribution in the field of historical linguistics and legal historiography.
The Serbs of Bela Krajina: Language Ideology in the Process of Language Shift
“The Serbs of Bela Krajina: Language Ideology in the Process of Language Shift”, a monograph of Tanja Petrović recently published by the Institute for Balkan Studies, deals with the Serbs of Bela Krajina, one of the many local ethnolinguistic communities undergoing the process of language shift as a consequence of major changes in their way of life brought about by modernization and industrialization. It was written with the aim of pointing to the significance and implications of the process of language shift both in a particular social, historic, and geographical context (South-East Europe, the former Yugoslavia, Republic of Slovenia, Bela Krajina), and in relation to broader social processes.
The monograph attempts to look at the language ideology of the Serbs of Bela Krajina as part of a broader discursive universe, and to highlight ideological aspects common to the local community members and outside elites, as well as mechanisms through which ideological nodes constructed outside the community become adopted by its members and employed in redefining and negotiating relationships and roles inside the community. Those processes reveal the dynamics of social and linguistic changes and their interconnectedness, and show how deep the link is between the state/national and the local, between broader social processes and the ways in which local communities and their particular members rationalize, negotiate and justify their positions, roles and strategies.
Animal Sacrifice. The Transformation of a Ritual
The collection of studies Animal Sacrifice. The Transformation of a Ritual, published in Serbian, assembles the results of research on animal sacrifice which makes it a logical continuation of the volume Kurban in the Balkans,published in English in 2007 within the Special Editions series of the Institute for Balkan Studies, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. The studies in this collection are grouped in three parts according to the research methods employed: Historical Perspective (which also covers oral history: Stanoje Bojanin, Kurban before kurban. Animal sacrifice in the pre-Ottoman Balkans; Miloš Luković, Kurban at the top of Petrova Mountain, south Serbia); the anthropolinguistic perspective (Vladimir Bocev, Kurban among the Macedonians; Sanja Zlatanović, Five images of Roma kurban; Annemarie Sorescu-Marinković, St George’s Day lamb and/or gurban for health; Tanja Petrović, Kurban as transnational practice. Kurban among Muslims in Slovenia; Biljana Sikimić, Gurban roads in Serbia: memory and researcher’s construction; Svetlana Ćirković, Kurban for the deceased. Anthropolinguistic and cognitive linguistic analysis of temporal categories; Aleksandra Djurić-Milovanović, Gurban: between Ripanj and Bela Crkva; Smiljana Djordjević, Animal sacrifice in the posthumous customs of colonist Serbs in Omoljica) and the Perspective of Ethnolinguistic Geography (Anna A. Plotnikova, Ethnolinguistic geography of the Balkans: winter and summer sacrifice; Andrej N. Sobolev, On Balkan names for the sacrificial animal on St George’s Day). The collection includes completely new studies written specifically for this occasion, as well as partially or completely reshaped contributions to the volume Kurban in the Balkans; in most cases, the authors have added fresh linguistic observations as well as transcribed field conversations which could not find their place in the English version. These substantial modifications required a different structuring of the volume and ample reference to the previous collection of studies.
Great Britain and Serbia 1856–1862, a book of Ljubodrag P. Ristić recently published by the Institute for Balkan Studies, covers the period between the Treaty of Paris, where Serbia, an autonomous principality under Ottoman suzerainty, came under the protection of the Great Powers instead of Russia, and the conference at Kanlica ending the Turco-Serbian conflict over the Turkish bombardment of Belgrade in June 1862. In order to contain Russian influence in the Balkans and protect her interests in the eastern Mediterranean, Britain continued to favour the preservation of the Ottoman Empire. Her position entailed postponing a solution to the serious and knotty Eastern Question, of which a small but important part was the issue of Serbian national liberation.
Serbia’s rulers and politicians harboured no illusions that Britain would come to her rescue amidst the conflicting claims and interests of Austria and Russia, but they did hope that British diplomatic assessments could become less biased in Ottoman favour. Positively convinced that the Principality of Serbia was fully under St Petersburg’s control and that therefore any furtherance of its autonomy or improvement of the position of the Serbs in the Ottoman Empire could lead to another conflict among the Great Powers, the Foreign Office saw no reason for altering its Balkan policy or its attitude towards Serbia. At Kanlica Britain was willing to agree to a compromise between the principle of preserving the Ottoman Empire and the rights of peoples.
Kosovo: un conflit sans fin?
Dušan T. Bataković has published his fourth book in French, Kosovo: un conflit sans fin?, a monograph encompassing the past of Kosovo and Metohija from the middle ages to the status negotiations in 2006–2007. A historian above all, but also an eyewitness and a participant, Bataković provides a reliable in-depth account of the past of Serbia’s southern province (with new documentary sources for the period of Tito’s rule) as well as a detailed overview of UNMIK administration in the province (with emphasis on little known facts concerning the position of Serbs and other non-Albanians) and a brief summary of the status negotiations conducted under UN auspices in Vienna, in which he took part as member of Belgrade’s negotiation team.
Institute for Balkan Studies has released the 38th issue of its annual BALCANICA
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The Romance Balkans
The edited volume entitled The Romance Balkans results from a conference held in Belgrade in November 2006. With its focus thus formulated by members of the Commission on Balkan Linguistics of the International Committee of Slavists, the conference assembled Romance linguists and Balkanologists concerned with various aspects of the Romance languages in the Balkans. Notwithstanding the attribute “Romance” in the title and the use of English, French and German as meta-languages, a connection with Slavic studies remains the common thread running through almost all contributions. From the current synchronic perspective, the present-day Romance Balkans includes (Daco-) Romanian, which is spoken in Romania and Moldova, as well as Aromanian and Megleno-Romanian vernaculars spoken in the southern Balkans. The volume expands this Romance extent to a maximum in taking into account not only different insular Daco-Romanian dialects but also Ladino and contemporary contacts between Balkan and non-Balkan Romance languages. The volume makes no pretensions to provide a diachronic cross-section through the “Balkan Romance languages” in a systematic way, or to offer an overview of the current state of European Balkan linguistics in methodological terms. Nevertheless, it does include Balkania Romana, Orthodoxa, Islamica and Judaica.
The book forms part of a series of thematic volumes concerned with marginal, ethically challenging or urgent issues in a broadly understood Balkan linguistics (Hidden Minorities in the Balkans, Belgrade 2004; Bayash in the Balkans, Belgrade 2005; Refugee Kosovo, Kragujevac 2004; Life in the Enclave, Kragujevac 2005; Torac. Fieldwork Methodology, Novi Sad 2006; and Kurban in the Balkans, Belgrade 2007), all resulting from the project “Ethnic and social stratification in the Balkans” carried out by the Institute for Balkan Studies.
Slavic Folklore and Folklore
Slavic Folklore and Folklore Studies at the Turn of the Millennia is the collection of papers presented at the international conference held in Belgrade, Kraljevo and Mataruska Banja 3–6 October 2006. Organized by the Institute for Balkan Studies with support from the International Committee of Slavists Folklore Commission, the SASA Committee for Folk Literature, and the National Museum at Kraljevo, the Conference assembled eminent scholars from 11 Slavic countries, and welcomed Dr. Ichiro Ito in his capacity as member of the Slavic Folklore Commission.
The main objective of the Conference was to analyze the present state of folklore studies in each Slavic country and to evaluate major results in recording and studying national folklores. Another objective was to take a look at some current issues in folklore studies, such as substandard recording and various mystifications (leading to misinterpretations of not only folklore but also of the history of Slavic non-material cultures); the subject and scope of folklore studies today; the importance of regional folklore studies; the creation of electronic databases and searching techniques.
In keeping with the initial idea, the volume is structured into three parts. The first part contains 11 papers offering overviews and evaluations of major results achieved in folklore recording, collecting, studying and publishing in 9 Slavic countries. The second part assembles texts discussing current issues in Slavic folklore studies as perceived and explicated by their authors. The third part brings an extensive excerpt from the unpublished writings of Vojislav M. Jovanovic, a distinguished searcher for various forgeries of both Serbian and European folklores. This is an annotated bibliography of the collections of folk literature and individual journal contributions in which he detected unauthentic records.
This volume is an attempt to reconstruct the road system in the territory of Roman Dardania with its settlements, stations, posts, services etc. It draws upon heterogeneous and dispersed material, such as: Roman itineraries; carefully made notes by 16th–19th-century travellers with their inexhaustible wealth of diverse information; the archaeological picture on the ground; the ample relevant literature with its opposing views and controversies; and, to a lesser extent, medieval cartographic data, and local toponymy with its survivals from ancient times.
Bringing together all data, dilemmas and contradictions surrounding this complex topic, the book bases its perspective on responsible data analysis, meticulous search for barely visible clues and a broad coverage of information contained in the ample literature. The volume is furnished with a French summary.
The focus of the book is on the mythological representations of love on the funerary monuments from the Roman province of Upper Moesia. These funerary monuments are often luxurious, which indicates that they were commissioned by well-to-do citizens of the province, or more precisely of the city of Viminacium where most monuments have been found. The first part of the book looks at the role of Greek myth in Roman funerary art, formulating the theme of Myth and Love and the myths related to it. Myths are classified according to whether they depict the world of gods, the world of mortals, or an encounter between the two: thus three thematic sets are formulated (divine rape, love encounter, love in the world of heroes and heroine). These findings, as well as the cultural and anthropological aspects of the perception of myths are employed to look at the Upper Moesian monuments showing the rape of Europa flanked by the Dioscuri, the rape of Persephone, Amor and Psyche, the return of Alcestis, Helen and Menelaus etc. Much attention is devoted to the question of donors, and an answer is looked for in the surviving inscriptions and the iconography, but also in the material used for the monuments. The important question of craftsmen and local Upper Moesian workshops, those of Viminacium in particular, is also discussed. The book offers a catalogue of the reliefs with detailed descriptions and photographs, as well as a map showing findspots.
Epic Cities. A Lexicon by Mirjana Detelić, a new publication of the Institute for Balkan Studies
This book is the first attempt to form an idea of the number, type and distribution of cities in Serbo-Croatian oral decasyllabic epic. It contains 847 entries on cities (or, in linguistic terms – the same number of oikonyms) excerpted from the corpus. The corpus comprises the classical printed collections of epic poetry published – with the exception of the 18th-century Erlangen Manuscript – between the mid 19th century and the end of the first decade of the 20th century in the Serbo-Croatian speaking area, presently divided among four newly-formed states: Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro, whereby the decadent and substandard poetry of a later date is left outside the scope of scrutiny. A total of 1357 poems from 8 collections in 22 volumes are taken into account. Apart from a general bibliography and four indexes (I–Geographic names; II–Personal names; III–Names of peoples and states; IV–Concepts) at the end of the Lexicon, the book contains two appendices: 1. tabulated epic oikonym attribution; and 2. CD-ROM Cities in Christian and Muslim Oral Epic (Belgrade: Institute for Balkan Studies, SASA, 2004).
Finally, the book now offered to the readers is not a historical, geographical or geopolitical encyclopaedic gazetteer, but a study in anthropology and poetics extensively drawing on historical and geographical data gleaned from a number of specialized studies, all cited in the Bibliography.
The Institute for Balkan Studies has published an edited volume of European relevance, fully in English, Kosovo and Metohija. Living in the Enclave. The editor Dušan T. Bataković has shaped the volume around the themes that have been marking the life of the Serbs, Goranies and Roma in the province not only during the last nine years, but also during different periods in the past; under Ottoman rule or foreign occupation (First and Second World wars), living a life of confinement in enclaves emerges as one of the gloomy features both of the past and present of Kosovo and Metohija. The volume brings to light these complex realities, consciously ignored or unspoken in the West.
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Radivoje Mladenović Mirjana Menković Miloš Luković Dušan T. Bataković Appendix
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The eASSB Project presented in Budapest
Realizers of the Electronic Archive of Serbian Medieval Heritage (eASSB) project Veljko Gluščević and Žarko Vujošević were invited to take part in a conference discussing the possibilities of building an international network of archive materials digitization projects. (The conference, organized by the Vienna-based Monasterium-Konsortium, was held in Budapest on 26–28 November 2007). They submitted the paper “Das serbische Urkundenmaterial” (Vujošević) and presented the eASSB Project and its results shown on the website of the Institute for Balkan Studies (Gluščević). At the invitation of the conference organizers, the Institute has joined the Monasterium-Konsortium as a “working group” (Arbeitsgruppe), which will function as a content provider and present its own digitized material on the international web portal www.monasterium.net, as confirmed by a signed agreement.
The protocol from the plenary session of 27 November is enclosed in PDF format (in German).
The collection of studies Kurban in the Balkans (Belgrade 2007) is the result of the international cooperation between the Institute for Balkan Studies of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, and the Ethnographic Institute with Museum of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia. The volume gathers together a group of researchers from different branches of the humanities in an inter-disciplinary approach to post-modern anthropology, anthropological linguistics and the anthropology of folklore. The connecting thread of this joint work is personal experience of fieldwork in the modern-day Balkans, and the perception of tradition as a process rather than a state. The editors are, therefore, aware that this collection is a scholarly construct, an attempt to pin down insular practices of animal sacrifice, linked only by the fact that they take place in a common geographical location: the Balkans.
By reexamining the local (Balkan) knowledge of local (Balkan) occurrences, the collection Kurban in the Balkans becomes part of a series of editions published in the framework of the project “Ethnic and Social Stratification of the Balkans” by the Institute for Balkan Studies, which is dedicated to marginalised or urgent issues of anthropologically directed fieldwork: Hidden minorities in the Balkans, Belgrade 2004; The Bayash in the Balkans, Belgrade 2005; Refugee Kosovo, Kragujevac 2004; Life in the Enclave, Kragujevac 2005; Torac, Fieldwork Methodology, Novi Sad 2006.
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The Holy King. The Cult of St Stefan of Dečani by Smilja Marjanović-Dušanić, Professor at the Department of History, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, and a member of one of the Institute’s projects, is devoted to one of the most complex concepts of medieval west-European and Byzantine royal ideology, that of the holy king. Part One looks at the origin and evolution of the institution of royal sanctity in medieval Europe and offers an in-depth analysis of this phenomenon in medieval Serbia. Part Two is devoted to a particular cult—the cult of St Stefan of Dečani (king of Serbia 1321–31). It has been chosen for the key study of royal sanctity with the Serbs not only because Stefan of Dečani has been the second most favourite saint to Sts Sava and Simeon in official and popular piety, but also because his cult lends itself to a long-term approach. St Stefan’s cult has passed through all stages of development—from a dynastic saint, a new martyr and a historical hero to that of a national hero of the restored Serbian state in the nineteenth century—to become the most complete holy king cult in Serbian history. The study addresses the complex questions of shared public memory and of the birth of historical memory and its association with the phenomenon of holy places. Covering a long span of time from medieval times to the present, it interrogates the relationship between history and memory. The book is published jointly by the Institute for Balkan Studies and Clio.
The third volume of the Kosovo Trilogy by Dušan T. Bataković covers the key phenomena of the realities of Kosovo-Metohija from the end of the nineteenth century to the Vienna status negotiations 2005–2007 inclusive. Very well documented, based on the available and verified sources, the book considerably and with scholarly rigour contributes to our knowledge of Kosovo and Metohija. The volume is additionally enriched with a selection of authentic documents.
The Institute for Balkan Studies has recently brought out the English edition of the book of its member Čedomir Antić Neutrality as Independence: Great Britain, Serbiaand the Crimean War. The author of the preface, Professor Winfried Baumgart, an eminent historian of the Crimean War, has observed that this is the first monograph in a European language to give an account of Serbia’s participation in European politics on the eve and in the wake of this war. Antić’s book reinterprets the role of Great Britain and France in Serbia’s history in the 1850s and offers new sources for the study of the ideas of reforming Serbia and the Ottoman Empire. In this edition of his book Antić offers fresh data for the biography of the controversial Thomas Fonblanque, Great Britain’s diplomatic representative in Serbia for nearly twenty years.
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ARCHAEOLOGY. CLASSICALSTUDIES
Vladimir P. Petrović, Pre-Roman and Roman Dardania: Historical and Geographical Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . .7
Sanja Pilipović, Heroic Themes of the Trojan Cycle in Roman FuneraryArt: Example of a Relief from Pincum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25
ANTHROPOLOGY. LINGUISTICS
Tanja Petrović, Such Were the Times: Serbian Peasant Women Born in the 1920s and 1930s and the Stories of Their Lives . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Iskra Likomanova, “People of My Life” (Picture of Socialization) . . . . . . . . . .61
MEDIEVALSTUDIES
Smilja Marjanović-Dušanić, Patterns of Martyrial Sanctity in the RoyalIdeology of Medieval Serbia: Continuity and Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Boško Bojović, Mont Athos, les princes roumains, Jean Castriot et la Tour albanaise (Arbanaški pirg) dépendance de Chilandar�. . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . .81
Mirjana Tatić-Djurić, La Theotokos LYCNIA dans l’art et l’hymnologie 89
HISTORY
Ljubinka Trgovčević, The Enlightenment and the Beginnings of Modern Serbian Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .103
Miroslav Svirčević, The Establishment of Serbian Local Government in the Counties of Niš, Vranje, Toplica and Pirot Subsequent to the Serbo-Turkish Wars of 1876–1878 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Milan St. Protić, Sources of the Ideology of the Serbian Radical Movement 1881–1903 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Dušan T. Bataković, Nikola Pašić, les radicaux et la « Main noire » : Les défis à la démocratie parlementaire serbe 1903–1917 .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .143
Vojislav Pavlović, La France et le programme yougoslave du gouvernement serbe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Ana S. Trbovich, Nation-building under the Austro-Hungarian Sceptre: Croato-Serb Antagonism and Cooperation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Alexis Troude, Les relations franco-serbes au sein de l’Armée d’Orient 1915–1918 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Traian Sandu, Les relations roumano-serbes et la question du Banat durant la Première Guerre mondiale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Saša Mišić, Serbo-Albanian Bank 1925–1927 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
Jean-Paul Besse, L’éphémère Eglise orthodoxe croate��������et son prolongement bosniaque . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
Milan Ristović, L’insurrection de décembre à Athènes : Intervention britannique et réaction yougoslave (décembre 1944 – janvier 1945) . . . . .271
Gordon N. Bardos, The Balkans’ New Political Dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
Reviews
Georges Castellan: Histoire du peuple serbe, éd. Dušan T. Bataković . . . .305
Danica Popović: Branislav Todić & Milka Čanak-Medić, Manastir Dečani . .309
Aleksandra Davidov-Temerinski: New Jerusalems. The Translation of Sacred Spaces in Christian Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .313
Veljko Stanić: Gábor Ágoston, Guns for the Sultan. Military Power and the Weapons Industry in the Ottoman Empire . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .315
Biljana Sikimić: A Small Dialectological Atlas of the Balkan Languages 318
Annemarie Sorescu-Marinković: Development of Ethnic Structure in the Banat 1890–1992, eds. Thede Kahl & Peter Jordan . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . 323
Marija Vučković: Developing Cultural Identity in the Balkans: Convergence vs. Divergence, eds. Raymond Detrez & Pieter Plas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .325
Aleksandra Kolaković: John R. Lampe, Balkans into Southeastern Europe: A Century of War and Transition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
Miroslav Svirčević: Mark Mazower, The Balkans: From the End of Byzantium to the Present Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330
Miroslav Svirčević: Richard J. Crampton, The Balkans since the Second World War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .332
Miroslav Svirčević: Branimir Anzulovic, Heavenly Serbia: From Myth to Genocide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
The historian Čedomir Antić, a member of the Institute, has recently been honoured with the North American Society for Serbian Studies Annual Award for his biography of the British diplomat and friend of Serbia Sir Ralph Paget, published by the Institute for Balkan Studies under the title Sir Ralph Paget: A Diplomat in Serbia and prefaced by the British historian Nigel Braily.
Within the selected edition of works on Kosovo and Metohija by the historian Dušan T. Bataković, the renowned publishing house ČIGOJA has, following the collection of studies entitled Kosovo and Metohija in Serbo-Albanian Relations,brought out the newly-revised, second, edition of the monograph The Dečani Question, which explores the complex Serbo-Albanian relations in Old-Serbia, the position of the Serbian Church, and the role of Russia and Russian monks at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
The study White City: The Origin of Epic Formula and Slavic Toponym co-authored by Mirjana Detelic and Marija Ilic has recently been published by the Institute for Balkan Studies (Special editions No 93, 2006, 249 pages). The study offers a folkloristic and linguistic analysis of the syntagm white city as a topos occurring in Serbian, Croatian and Muslim epic poetry and also as one of the oldest Slavic toponyms. The analysis has led the authors to assume that only the toponym is common Slavic and proto-Slavic, whereas the epic formula is specifically South Slavic. They argue for the originally sacral meaning of this proto-Slavic syntagm which, with Slavic migrations and settlement in the south of Europe, became profane and turned into a mere epic topos.
At the end of 2006, the collection of papers in the Romanian language Torac – metodologia cercetării de teren (Torac – Fieldwork Methodology), series Fieldwork Notebooks, was published by the Romanian Society (Foundation) for Ethnography and Folklore of Vojvodina. This collection of papers is the result of team fieldwork researches, anthropologic and linguistic, conducted in 2004 and 2005 in Torac, Vojvodina.
The collection was edited by Annemarie Sorescu Marinković, Research Assistant at the Institute for Balkan Studies, Belgrade.
Summary:
1. Exercises of Ethnology. After the Field (Otilia Hedeşan, University of the West, Timişoara)
2. Torac via Clec: When Biography Surpasses Ethnography (Annemarie Sorescu Marinković, Institute for Balkan Studies, Belgrade)
3. From Torac to Clec: Minimal Field Information (Biljana Sikimić, Institute for Balkan Studies, Belgrade)
4. Remarks on the Way of Life and some Customs in Torac. A Parallel between Past and Present (Laura Spăriosu, Faculty of Philosophy, Novi Sad)
5. On Trust in the Researcher: a Bosnian in Toracu-Mic (Svetlana Ćirković, Institute for Balkan Studies, Belgrade)
