Sport and nationalism in the formerly called Republic of Macedonia In the late summer of 2011, a mood of exuberance gripped the Republic of North Macedonia (called, until very recently, the Republic of Macedonia), a country that emerged as an
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A Ritual Demystified
The Work of Anti-wonder among Sufi Reformists and Traditionalists in a Macedonian Roma Neighborhood
Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic
In the period between the summer of 2007 and the summer of 2010, I worked with dervishes, members of the Rifai and Sadi Sufi orders that form a vestige of the Ottoman heritage in the now independent nation-state of North Macedonia. Although not
In Religion and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2019
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 30–43 (14 total)
Jeremy F. Walton and Piro Rexhepi
specific successor nation-states: Kosovo, Macedonia, Croatia, and Slovenia. We have chosen this constellation of post-Yugoslav states strategically. 2 In general, treatments of Islam in the western Balkans privilege Bosnia, and Sarajevo in particular
In Religion and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2019
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 151–167 (17 total)
Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic
Drawing on my experience of a Muslim version of exorcism in urban Macedonia, this article continues a methodological discussion of the implications of being an atheist anthropologist when researching religion, a situation known as 'methodological atheism'. Methodological atheism is often linked to the problem of suspending one's intellectual disregard of people's religions as delusions. This article will argue instead that there are barriers to participation in religious rituals that are not covered by questions of disbelief. The notion of 'dispositional atheism' is discussed against the backdrop of the anxieties, uncertainties, and inhibitions experienced by an atheist anthropologist caught up in a moment of religious intensity.
In Social Analysis
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2015
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 114–134 (21 total)
Militarization via Education
A 1945 Primer from Socialist Macedonia
Darko Leitner-Stojanov
This article examines the textual and visual content of the first postwar primer in socialist Yugoslav Macedonia in order to understand the messages that it contains relating to techniques of militarization. After outlining the historical context in which this primer was developed, with reference to teachers’ memories and archival sources, the article analyzes the role of teaching materials in connection with the experience of the Second World War and the politics of the new communist state. This content analysis identifies six militaristic messages and values communicated to the pupils, who are addressed as future soldiers.
In Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2019
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 35–52 (18 total)
In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2003
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 249–263 (14 total)
Between Ordinary Pain and Extraordinary Knowledge
The Seer Vanga in the Everyday Life of Bulgarians during Socialism (1960s-1970s)
Galia Valtchinova
This article focuses on a little-known aspect of everyday life in socialist Bulgaria: the act of consulting a clairvoyant for health issues, thereby dealing with the broader process of medicalisation of healing. It is grounded on files from consultations with the renowned Bulgarian seer, prophetess and healer baba Vanga, which were collected between 1966 and 1974. These highly specifi c historical sources allow me to analyse late twentieth-century ideas and notions of health and disease, of pain and suffering, and thus to access social realities, cultural practices and representations of healing under socialism. By scrutinising the categories used in these records, the article delineates the relationship between the seer-healer, her patients, and the state institutions involved in the regulation of this process.
In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
- Published (Print):
- 01 Feb 2009
- Article Type:
- Book Review
- Pages:
- 139–140 (1 total)
Ilka Thiessen
In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
- Published (Print):
- 01 May 2014
- Article Type:
- Book Review
- Pages:
- 253–255 (2 total)
In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
- Published (Print):
- 01 Nov 2014
- Article Type:
- Book Review
- Pages:
- 495–496 (1 total)