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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

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Sport and nationalism in the Republic of North Macedonia

Vasiliki P. Neofotistos

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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Militarization via Education

A 1945 Primer from Socialist Macedonia

Darko Leitner-Stojanov

The first postwar Macedonian 1 reading primer originated as an initiative of the partisan liberation movement in the last stage of the war in the summer of 1944. As the war in the region slowly drew to an end and the number of free territories

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On Institutional Pluralization and the Political Genealogies of Post-Yugoslav Islam

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

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Teaching about the Holocaust in Albania, Kosovo, and North Macedonia

A Comparative Analysis

Esilda Luku

National Differences The people and governments of Albania, Kosovo, and North Macedonia experienced the Holocaust in different ways. Albanian leaders, during Italian and German occupation, refused to implement anti-Jewish policies and

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Confessional Anthropology

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.

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Life among anthropologists in Greek Macedonia*

Georgios Agelopoulos

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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.

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Waiting for Macedonia. Identity in a changing world by Thiessen, Ilká

CHRISTOS KARAGIANNIDIS

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The risk of war: everyday sociality in the Republic of Macedonia by Neofotistos, Vasiliki P.

Ilka Thiessen