Ana Banić Grubišić

• PhD Ethnology and Anthropology
• Associate Professor at University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy

The central topic of the paper is the humoristic production during the COVID-19 pandemic. The chief focus is on the main representations of the eldest members of the society during this dramatic period, when they were declared to be the most endangered, but also the ones who endanger others by their vulnerability. The research was limited to the fi...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the articulation of cultural trauma of coming-of-age as depicted in the novels City of Pain and City of Sin by the young Romani author Meti Kamberi. The common feature of these two novels is that they both explore the traumatic childhood and coming –of-age experiences through the main protagonist’s point of view,...

The development of the Internet and digital technologies has influenced the ever- greater migrations of printed content to the digital sphere (blogs, online media, Internet portals, social networks), which has also brought with itself changes in readers’ habits and in the concept and format of texts as wells. Music press is no exception in that res...

Antropološko istraživanje – sprovedeno u periodu od 2020. do 2022. godine – dizajnirano je s ciljem da uputi u najvažnija pitanja koja se odnose na strukturalne preduslove za rad u starosti, ali i na motive trinaest sagovornika za preduzimanje poslovnih aktivnosti nakon penzionisanja. Na ovaj način bilo je moguće odgovoriti i na neka ključna pitanj...

Based on the several decades-old tradition of presenting jazz through festivals firstly in Yugoslavia, and consequently in Serbia, the Jazz in the Garden manifestation was founded in Belgrade in 2021. The name of the new festival apostrophises the location of the event - ?Jevremovac? Botanical Garden. With the anthropological analysis of this manif...

This paper offers an analysis of the 2021 Netflix mini-series The Chair, a dramedy whose authors sought to give an “authentic” depiction, but also a cultural critique, of the functioning of a contemporary US university and US higher education. The series includes four important elements of higher education – the institution of the university, its a...

This paper is part of ongoing research conducted by the authors which aims to map the turbotronic scene and provide an answer to the question of what music can reveal about the broader dynamic of sociocultural life in contemporary Serbia. The paper follows the paths of the anthropology of music, already well established in Serbian anthropology. It...

Predmet ovog rada je razmatranje savremene folklorne komunikacije na temu Kovid-19 pandemije u Srbiji. U radu su predstavljeni dominantni žanrovi folklora pandemije koji se putem kanala digitalne komunikacije stvaraju, modifikuju i prenose u domaćem kontekstu. Cilj rada je utvrđivanje lokalnih specifičnosti i sadržaja srpskog „koronalora”, kao i an...

This review paper provides an overview of the ten-year long anthropologi-cal research on the cultural identity of guest workers and their descendants as part of the projects implemented by the associates of the Department of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade and the SASA Institute of Ethno-graphy. The p...

This paper is the result of work on the project “A Study of Awareness and Preservation of Intangible Cultural Heritage Among Young People in Serbia and the Diaspora” carried out in 2019. In view of the UNESCO recommendations that young people should be educated about the importance of cultural heritage as they are the key population in the process...

From the perspective of the anthropology of migrations and literature, the paper analyzes The Taxi Driver of München, a novel with autobiographical elements by the Croatian author and gastarbeiter Romano Mrkić. After outlining the basic genre characteristics of "migrant literature" and the so-called gastarbeiter novel, the paper proceeds to analyze...

The subject of this paper is a thematic analysis of a bilingual collection of poems by Drago Trumbetaš entitled “Poems of guest-workers“ (“Gastarbeiter-Gedichte“). The poems in this collection were written during his stay in FR Germany from 1969 to 1980. Drago Trumbetaš (1937–2018) was a versatile Croatian self-taught artist and a member of the fir...

Predmet ovog rada čini etnografsko mapiranje začetaka nove alternativne scene u čijem jezgru leži turbo-folk. Alternativna scena, locirana pre svega u Beogradu, pomalja se u proteklih nekoliko godina kao kružok izvođača (Mangulica FM, Lenhart Tapes, Mega Denke, Gianni Druid, Bombe devedesetih i dr.) koji slobodno kombinuju turbo-folk s drugim muzič...

Ovaj rad predstavlja preliminarne rezultate etnografskog istraživanja savremenog muzičkog fenomena koji okuplja „autore sa srpske scene“ čije je stvaralaštvo zasnovano na kombinaciji novokomponovane narodne muzike i turbo-folka sa različitim alternativnim muzičkim žanrovima i stilovima. Istraživanje je sprovedeno uz pomoć tehnike polustrukturiranog...

In this paper, the authors follow the history of development of anthropology of tourism from the 1960s to the present. In addition to the distinct methodology (ethnographic field work), the essential aspect of anthropological study of tourism is an emphasis on the socio-cultural dimension of tourism. Within the anthropological research of tourism,...

In this paper, the authors follow the history of development of anthropology of tourism from the 1960s to the present. In addition to the distinct methodology (ethnographic field work), the essential aspect of anthropological study of tourism is an emphasis on the socio-cultural dimension of tourism. Within the anthropological research of tourism,...

The Serbian film Ring a Ring o' Roses (Ringeraja 2002) represents the data based on which the ideas and cultural notions about ethnology and anthropology in local context are analyzed. Aside from the analysis of the representation of ethnology as a profession and the context in which it appears, the paper considers the imagining of the character of...

The paper deals with ways of representing sexual relations in movies about the post-apocalypse. Different forms of sexual relations which occur in a postapocalyptic setting are considered with regard to two types of communities/ societies which emerge after the end of the world. These movies indicate how much the idea of an instinctual, natural, bi...

The paper deals with ways of representing love and amorous relationships in post-apocalyptic movies. In these movies, there is a dualism of romantic and partner love, and these two types of love are there to help build a new world, or rebuild the destroyed society. These images of love emphasize the importance of evolutionist theories for the centr...

Rad se bavi kulturnim predstavama o hrani i ishrani u filmovima na temu postapokalipse. Hrana/ishrana u ovim filmovima funkcioniše kao metafora uz pomoć koje se prikazuje buduća regresija ljudske civilizacije u pretpostavljene ranije stupnjeve razvoja. Hrana u ovim delima tako postaje moćan simbol, ona služi da se označi granica (ali predstavlja i...

The paper considers the relationship between tradition and tourism as exemplified by the cuisine on offer in so called "salaš tourism". Over the course of the last decade, farms in Vojvodina have become popular tourist destination and an attraction as a form of rural and cultural tourism. Farms which have been revitalized to meet the needs of touri...

Issue of foreign labour migrants in Serbia does not occupy very prominent place in Serbian governmental policies. These policies are mainly focused towards Serbian Diaspora and Serbian labour migrants working abroad. Conversely, national policies on foreigners in Serbia are mostly concentrated on suppression of illegal immigrants and inclusion and...

The paper deals with ways of representing love and amorous relationships in post-apocalyptic movies. In these movies, there is a dualism of romantic and partner love, and these two types of love are there to help build a new world, or rebuild the destroyed society. These images of love emphasize the importance of evolutionist theories for the centr...

This paper will examine the touristic travels along the most famous nonfunctional highway in the United States - the Route 66. This “iconic route” is represented as the “road to the heart of America”, “the American odyssey”, as a place which comprises the “good old American values” and builds its attractiveness as a tourist destination on the narra...

Na osnovu sprovedenih terenskih istraživanja u istočnoj i jugoistočnoj Srbiji (Kučevo i Knjaževac sa okolinom) u radu se ispituju životne priče gastarbajtera kao materijal važan za antropološko i folklorističko istraživanje njihovog iskustva, vrednosti i identiteta. Pojam „gastarbajter“ odnosio se na privremene migrante koji su služili kao radna is...

U radu se razmatra višeznačnost pojma gastarbajter na primeru ekonomskih emigranata koji pripadaju romskoj populaciji. U poslednjih pola veka do danas, pripadnici romske manjine u zapadno-evropske zemlje emigrirali su zbog više faktora (ekonomski, politički i društveni razlozi) i ne postoje zvanični podaci o tačnom broju Roma koji trajno ili privre...

This paper examines the phenomenon of Roma hip hop in Serbia, its origins and popularization through music workshops for Roma children organized by the non-governmental organization R-Point. The paper analyzes a supposedly liberatory cultural practice, and argues that its designing „from above“, through non-governmental agencies' projects whose dec...