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This paper deals with the hammam in the Smederevo fortress, erected by Firuz Agha, the head of the Sultan’s treasury, between 1485 and 1490. Using Ottoman sources, the authors are able to determine the time of construction, the method of work and the role that this public bath played for Smederevo’s inhabitants. The hammam was very important for the functioning of the great Firuz’s waqf, which included numerous buildings in the Balkans and Anatolia. Based on data on the waqf’s revenue, it may be concluded that until the mid-16th century the hammam in the Smederevo fortress was one of the most profitable facilities of its kind in the Ottoman Empire. Over a quarter of a century, Firuz, as the court agha and later as the sanjak-bey, constructed another three hammams in Tokat, Sivas and Sarajevo, which help us discern patterns and changes in the manner of construction. Based on this knowledge and information about the appearance and manner of functioning of the numerous hammams built in the second half of the 15th and the first half of the 16th century, the authors present the presumed disposition of the rooms of the public bath in the Smederevo fortress. In the female section, the rooms can be determined with great certainty, while three possible types, based on the shape and dimensions, are offered for the hot part of the male section of the hammam. [Project of the Serbian Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, Grant no. 177030: From Universal Empires to National States. Social and Political Changes in Serbia and the Balkans and Grant no. 177029: Medieval Serbian Lands (13-15th Centuries): Political, Economic, Social and Legal Processes]

The paper discusses data provided by a charter of the Hungarian estates, issued on March 13, 1450, which resulted from a litigation instituted by John Hunyadi against László Pataki, the familiaris of Serbian despot Đurađ Branković. According to the presented accusations, Despot Đurađ captured Hunyadi after the defeat on the Kosovo field in 1448, acting upon the persuasion of his wife, sons, „Michaelis vayvode Chelnek dicti de Uhad” and four of his Hungarian familiares. Based on this document and other known data on Mihailo Angelović, the author concludes that the aforementioned voivode Michael is no other than this Serbian nobleman of Byzantine origin. A noble title „de Uhad” shows that Mihailo Angelović had possessions in Hungary in 1450. This possession is most likely identical with the settlement Ohbd (Ohbt) near Ghilad in the Romanian Banat. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. 177029: Srednjovekovne srpske zemlje (13-15. vek): politički, privredni, društveni i pravni procesi]

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Translation as a form of communcation has a very long tradition and it appeared several thousand years B.C. In the period of nomadic tribes, in the Stone Age, different clan and tribal languages were created. This difference between languages became even greater in the Bronze Age. Therefore, translation appeared as the only solution for the communication outside one's own language community. Naturally, in that prehistoric and protohistoric period, there was only one kind of translation: oral translation. And the first literary translation appeared in the 4th century B.C. It is The Epic of Gilgamesh, a work of an unknown writer. Beginnings of translation in the Serbian-Slavic written literature date back from the time when two Slavic apostles, Cyril (827-869), called the Philosopher, and his brother Methodius (825- 885) translated The Bible and Greek liturgy into Old Church Slavonic, and the Serbs, copying these translations, later introduced into them features of their speech, from which the Serbian redaction of the Old Church Slavonic language was created, Serbo-Slavonic. However, it is believed that the first Serbian translator was a medieval writer Sava Nemanjić (1175-1235) who translated from Greek Evergetis Typikon (the book of regulations for church rituals and monastic life in Orthodox monasteries). This paper presents the history of translation among the Serbs, as well as a chronological series of translations from the French language into Serbian, as well as the Serbian translations from English, German, Italian and Russian translations of French literature till the mid-19th century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Description of the subject. Red clover is an important forage legume and a rich source of high quality forage for livestock feed. This study assesses a diverse red clover collection for agronomic value, forage quality and antioxidant activity in relation to status (cultivar vs natural population) and ploidy level (diploid or tetraploid) for the purpose of diversity study and for identification of potential heterotic groups and classification of accessions according to the results of analyses. Objectives. The aims of this research were to: i) explore agronomic traits, forage quality, and antioxidant activity in relation to status and ploidy level; ii) assess trait associations and the possibility of indirect selection; iii) cluster red clover accessions with regard to forage quality and antioxidant activity. Method. Red clover was represented by 46 accessions, the cultivars and natural populations of diploid (2n) and tetraploid (4n) ploidy levels from 17 countries, which were collected and preserved in the Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops in Novi Sad, Serbia. The following traits were determined from the two-year field trial at Rimski Šančevi, Serbia: plant height (PH), internodes number (IN), green mass yield (GMY), dry matter yield (DMY), crude protein (CP), acid detergent fiber (ADF), neutral detergent fiber (NDF), digestible dry matter (DDM), dry matter intake (DMI), relative feed value (RFV) and antioxidant activity. All accessions were characterized in the second cut of the second year of life when 20-25% of flowers appeared. Results. The cultivars had higher values for PH, IN, GMY, DMY, DDM, DMI, and RFV. The tetraploid accessions had higher values for IN, GMY, DMY, CP, NDF and DDM. The natural populations and diploid accessions had 39.9% and 21.9% smaller antioxidant capacity, respectively. The antioxidant capacity was positively associated with RFV, DDM, DMI, PH, IN, GMY and DMY, but negatively with ADF and NDF. Conclusions. The grouping of red clover accessions based on forage quality parameters and antioxidant activity was represented by five clusters. High-quality cultivars had a shorter length of internodes and a good leaf to stem ratio with a high leaf proportion.

This paper problematises the justification of ‘postist’ revisions of humanism. In the first part of the paper, a line of thought that persistently marks the self-perception of man is presented. It stretches from Plato, through Pico della Mirandola and Kant, all the way to existentialism and philosophical anthropology in the twentieth century. In it, man is understood as chronically deficient in their own ‘nature’ or ‘essence’, and his privileged status is built from this rootlessness. The second part of the paper is dedicated to the relationship of transhumanism and critical posthumanism to humanism. Transhumanism is found to harmoniously continue and/or radicalise the humanist project of self-creating and self-transcending man, while critical posthumanism advocates a rethinking and redescription of man in view of what are considered to have been the disastrous consequences of humanism: a transgression in relation to everything different from man by anthropomorphising it and anthropocentrically measuring it against himself. The concluding part of the paper detects a certain arbitrariness in the understanding of humanism by its critics, reminds that even within such a broadly understood humanism, critical moments have been inherited as its own content and corrective, and that announcements of radical cuts and ruptures with the humanistic tradition are perhaps redundant. It is also noted that something non-negligible has changed with the contemporary challenges of technoscience – artificial intelligence, informatics, robotics –but it is contested that this change in social history requires a cardinal rejection, change or neglect of the intellectual heritage that enables responses to it and/or a rational dispute about it. A synoptic overview of humanist landmarks and their post-humanist condemnations is suggested, which would respect the heritage of humanist thought and the right or even the obligation built into it of its critical review.

The theme of this paper is the relationship to „others“ – other civilizations and cultures in the history of Earth, and other species and different forms of life in science fiction. The analysis of Star Trek series and films shows that, despite considerable endeavor to adopt „multiculturalism“ as a principle, and despite a conscious effort to respect and celebrate diversity, „colonial narrative“ remains in force in the popular science fiction visions of the future. Fear and/or violence are typical reactions that (un)hiddenly repeats the pattern of our thinking of otherness and treatment of different ones whenever it comes to aliens, whether they are foreigners or extraterrestrials.

The main question of this article is why imagine other worlds. In addition to shedding light on the motivation, we also examine the imaginative processes, their resources and the associative arrangements available to imagination in the construction of new worlds. We see ‘other worlds’ as both utopian and as fantastic spaces, following the hypothesis that the space of fantasy is never entirely free. We place particular emphasis on the space and time of utopia, and on the aspect of the novelty. The paper is divided into four parts. The first takes into account the path to the other world, or the methodical problem of imagination. The second wants to portray the other world, or the limitations to imagining something entirely different and new. The third part inquires about the cost of utopian thinking: what is lost in the process, what is sacrificed to its flattening gestures? Finally, despite all these limitations, in the fourth part we consider the significance of utopian thought for social theory.

The direct approaches to measuring the shadow economy have not been used extensively until very recently. A relatively simple method has been developed (Talis J. Putninš and Arnis Sauka 2015) using an income approach to measuring GDP and exploiting survey data on unreported employee wages and the business income generated by enterprises, which was provided by owners/managers of such enterprises. This paper illustrates the advantages of this approach over indirect ones through applying it to two EU candidate countries. This is first done by measuring the size of the shadow economy and then by providing estimates of the factors which cause enterprises to engage in shadow economic activity. Estimates of these factors suggest a number of policy approaches that could reduce the size of the shadow economy in countries similar to the ones we have used here.

У првом делу рада аутор проблематизује потребу дефинисања жанра научне фантастике, излажући аргументе савремених теоретичара који су уверени у неуспех досадашњих покушаја да се то учини. Та настојања се потом представљају кроз ликове карактеристичних представника два приступа дефинисању научне фантастике: историјског и формалистичког. Налази се да историјски приступ не нуди конклузивно одређење тог жанра већ пре, напротив, безобално шири његове границе. У формалистичком приступу запажа се спор тумача који стављају нагласак на одредницу науке и оних који радије потенцирају фикцију приликом покушаја дистинктивног одређења научнофантастичног жанра. У завршном делу рада указује се на могућност помирења фантастике с науком сагледавањем научне фантастике као весника научних открића: научнофантастична пракса може се засновано интегрисати у науку и њену историју уколико се уклоне „сцијентистичка“ и „креативистичка“ предубеђења која томе стоје на путу. Закључак рада сугерише да то помирење није оправдано, интегрисање још мање, уколико укида антагонистичку, али продуктивну напетост научних факата и књижевне фикције.

Drawing on Bourdieu’s understanding of capital, the paper attempts to explain the dynamics of conversion between cultural and economic capital among experts. More specifically, the analysis focuses on the institutionalized type of cultural capital as the most important resource of this social group, which is also measurable, widespread and clearly differentiated and normatively accepted, along with the possibilities of its conversion to economic gain in four different social settings. The results uncover a significant statistical difference between the average amount of experts’ income per country, a minor presence of experts in the area of entrepreneurship, and a large gap between experts within the areas of health care, law, military and police, and those who come from the area of social sciences.

The paper discusses the role of teachers and school professional teams in prevention of digital violence in order to increase the safety of students while using the information and communication technology. The school as the center of the educational process can, with its continuous action, indicate the possible risks in the functioning and usage of information and communication technology, as well as other key factors in prevention of digital violent behavior and social intervention when violence occurs. The social reaction to digital violence implies the application of an active school education strategy that involves acquiring knowledge about the risks and risk behaviors and developing the responsibility of an individual when using digital technologies, then a strategy of action when an individual is exposed to some form of digital violence and sanctions for those who violate the rules. In recent years, scientists and experts have been involved in theoretical and empirical researches in the field of digital violence in order to gain knowledge and raise awareness about the dangers that threaten in the virtual environment. Such initiatives can significantly contribute to the intensification of the educational activities of the school (teachers and professional teams) by pointing to their indispensable role and importance in designing adequate preventive strategies for solving this significant social problem.

St. Sava frequently uses the Johannine Good Shepherd motif (Jn 10) in order to present a biblical framework for the presentation of his father’s life in the Life of St. Simeon. The Old Testament background of the Johannine motif (Ez 34) implies a political application of the Shepherd motif to a political ruler and this is exactly what St. Sava accomplishes when he depicts his father as Shepherd in the crucial moment of his political abdication (1196). In this manner St. Sava characterizes the whole political career of his father, in the very moment of his Farewell Speech, with the help of the Johannine Good Shepherd motif. If the political context of the reception of the Johannine Good Shepherd motif is dominant in Nemanja’s hagiography, still St. Sava transcends the strictly political framework of the reception of the Good Shepherd motif. He presents an expressionistic autobiographical description of the relationship with his father and parallels his father’s journey to Mount Athos to the Johannine Good Shepherd, who is searching for his Lost Son.

Half a century after the first migrant workers left to find labor in the countries of Western Europe comes the moment in which it is necessary to summarize and refocus the research into this phenomenon. The research effort has – in accordance with temporal distance and accessible documents – been joined by historians, on top of previously existing research conducted within the frameworks of demography, economy and sociology. The modest participation of anthropologists within studies of migrant workers up to the present has resulted in a scarcity of critical research questions and studies which would provide answers to them. Some issues were missed due to non-functional focusing on immigration and national minorities in neighboring countries, and can now only be studied within the context of historical anthropology. Still, it is necessary to define the directions which new research questions should take in order to make the transition from description to interpretation of phenomena stemming from the fact that over a million people from Serbia, over the last half century, have spent, or still spend a large portion of their lives working in Western European countries. This paper represents an attempt to formulate some of the possible paths contemporary anthropological research could take in the study of the semi centennial “temporary labor abroad” of Serbian citizens.

Based on fieldwork conducted in Eastern Serbia (Knjaževac and Ku!evo with surrounding regions), this paper analyzes the life stories of migrant workers as material crucial for anthropological and folkloristic research into experiences, values and attitudes of the members of a certain culture. The term "guest worker" (ser. gastarbajter, i.e. ger.gastarbeit) was used to designate temporary migrants who served as labor at the time of the reconstruction of Western Europe after World War II. A large number of migrant workers decided to stay in the host countries, and work migrations are still a common occurrence today. Based on the life stories of guest workers, in this paper we will attempt to map out the specific characteristics of different waves of migration. While all the waves of migration had a common cause – the desire for a better life and material stability – there were certain additional motives which depended on the political and socio-economic conditions in the home country. Furthermore, we are interested in the process of acculturation in different host countries, focusing on the differences in social policy regarding immigrants, the geographic distance from Serbia and the number of compatriots in the host country. Finally, we will address the narratives of guest workers who have returned, focusing on the reasons they decided to come back to their home country and the ways in which they settled down after their return.

The theme of this paper is the relationship to „others“ – other civilizations and cultures in the history of Earth, and other species and different forms of life in science fiction. The analysis of Star Trek series and films shows that, despite considerable endeavor to adopt „multiculturalism“ as a principle, and despite a conscious effort to respect and celebrate diversity, „colonial narrative“ remains in force in the popular science fiction visions of the future. Fear and/or violence are typical reactions that (un)hiddenly repeats the pattern of our thinking of otherness and treatment of different ones whenever it comes to aliens, whether they are foreigners or extraterrestrials.

The paper looks at the phenomenon of migrant workers who emigrated to Western European countries after World War II. The labor demands created by the economic reconstruction of these countries, most notably Great Britain, West Germany, France, Switzerland, the Benelux countries, Sweden and Austria, coupled with low birth rates and high death rates, made it necessary for them to hire immigrant workers. On the other hand, poor economic conditions, few employment opportunities and a yearning for a higher standard of living drove workers from Italy, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Yugoslavia, Greece, Ireland, Finland and North Africa to seek work abroad. These temporary migrant workers represent a link between their countries of origin and their host countries, and, as a group of people maintaining links with their native countries, they can also be considered their countries’ diaspora. However, considering the temporary nature of their residence abroad, it is questionable whether they actually are a diaspora. It is for this reason that the paper juxtaposes the phenomena of the diaspora and temporary migrant workers in order to analyze the question of whether, when and how these workers become a diaspora. In particular, it focuses on migrant workers from Yugoslavia, usually referred to as “gastarbajteri” (gastarbeiter), who in the 1960s and 1970s migrated mostly to West Germany, Austria, Australia, France and Switzerland, and on their political treatment by the Yugoslav state.

Review of a book by Nina Kulenović. The Social Ontology of the Film "Avatar." Anthropological Analysis. 2011. Belgrade: University of Belgrade - Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Ethnology and Anthropology

En 1604, un carismático sufí de Túnez encargó la traducción al turco otomano del texto de polémica titulado Tuḥfat al-Adīb fī al-radd ʿalā ahl al-ṣalīb (1420) de Abdallāh b. Abdallāh al-Tarjumān, con la intención de presentárselo al Sultán otomano Ahmed I. Poco después, este texto se convirtió en uno de los textos de polémica anti-Cristiana mejor conocidos y leídos en el mundo islámico y en Europa, a finales del siglo XIX. Este artículo estudia las circunstancias en que se realizó la traducción de la Tuḥfa del árabe al turco otomano, los actores involucrados en esa traducción, la narrativa de su trayectoria desde Túnez hasta Estambul, su recepción por el público letrado otomano y, finalmente, su impacto en el desarrollo del género de polémica otomana en las narrativas de conversión al Islam. En el apéndice de este artículo se incluye una transcripción y traducción de esa narrativa, que parece estar directamente influida por la Tuḥfa. Mediante el estudio de la trayectoria de un único texto perteneciente al género de la polémica religiosa, este artículo evita las discusiones académicas, tradicionalmente desconectadas entre sí porque estudian la historia moderna ibérica, norte africana y otomana de forma separada, demostrando así su íntima conexión en la época de polarización confesional (ss. XVI y XVII).

U tekstu se polazi od pitanja zbog čega se zamišljaju drugi svetovi. Pored motiva za zamišljanje, pažnja se posvećuje samom procesu zamišljanja, resursima i asocijativnim sklopovima koji su dostupni zamišljanju u izgradnji svetova koji se od našeg razlikuju. „Druge svetove“ određujemo i kao utopiju i kao prostor fantazije, rukovodeći se hipotezom da taj prostor nikada nije u potpunosti slobodan. Poseban naglasak stavljamo na prostor i vreme utopije, kao i na dimenziju novog. Tekst je podeljen u četiri celine, od kojih se prva bavi motivom za fantaziju; druga razmatra moć mašte i ograničenja zamišljanja; treća u svom središtu ima „cenu“ fantazije, potiranje složenosti postojećeg sveta. U četvrtom se delu razmatra značaj utopijskog mišljenja za društvenu teoriju.

External fixed shadings are largely used to provide solar protection for building glazed surfaces. They are reducing heat gains and sensational visual discomfort caused by excessive daylighting. This paper presents a comparative study on external aluminium fixed shadings used on a student dormitory on different orientations and different slat angles. The purpose is to determine which slat angles are best to use in different orientations, from the point of view of energy consumption, thermal comfort, and daylighting. An analysis of annual energy consumption of the student dormitory was performed by using the software EnergyPlus, whereas the model of the building was created using SketchUp and OpenStudio software. Then, a parametric study was carried out by changing slat angles and building orientations, in order to find the best-balanced results with no occupant discomfort and possible energy savings. Results have shown that by considering the most balanced results between energy savings and thermal comfort, the best angles of the slats are from 105˚ to 120˚ on the south side, and from 45˚ to 75˚ on the east and west sides. By installing external shading devices, indoor thermal conditions are improving and may lead to significant energy savings, compared to a building without shading devices.

Tema ovog teksta je odnos prema jednoj posebnoj klasi „drugih“. Dok su u zemnoj istoriji u pitanju bile druge civilizacije i kulture, u naučnoj fantastici je po pravilu reč o drugim vrstama i drugačijim oblicima života. Na primeru serija i filmova Zvezdanih staza pokazuje se da, uprkos značajnom naporu da se „multukulturalizam“ usvoji kao vlastito načelo i uprkos svesnom nastojanju da se poštuje i slavi različitost, „kolonijalni narativ“ ostaje na snazi i u vizijama budućnosti popularne naučne fantastike. Strah i/ili nasilje su tipske reakcije koje manje ili više (ne)skriveno ponavljaju obrazac našeg mišljenja drugosti i postupanja prema drugačijama kad god je reč o tuđinama, bilo da su oni stranci ili vanzemaljci.

Pola veka od odlaska prvih gastarbajtera na rad u zemlje zapadne Evrope je momenat u kome je potrebno rezimirati i refokusirati istraživanja celokupne pojave. U to istraživanje shodno vremenskoj distanci i dostupnim dokumentima uključili su se i istoričari, uz već ranije prisutna proučavanja u okvirima demografije, ekonomije i sociologije. Skromno učešće antropologa u dosadašnjem proučavanju gastarbajtera rezultiralo je siromaštvom problemski postavljenih pitanja i istraživanja koja na tako postavljena pitanja daju odgovore. Neki trenuci su propušteni usled nefunkcionalnog fokusiranja na iseljeništvo i nacionalne manjine u susedstvu, i danas mogu biti proučavani samo u okviru istorijske antropologije. Ipak, potrebno je definisati koji su to pravci problemski formiranih pitanja koji će učiniti prelaz sa deskripcije na tumačenje pojava proizašlih iz činjenice da je više od milion ljudi iz Srbije, tokom pola veka, dobar deo svog života provelo ili još uvek provodi u zemljama zapadne Evrope. Ovaj rad predstavlja pokušaj da se formulišu neki od mogućih puteva savremenog antropološkog proučavanja poluvekovnog „privremenog rada u inostranstvu“ građana Srbije.

Povodom knjige Gordana Gorunović. Antropologija Kliforda Gerca. Kulturna teorija i interpretativna analiza kultura. 2010. Beograd: Srpski genealoški centar i Odeljenje za etnologiju i antropologiju Filozofskog fakulteta

Prikaz naučnog skupa povodom 50. međunarodne univerzitetske nedelje "Između evropeizacije, globalizacije i tradicije: svakodnevna kultura u jugoistočnoj Evropi u tranziciji", Tucing 2011

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 ispomoć u vreme obnove Zapadne Evrope posle II svetskog rata. Ne samo da se veliki broj radnih migranata odlučivao da ostane u zemlji imigracije, već su radne migracije nastavljene sve do danas. U ovom radu interesuje nas da, dajući glas samim gastarbajterima, na osnovu njihovih životnih priča izdvojimo i uočimo karakteristike različitih migracionih talasa koji su bili motivisani jednom zajedničkom odlukom – željom za boljim životom i materijalnim blagostanjem, ali i posebnim dodatnim motivima za iseljenje u zavisnosti od političkih i socio-ekonomskih uslova u zemlji matici. Nadalje, interesuje nas proces akulturacije u različitim zemljama useljenja, uočavajući razlike koje postoje u odnosu na socijalnu politiku prema imigrantima, udaljenosti od Srbije i brojnosti sunarodnika u okruženju zemlje imigracije. Konačno, razmotrićemo i priče gastarbajtera-povratnika i razloge za odluku da se vrate u domovinu.

This paper is the result of research done on the TV comedy show (series) "Kursadžije" by Grand Production. The attention is directed towards understanding the motives of the Fool (buffoon) which appears as the characteristic of the main characters in the show. Kursadžije (a rough translation would be Course-attending-people) are attendants of a course for Special Balkan Forces and they are the representatives of the countries that constituted the former Socialistic Federative Republic of Yugoslavia. By using the theoretic guidelines of Klappe’s about the Fool as a social type, and the analysis of V.Trifunovic, I will demonstrate why all of the Kursadžija’s are Fools and how they are different one from the other based on their different follies (buffoonery, craziness). Having in mind that this is a Serbian TV show and that the Serbian attendant of that course, Gedža Crazy Milojko (the American equivalent of Gedža could be Redneck or Hillbilly), is the only one who has the term "Crazy" (Fool) in his name, I will particularly pay attention to the motive of "Serbian craziness", and examine is it a way to emphasize how special the Serbs are, how unique and unbeatably exotic, i.e., why is the "Serbian craziness" valued as a positive one.

People make places – ways of feeling the world, 10. SIEF kongres, 17-21/4/2011, Lisabon

In this paper I will analyze Serbian documentary films about guest workers dating from the last decade of the 20th and the first decade of the 21st century, using the perspective of visual anthropology. I question the popular cultural notions about guest workers in films Весеље у Ждрелу (A Celebration in Zdrelo) by author Kamenko Katic, Звона позне јесени (The Bells of Late Autumn) by author Zoran Milenovic, Кад је Милорад удавао ћерку (When Milorad Gave His Daughter in Marriage) by author Vladimir Milisavljevic, Странац тамо, странац овде (A Foreigner There, a Foreigner Here) by author Sandra Mandic and 242 метра живота (242 Meters of Life) by author Novica Savic. The films deal with a number of issues: the economic aspects of guest workers’ lives, their liminal character, the issues of the second and third generations of guest workers, going away "temporarily" to work, and religious rituals. Even though the films were made recently, they all follow the lives of Vlach and Serbian, or rather Yugoslav guest workers who left to find temporary work abroad in Western Europe in the 1960’s and 1970’s. This serves the purpose of avoiding to deal with contemporary reasons for emigrating from Serbia and thus the possible critiques of current regimes or policies in power at the time the films were made.

У раду се бавим феноменом радника на привременом раду у иностранству који су после Другог светског рата мигрирали у земље Западне Европе. У циљу економске обнове, западно-европске земље су због ниског наталитета и високог морталитета биле принуђене да запошљавају инострану радну снагу. С друге стране, лоши економски услови, немогућности запослења и жеља за вишим стандардом од оног у земљи порекла мотивисали су раднике из Италије, Шпаније, Португалије, Турске, СФР Југославије, Грчке, Ирске, Финске и земаља северне Африке да потраже запослење у иностранству. Радници на привременом раду у иностранству представљају спону између земље матице и земље пријема. Самим тим, радни мигранти се могу сматрати и дијаспором земље матице. С тим у вези, у раду јукстапозиционирам феномене „дијаспора“ и „радници на привременом раду“ у циљу преиспитивања да ли, када и како радници на привременом раду постају дијаспора. У раду је посебан акценат стављен на радне мигранте из СФР Југославије, популарно називане „гастарбајтерима“ и политички однос државе према њима.

U radu se pristupa tekućem procesu evro-integracija Republike Srbije iz semiotičke perspektive. S tim u vezi, na osnovu dostupnih podataka iz medija, evro-integracije se prvo uobličavaju u narativ, a zatim se dati narativ analizira iz semiotičke perspektive koristeći se postavkama, pre svega, Alžirdasa Žilijena Gremasa. U radu se semiotički analiziraju dva nivoa značenja: semio-narativni (površinski, sintagmatski i konkretni) nivo se istražuje putem transformacijskog i aktancijalnog modela, i dubinski, apstraktni, paradigmatski i atemporalni nivo putem semiotičkog kvadrata. Cilj rada je razumevanje kako se proizvode znanje i značenja evro-integracija.

Yugoslavia's foreign policy orientation and the country's role in the nonaligned movement made it possible for Josip Broz Tito to behave like a tourist. This paper aims to show what kind of tourist Tito was and what elements of tourism are to be found in his travels. Tito’s travels were to be contextualized into an aristocratic tourism and the creation of his personality cult within the Yugoslav political system. The paper will also highlight the contradictions between the official communist ideology and the undisputed leader’s actions which have the characteristics of a capitalist tourist. Within this contradiction, the vindicating mediating factors, "the policy of peace" and the nonaligned movement as the rationale for most of Tito’s travels as a tourist, were also backed up by the absolute impossibility of publicly drawing attention to the travels of aristocratic luxury unbecoming to the leader of a proletarian movement and of the working class struggle for power.

Приказ књиге "Социјална онтологија у филму „Аватар“. Антрополошка анализа", Нине Куленовић.

SVI PUTEVI VODE U GUČU: NAČINI REPREZENTACIJE SRBIJE I SRBA TOKOM FESTIVALA TRUBAČA U GUČI U radu će, kroz analizu fotografija dostupnih na internetu, biti reči o Saboru trubača u Dragačevu, poznatijem kao festival u Guči. Dragačevski sabor trubača je jedan od najpoznatijih muzičkih festivala u Srbiji i jedan od najpoznatijih festivala trubačkih okrestara na svetu. Festival se održava jednom godišnje od 1961. godine, u selu Guča u Zapadnoj Srbiji. Od 1962. godine festival je otvoren za učesnike iz drugih delova Srbije, a 1963. su prvi put učestvovali romski orkestri. Od tada, romski muzičari su ostali među najboljim trubačima na takmičenjima. Ipak, tokom poslednjih 50 godina, festival je uvek konceptualizovan i predstavljan kao nosilac srpske narodne tradicije i kulture. U istraživanju ću se koristiti fotografijama posetilaca festivala koje su dostupne na jednom od sajtova posvećenih Guči, www.guca.rs, kako bih ispitala kako fotografije sa festivala vizuelno predstavljaju Srbe. Osnovni cilj rada je da ukaže na to kako je festival u Guči našao svoje mesto u modernoj Srbiji uprkos svojoj ruralnoj, narodnoj, varvarskoj i ponekad nacionalističkoj medijskoj reprezentaciji.

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 readmission of Serbian refugees. The development of Serbian migratory policies represents part of national Euro-integration strategy. Therefore we find relevant to draw attentions to this topic. In this paper we outline basic national legislation procedures, laws and migratory strategies and give review of basic national and other bodies. Furthermore, we focus on gaps in processing problems of labour migrants in Serbia.