The Serbian community of the Kosovo Morava region in a kaleidoscope of folklore fieldwork research

Autor: Sanja Zlatanovic
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: Prilozi za knjizevnost, jezik, istoriju i folklor. :113-125
ISSN: 2406-0798
0350-6673
DOI: 10.2298/pkjif1480113z
Popis: The present paper briefly reviews field research to date in the Morava region of Kosovo, mainly centering on folklore studies but including studies in the kindred sciences of ethnology and anthropology. It focuses on research carried out in the Serbian community, as this is at the centre of interest of Serbian folklore studies, ethnology and anthropology. The Kosovo Morava region, however, is a multiethnic area with hybrid cultural practices. Research, therefore, whether in the field or based on material obtained on the ground, implies careful contextualization. The author first refers to work of Jastrebov, and to articles published in the journal Carigradski glasnik (1895-1905), going on to discuss the results of 20th century field research by Ljubica and Danica Jankovic, Miodrag Vasiljevic, Tatomir Vukanovic, Vladimir Cvetanovic, Momcilo Zlatanovic, students from University of Pristina (Vladimir Bovan, ed.), with local enthusiasts Stanislav Kojic and Ratko Stoiljkovic. The Serbian community of the Morava Region of Kosovo was the focus of a ethnolinguistic project Studies of Slavic Speeches in Kosovo and Metohija, by the Institute for Serbian Language of SASA, and supported by UNESCO (2002- 2003). The project collected a significant body of folklore material, but the relevant papers addressed this mainly from the linguistic perspective. Sanja Zlatanovic, author of the present paper, carried out extensive ethnographic research into the Serbian community of the Kosovo Morava region, obtaining narratives with the marks of folklore. Those about events linked to the war and its aftermath are of particular interest, situated as they are at the point where the fields of anthropology and folklore cross. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. 177027: Multietnicitet, multikulturalnost, migracije - savremeni procesi]
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