Annemarie Sorescu-Marinković
Biographic Data
| ID | 4169392 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Annemarie Sorescu-Marinković |
| GIVEN NAMES | Annemarie |
| FAMILY NAME | Sorescu-Marinković |
| SIGNATURE | SORESCU-MARINKOVIĆ A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8389-9976 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Migrations and the sacred topography of the Deliblato Sands
This paper focuses on the co-shaping of nature and the sacred landscape of the village of Deliblato, located on the margins of the Deliblato Sands, in Vojvodina, Serbia, also known as the “European Sahara”. This study illustrates how ‘natural’ and ‘cultural’ landscapes are inseparable, mutually shaped by human and non-human forces. We take two directions of research into how environmental reality impacts human-created sacred spaces: 1) we explore…
Mother tongue in Serbia
The present study analyzes the meanings bilingual and multilingual speakers attach to the term mother tongue , a familiar concept which is most often intuitively understood, but difficult to define. Taking as the main frame of reference the vulnerable linguistic communities of Serbia, the authors assess the answers given by the interviewees to the open question “What does the notion of mother tongue mean to you?” asked in the pilot sociolinguisti…
Cultural intimacy, cultural distance
This study focuses on a comparison of two sets of in-depth, face-to-face interviews among Romanians living in Poland about their perceptions of the country and society, and their migrant experiences. The interviews were conducted five years apart, using the same guide, but carried out by Polish interviewers in the first case, and by a Romanian interviewer in the second. Comparative analysis of the material gained in this process reveals that, des…
If the Sun Shines on Him once more, He will Live two Lives”
Until the final decades of the 20th century, the Vlachs of Eastern Serbia practiced a rather unusual funerary custom about which very little was known: exhuming people who died very young 40 days after the funeral, so that the inconsolable family could see them once more. Apart from bringing peace and consolation to the family, it seems that the belief behind this custom was that if the corpse is taken out of the grave once more, so that the sun …
What’s in a Vlach name? Patronyms, double naming and ethnic identity of the Vlachs of Eastern Serbia
This paper discusses the existence of two different systems of naming used among the Vlachs of Eastern Serbia: a private one, based on their Vlach patronyms, used exclusively in their home villages and transmitted only orally, and an official, Serbian one. After presenting an overview of Romanian names and naming practices in the 18 th –19 th centuries, with a focus on the double naming system, the author explains how the Vlachs kept their Vlach …
A Romanian 19th century document from the Vidin region
By bringing to the readers’ attention an unpublished Ottoman era document in Romanian, issued in 1861 in Rabrovo, a village in the Vidin region, back then under Ottoman rule, the article tries to shed light on the wider historical and sociolinguistic context of the Romanian-speaking population south of the Danube in the 19th century. The document is a donation-adoption act by which a Romanian man gives one of his sons for adoption to his brother,…
Writing systems and linguistic identity of the Vlach community of Eastern Serbia
In this article we examine, from a predominantly sociolinguistic perspective, the writing systems created throughout time for the graphic rendering of the variety of Romanian spoken by the Vlachs of Eastern Serbia. We especially investigate what influences the choice of a script (Latin or Cyrillic), of orthographic conventions and of a writing system, and how this choice correlates with the ideological attitude (reintegrationist or independentist…
Sisteme ortografice și identitate lingvistică la comunitatea românofonă din estul Serbiei
În studiul de față ne ocupăm dintr-o perspectivă preponderent sociolingvistică de sistemele de scriere create de-a lungul timpului pentru reprezentarea grafică a variantei limbii române vorbite de comunitatea românofonă din Serbia de est. Urmărim în special ce influențează alegerea unui alfabet (latin sau chirilic), a unor convenții ortografice și a unui sistem de scriere și cum se corelează această alegere cu atitudinea ideologică (reintegrațion…
The court of the Bayash
We attempt to nuance the theory that the Gypsy Court is practiced only by Romani-speaking peoples, showing that the memory of this institution and certain elements are still present today among the Bayash of Hungary, western Serbia and northern Croatia. We base our study on recent ethnological and anthropological field studies that we carried out in the regions of Medjimurje (Croatia) and Bačka (Serbia), and on written sources of the Bayash from …
Imagining the past, creating identity
Based on fieldwork conducted among several Bayash communities in the Balkans, the author examines the way in which the interlocutors assume an identity and try to construct a past for their people, using etiological legends about the origin of their community which combine heterogeneous historical and geographical knowledge. The author shows that imagining their past is as problematic for the Bayash as it is for any other Roma or non-Roma group; …
The court of the Bayash
We attempt to nuance the theory that the Gypsy Court is practiced only by Romani-speaking peoples, showing that the memory of this institution and certain elements are still present today among the Bayash of Hungary, western Serbia and northern Croatia. We base our study on recent ethnological and anthropological field studies that we carried out in the regions of Medjimurje (Croatia) and Bačka (Serbia), and on written sources of the Bayash from …
Imagining the past, creating identity
Based on fieldwork conducted among several Bayash communities in the Balkans, the author examines the way in which the interlocutors assume an identity and try to construct a past for their people, using etiological legends about the origin of their community which combine heterogeneous historical and geographical knowledge. The author shows that imagining their past is as problematic for the Bayash as it is for any other Roma or non-Roma group; …
The court of the Bayash
We attempt to nuance the theory that the Gypsy Court is practiced only by Romani-speaking peoples, showing that the memory of this institution and certain elements are still present today among the Bayash of Hungary, western Serbia and northern Croatia. We base our study on recent ethnological and anthropological field studies that we carried out in the regions of Medjimurje (Croatia) and Bačka (Serbia), and on written sources of the Bayash from …
Writing systems and linguistic identity of the Vlach community of Eastern Serbia
In this article we examine, from a predominantly sociolinguistic perspective, the writing systems created throughout time for the graphic rendering of the variety of Romanian spoken by the Vlachs of Eastern Serbia. We especially investigate what influences the choice of a script (Latin or Cyrillic), of orthographic conventions and of a writing system, and how this choice correlates with the ideological attitude (reintegrationist or independentist…
Sisteme ortografice și identitate lingvistică la comunitatea românofonă din estul Serbiei
În studiul de față ne ocupăm dintr-o perspectivă preponderent sociolingvistică de sistemele de scriere create de-a lungul timpului pentru reprezentarea grafică a variantei limbii române vorbite de comunitatea românofonă din Serbia de est. Urmărim în special ce influențează alegerea unui alfabet (latin sau chirilic), a unor convenții ortografice și a unui sistem de scriere și cum se corelează această alegere cu atitudinea ideologică (reintegrațion…
A Romanian 19th century document from the Vidin region
By bringing to the readers’ attention an unpublished Ottoman era document in Romanian, issued in 1861 in Rabrovo, a village in the Vidin region, back then under Ottoman rule, the article tries to shed light on the wider historical and sociolinguistic context of the Romanian-speaking population south of the Danube in the 19th century. The document is a donation-adoption act by which a Romanian man gives one of his sons for adoption to his brother,…
What’s in a Vlach name? Patronyms, double naming and ethnic identity of the Vlachs of Eastern Serbia
This paper discusses the existence of two different systems of naming used among the Vlachs of Eastern Serbia: a private one, based on their Vlach patronyms, used exclusively in their home villages and transmitted only orally, and an official, Serbian one. After presenting an overview of Romanian names and naming practices in the 18 th –19 th centuries, with a focus on the double naming system, the author explains how the Vlachs kept their Vlach …
Mother tongue in Serbia
The present study analyzes the meanings bilingual and multilingual speakers attach to the term mother tongue , a familiar concept which is most often intuitively understood, but difficult to define. Taking as the main frame of reference the vulnerable linguistic communities of Serbia, the authors assess the answers given by the interviewees to the open question “What does the notion of mother tongue mean to you?” asked in the pilot sociolinguisti…
Cultural intimacy, cultural distance
This study focuses on a comparison of two sets of in-depth, face-to-face interviews among Romanians living in Poland about their perceptions of the country and society, and their migrant experiences. The interviews were conducted five years apart, using the same guide, but carried out by Polish interviewers in the first case, and by a Romanian interviewer in the second. Comparative analysis of the material gained in this process reveals that, des…
If the Sun Shines on Him once more, He will Live two Lives”
Until the final decades of the 20th century, the Vlachs of Eastern Serbia practiced a rather unusual funerary custom about which very little was known: exhuming people who died very young 40 days after the funeral, so that the inconsolable family could see them once more. Apart from bringing peace and consolation to the family, it seems that the belief behind this custom was that if the corpse is taken out of the grave once more, so that the sun …
Migrations and the sacred topography of the Deliblato Sands
This paper focuses on the co-shaping of nature and the sacred landscape of the village of Deliblato, located on the margins of the Deliblato Sands, in Vojvodina, Serbia, also known as the “European Sahara”. This study illustrates how ‘natural’ and ‘cultural’ landscapes are inseparable, mutually shaped by human and non-human forces. We take two directions of research into how environmental reality impacts human-created sacred spaces: 1) we explore…
Balkans: History, Politics, Society (7 works) · History (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Linguistics (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Romanian (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works)