M Brujic
Biographic Data
| ID | 49798 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Brujic |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Brujic |
| SIGNATURE | BRUJIC M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Belgrade |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8004-6399 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Photography in Ethnographic Filmand the New Studies of Material Culture: An Anthropological Perspective
Due to its semiotic features, such as iconicity and indexicality, which enable communication, as well as its material characteristics, photography as an object of re-search in anthropology is addressed by both visual anthropology and the anthropolo-gy of material culture. In both anthropological subdisciplines, photographs have been treated as ethnographic documents. At the same time, within the contemporary con-text, these branches of anthropolo…
The post-socialist “unicorn” – truth or dare? Agency among Serbian (return) migrant entrepreneurs
In response to Serbia’s failed post-socialist transformation, this paper investigates (return) migrants’ entrepreneurial experiences. In 2024, 16 interviews were conducted throughout Serbia with returnees and descendants of Serbian migrants born abroad who had opened businesses in Serbia. Their entrepreneurship narratives were then interpreted in terms of “human agency” and juxtaposed with the wider Serbian socio-political context. The findings s…
Vaccine decision-making among Serbian parents in the Netherlands: Vaccine hesitancy in the ‘Post-Trust’ world
Vaccine hesitancy is a major contemporary threat to global health leading to the delay or refusal of vaccines. Quantitative studies on vaccination attitudes generally state that vaccine hesitancy is higher among immigrants. However, qualitative studies show a spectrum of vaccine-related attitudes and behaviours among immigrant parents, from refusal over delay to acceptance of all childhood vaccines. This paper is based on a 2020 qualitative study…
Epidemic in the time of the Covid-19 pandemic: News media framing of the MMR vaccination controversy in Serbia
Till Corona Sets Us Apart: Emerging Vaccination Risks among Serbian Parents in the Netherlands
In developed European Union (EU) countries, migrants are thought to be less likely to have their children fully vaccinated. To investigate this idea, this study examines parental perceptions of child vaccination during the Covid-19 pandemic. It is based on semi-structured interviews with 42 Serbian migrants in the Netherlands, conducted in the summer of 2020. The aim was to determine if the pandemic changed these parents' attitudes towards the Du…
Tokens of (Un)Belonging: Domestic Objects and the Sense of Home among Women Transmigrants in Belgrade
It is usually emphasized that the relationship between migrants and the domestic objects from their home countries is essential for migrants’ maintenance of their various identities. It is presumed that migrants need familiar objects to feel at home in new surroundings. This study focuses on the domestic material culture of transnational well-educated middle-class European women living in Belgrade. The aim of the paper is to discover what role do…
Sworn Virgins of the Balkan Highlands
Once widely spread in the Dinaric Mountains part of the Balkan Peninsula swearing to virginity was a social and cultural custom recorded among all groups inhabiting the area. In the absence of a capable adult man in the household, a daughter would take over his social role by ‘becoming’ a man. The standard explanation is that the function of this practice is enabling the continuation of the household’s economic, social, and religious activities. …
In Torlak we (would) trust: Domestic vaccine production in contemporary Serbia
Throughout the era of socialist Yugoslavia, the Institute of Virology, Vaccines and Sera 'Torlak' in Belgrade was a well known producer and exporter of vaccines. After the dissolution of the country, it gradually lost its significance in both global and domestic vaccine markets. However, in Serbian public discourse, Torlak's vaccines are still remembered as of the highest quality. Many people would willingly vaccinate themselves or their children…
Introduction to the anthropology of photography in Serbia
Despite significant strides from the beginning of the 20th century, there was no systematic or institutionalized reflection on photography in Serbian ethnology and anthropology until the 1980s. Until then, photography was mainly used as an additional technical tool for field recording, documenting, and presenting field materials in museums or scientific institutions. However, since the end of the 20th, and especially at the beginning of the 21st …
EU Transmigrants in Belgrade as Agents of Europeanisation from Below
Migration studies are usually concerned with involuntary or underprivileged migrants living in highly developed societies. In contrast, this article focuses on emigration from affluent to less developed countries, using the example of EU lifestyle women transmigrants living in Belgrade. Serbia is a Western Balkan EU candidate country with a high youth emigration rate. The aim of this study is to question whether EU migrants can be development act…
The Novel “Snowman” by David Albahari. A Socio-Anthropological Reading
In this paper ideas of literary anthropology that legitimize research of fiction work in socio-cultural anthropology are combined with the theories and methodologies of migration studies. Novels can be used as a source for understanding and interpreting certain phenomena from our socio-cultural reality and be an object of research. Therefore, this paper analyzes the novel Snowman (1996) by David Albahari from his so-called “Canadian Trilogy”. It …
Stick without a Carrot”: An Anthropological Analysis of the Daily Press on Mandatory MMR Immunization in Serbia
The vaccine is considered in academic, foremost medical, but also in political and public discourse as one of the greatest human achievements. Immunization has saved and is saving millions of lives around the world. However, from a historical perspective, immunization was always followed by more or less public resistance due to its alleged negative side-effects, such as outbursts of severe illnesses. A mandatory childhood vaccine against measles,…
There’s No Place Like Home: Female EU Migrants in Belgrade
The subject of this paper is the anthropological analysis of narratives of female migrants from the EU who are living in Belgrade. The analysis uses the approaches of “transnationalism from below” and home studies. The paper addresses the question of what is home for EU citizens living outside the EU. The aim is to cast increased light on middle-class migrations from more developed countries to a less developed country. The main results show that…
Serbian Church Chant as Intangible Cultural Heritage – Preliminary View from Interdisciplinary Perspective
Serbian church chant represents traditional liturgical chant of Serbian Orthodox Church. It has its foundations in Greek medieval musical tradition and Serbian folk singing. Most probably it is established during the 18th and at the beginning of the 19th century. In this period, it was cultivated especially in the monasteries of Fruška Gora and theological and secular schools in the Metropolitanate of Karlovci. In the forthcoming decades, it was …
Anthropological analysis of cultural representations of Serbia and the European Union by EU female citizens living in Belgrade
This article researches Europeanization of everyday life in Serbia on a micro level. It combines cultural representations approach from cognitive theory with an analysis of life stories from migration studies. Thus, the paper analyses the results of in-depth semistructured interviews with eight EU female citizens from Austria, Estonia, France, Finland, Great Britain, Greece, Germany, and Slovenia. They have chosen to live in Serbia, more precisel…
A brief introduction to the history of anthropology of photography
The paper represents a short historical overview of key anthropological figures in Anglo-American and French anthropology of photography such are Boas, Malinowski, Evans-Pritchard, Mead and Bateson, Levi-Strauss and (John) Collier till the current visual anthropologists as Banks, Pink, Ruby, Pinney, and Edwards, among many. Furthermore, the major theoretical ideas such are: objectivity and subjectivity of photography, its material, and intangible…
Modernization in the film “Dear Video” – anthropological analysis
The subject of this paper is a Serbian feature film Dear Video from 1991. Two brothers, one who is living in Germany and the other who is living in Serbian village and their families are communicating through VHS video tapes. Instead of facilitating their communication, the VHS video tapes actually reveal all that was suppressed and hidden from surface relationships (dishonesty, jealousy, deceptions). Thus, this paper combines two approaches: fil…
Love at first sight”: TV shows. And introduction into anthropological analysis
Television shows are a noted and important form of popular culture. They are subject to anthropological research as much as any other form of pop culture and this has been done in the new Serbian anthropology which had included them in its inventory of researchable phenomena. By researching television shows, an anthropologist researches contemporary society and the meanings and values contained in the shows, as well as through the reception of th…
Prospective Perspective: Visual Anthropology and/as Intangible Cultural Heritage in Serbia
Although only recently recognized by the Serbian government (in 2010), intangible cultural heritage constitutes an indispensable part of anthropological research programs in Serbia. We juxtapose current Serbian national and socio-anthropological practices toward ICH and discuss the importance of these practices for the safeguarding of this heritage. Furthermore, we focus on visual anthropology and visual ethnography to explore the possibilities, …
“I’m a Poor Lonesome Cowboy and a Long Way from Home…”: Serbian Documentary Films about Guest Workers
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 Milo…
Conditions of Labour Migrants in the Republic of Serbia: Preliminary Perspective
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 na…
Euro-Integrations of Serbia: A Semiotic Analysis
The paper focuses on the current process of euro-integrations of Serbia, from a semiotic perspective. Accordingly, based on data gathered from the media, euro-integrations are shaped into a narrative, which is subsequently analyzed from a semiotic point of view, primarily utilizing the methods of Algirdas Julien Greimas. Two levels of meaning will be analyzed in the paper: the semio-narrative (surface, syntagmatic, specific) level will be explore…
All Roads Lead to Guča: Modes of Representing Serbia and Serbs during the Guča Trumpet Festival
In this paper I research famous Serbian music event, the Dragačevo Trumpet Festival, better known as the Guča festival, by analysing on line photographs about the festival. The Dragačevo Trumpet Festival is one of the most famous music festivals in Serbia and one of the most famous brass band festivals in the world. Since 1961, it is annually held in the village of Guča in western Serbia. From 1962, the participants from other parts of Serbia cam…
Between History and Modernity: The Anthropological Study of Migrant Workers in the 21st Century
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 participat…
The Diaspora and Temporary Migrant Workers: Basic Concepts
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, …
Epidemic in the time of the Covid-19 pandemic: News media framing of the MMR vaccination controversy in Serbia
EU Transmigrants in Belgrade as Agents of Europeanisation from Below
Migration studies are usually concerned with involuntary or underprivileged migrants living in highly developed societies. In contrast, this article focuses on emigration from affluent to less developed countries, using the example of EU lifestyle women transmigrants living in Belgrade. Serbia is a Western Balkan EU candidate country with a high youth emigration rate. The aim of this study is to question whether EU migrants can be development act…
There’s No Place Like Home: Female EU Migrants in Belgrade
The subject of this paper is the anthropological analysis of narratives of female migrants from the EU who are living in Belgrade. The analysis uses the approaches of “transnationalism from below” and home studies. The paper addresses the question of what is home for EU citizens living outside the EU. The aim is to cast increased light on middle-class migrations from more developed countries to a less developed country. The main results show that…
Till Corona Sets Us Apart: Emerging Vaccination Risks among Serbian Parents in the Netherlands
In developed European Union (EU) countries, migrants are thought to be less likely to have their children fully vaccinated. To investigate this idea, this study examines parental perceptions of child vaccination during the Covid-19 pandemic. It is based on semi-structured interviews with 42 Serbian migrants in the Netherlands, conducted in the summer of 2020. The aim was to determine if the pandemic changed these parents' attitudes towards the Du…
Tokens of (Un)Belonging: Domestic Objects and the Sense of Home among Women Transmigrants in Belgrade
It is usually emphasized that the relationship between migrants and the domestic objects from their home countries is essential for migrants’ maintenance of their various identities. It is presumed that migrants need familiar objects to feel at home in new surroundings. This study focuses on the domestic material culture of transnational well-educated middle-class European women living in Belgrade. The aim of the paper is to discover what role do…
Serbs, the craziest of all – TV comedy show "Кursadžije" by Grand Production
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 r…
Tito as a Tourist
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…
Between History and Modernity: The Anthropological Study of Migrant Workers in the 21st Century
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 participat…
The Diaspora and Temporary Migrant Workers: Basic Concepts
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, …
Guest Workers – From Their Own Perspective. Narratives About Life and the Socio-Economic Position of Migrant Workers
Based on fieldwork conducted in Eastern Serbia (Knjaževac and Kučevo 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 reconstruct…
Euro-Integrations of Serbia: A Semiotic Analysis
The paper focuses on the current process of euro-integrations of Serbia, from a semiotic perspective. Accordingly, based on data gathered from the media, euro-integrations are shaped into a narrative, which is subsequently analyzed from a semiotic point of view, primarily utilizing the methods of Algirdas Julien Greimas. Two levels of meaning will be analyzed in the paper: the semio-narrative (surface, syntagmatic, specific) level will be explore…
All Roads Lead to Guča: Modes of Representing Serbia and Serbs during the Guča Trumpet Festival
In this paper I research famous Serbian music event, the Dragačevo Trumpet Festival, better known as the Guča festival, by analysing on line photographs about the festival. The Dragačevo Trumpet Festival is one of the most famous music festivals in Serbia and one of the most famous brass band festivals in the world. Since 1961, it is annually held in the village of Guča in western Serbia. From 1962, the participants from other parts of Serbia cam…
“I’m a Poor Lonesome Cowboy and a Long Way from Home…”: Serbian Documentary Films about Guest Workers
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 Milo…
Conditions of Labour Migrants in the Republic of Serbia: Preliminary Perspective
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 na…
Love at first sight”: TV shows. And introduction into anthropological analysis
Television shows are a noted and important form of popular culture. They are subject to anthropological research as much as any other form of pop culture and this has been done in the new Serbian anthropology which had included them in its inventory of researchable phenomena. By researching television shows, an anthropologist researches contemporary society and the meanings and values contained in the shows, as well as through the reception of th…
Prospective Perspective: Visual Anthropology and/as Intangible Cultural Heritage in Serbia
Although only recently recognized by the Serbian government (in 2010), intangible cultural heritage constitutes an indispensable part of anthropological research programs in Serbia. We juxtapose current Serbian national and socio-anthropological practices toward ICH and discuss the importance of these practices for the safeguarding of this heritage. Furthermore, we focus on visual anthropology and visual ethnography to explore the possibilities, …
A brief introduction to the history of anthropology of photography
The paper represents a short historical overview of key anthropological figures in Anglo-American and French anthropology of photography such are Boas, Malinowski, Evans-Pritchard, Mead and Bateson, Levi-Strauss and (John) Collier till the current visual anthropologists as Banks, Pink, Ruby, Pinney, and Edwards, among many. Furthermore, the major theoretical ideas such are: objectivity and subjectivity of photography, its material, and intangible…
Modernization in the film “Dear Video” – anthropological analysis
The subject of this paper is a Serbian feature film Dear Video from 1991. Two brothers, one who is living in Germany and the other who is living in Serbian village and their families are communicating through VHS video tapes. Instead of facilitating their communication, the VHS video tapes actually reveal all that was suppressed and hidden from surface relationships (dishonesty, jealousy, deceptions). Thus, this paper combines two approaches: fil…
Serbian Church Chant as Intangible Cultural Heritage – Preliminary View from Interdisciplinary Perspective
Serbian church chant represents traditional liturgical chant of Serbian Orthodox Church. It has its foundations in Greek medieval musical tradition and Serbian folk singing. Most probably it is established during the 18th and at the beginning of the 19th century. In this period, it was cultivated especially in the monasteries of Fruška Gora and theological and secular schools in the Metropolitanate of Karlovci. In the forthcoming decades, it was …
Anthropological analysis of cultural representations of Serbia and the European Union by EU female citizens living in Belgrade
This article researches Europeanization of everyday life in Serbia on a micro level. It combines cultural representations approach from cognitive theory with an analysis of life stories from migration studies. Thus, the paper analyses the results of in-depth semistructured interviews with eight EU female citizens from Austria, Estonia, France, Finland, Great Britain, Greece, Germany, and Slovenia. They have chosen to live in Serbia, more precisel…
The Novel “Snowman” by David Albahari. A Socio-Anthropological Reading
In this paper ideas of literary anthropology that legitimize research of fiction work in socio-cultural anthropology are combined with the theories and methodologies of migration studies. Novels can be used as a source for understanding and interpreting certain phenomena from our socio-cultural reality and be an object of research. Therefore, this paper analyzes the novel Snowman (1996) by David Albahari from his so-called “Canadian Trilogy”. It …
Stick without a Carrot”: An Anthropological Analysis of the Daily Press on Mandatory MMR Immunization in Serbia
The vaccine is considered in academic, foremost medical, but also in political and public discourse as one of the greatest human achievements. Immunization has saved and is saving millions of lives around the world. However, from a historical perspective, immunization was always followed by more or less public resistance due to its alleged negative side-effects, such as outbursts of severe illnesses. A mandatory childhood vaccine against measles,…
There’s No Place Like Home: Female EU Migrants in Belgrade
The subject of this paper is the anthropological analysis of narratives of female migrants from the EU who are living in Belgrade. The analysis uses the approaches of “transnationalism from below” and home studies. The paper addresses the question of what is home for EU citizens living outside the EU. The aim is to cast increased light on middle-class migrations from more developed countries to a less developed country. The main results show that…
Introduction to the anthropology of photography in Serbia
Despite significant strides from the beginning of the 20th century, there was no systematic or institutionalized reflection on photography in Serbian ethnology and anthropology until the 1980s. Until then, photography was mainly used as an additional technical tool for field recording, documenting, and presenting field materials in museums or scientific institutions. However, since the end of the 20th, and especially at the beginning of the 21st …
EU Transmigrants in Belgrade as Agents of Europeanisation from Below
Migration studies are usually concerned with involuntary or underprivileged migrants living in highly developed societies. In contrast, this article focuses on emigration from affluent to less developed countries, using the example of EU lifestyle women transmigrants living in Belgrade. Serbia is a Western Balkan EU candidate country with a high youth emigration rate. The aim of this study is to question whether EU migrants can be development act…
Sworn Virgins of the Balkan Highlands
Once widely spread in the Dinaric Mountains part of the Balkan Peninsula swearing to virginity was a social and cultural custom recorded among all groups inhabiting the area. In the absence of a capable adult man in the household, a daughter would take over his social role by ‘becoming’ a man. The standard explanation is that the function of this practice is enabling the continuation of the household’s economic, social, and religious activities. …
In Torlak we (would) trust: Domestic vaccine production in contemporary Serbia
Throughout the era of socialist Yugoslavia, the Institute of Virology, Vaccines and Sera 'Torlak' in Belgrade was a well known producer and exporter of vaccines. After the dissolution of the country, it gradually lost its significance in both global and domestic vaccine markets. However, in Serbian public discourse, Torlak's vaccines are still remembered as of the highest quality. Many people would willingly vaccinate themselves or their children…
Tokens of (Un)Belonging: Domestic Objects and the Sense of Home among Women Transmigrants in Belgrade
It is usually emphasized that the relationship between migrants and the domestic objects from their home countries is essential for migrants’ maintenance of their various identities. It is presumed that migrants need familiar objects to feel at home in new surroundings. This study focuses on the domestic material culture of transnational well-educated middle-class European women living in Belgrade. The aim of the paper is to discover what role do…
Epidemic in the time of the Covid-19 pandemic: News media framing of the MMR vaccination controversy in Serbia
Till Corona Sets Us Apart: Emerging Vaccination Risks among Serbian Parents in the Netherlands
In developed European Union (EU) countries, migrants are thought to be less likely to have their children fully vaccinated. To investigate this idea, this study examines parental perceptions of child vaccination during the Covid-19 pandemic. It is based on semi-structured interviews with 42 Serbian migrants in the Netherlands, conducted in the summer of 2020. The aim was to determine if the pandemic changed these parents' attitudes towards the Du…
Sociology (19 works) · Political science (15 works) · Serbian (14 works) · Law (12 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Art (10 works) · Anthropology (8 works) · Balkans: History, Politics, Society (8 works) · Linguistics (8 works) · Gender Studies (6 works)