Miloš Rašić
Biographic Data
| ID | 5153205 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Miloš Rašić |
| GIVEN NAMES | Miloš |
| FAMILY NAME | Rašić |
| SIGNATURE | RAŠIĆ M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Ethnology |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6871-5553 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Choreography of Traditional Danceas Intangible Cultural Heritage
This paper examines the possibilities of defining the choreography of tradi-tional dance as a potential element of intangible cultural heritage in light of the 2003 UNESCO Convention. Although this genre is most often perceived as a staged, artistic, or stylized form that departs from vernacular dance traditions, I argue that it represents a specific mode of articulation, transmission, and institutionalization of dance heritage in contemporary so…
The body as a classroom: An anthropological analysis of the Folk Art Studio at the Pioneers’ House in Belgrade
This paper examines the emergence, development, and pedagogical significance of the Folk Art Studio at the Pioneers’ House in Belgrade through the biography of its founder and key actor, Bogdanka Boba Djuric, one of the most influential teachers of traditional dance in socialist Yugoslavia. Employing biographical and performative-anthropological approaches, the analysis draws on material collected through in-depth interviews and archival research…
Tailoring Identity: Folk Costume in Contemporary Society
In this paper, I offer an anthropological analysis of folk dress (narodna nošnja) in Serbia, approaching it not as a static relict of the past, but as a dynamic cultural artifact whose meanings, functions, and values are continually negotiated and transformed within contemporary society. I begin from the hypothesis that the dominant ethnological paradigm – particularly prevalent in older scholarship – is shaped by what I refer to as methodologica…
Dancing emotions: Challenges of emotional expression in the process of learning traditional dance
This article is based on a pilot project conducted among final-year students at the Folk Dance Department at the Ballet School in Novi Sad (2024). Since dance in the school system is insufficiently connected to emotions, with the primary emphasis being placed on the technical aspects of performance, the main goal of the project was to explore - both theoretically and practically - the relationship between bodily and emotional expression in tradit…
Transnational Return and Local Transformation: A Case Study of Returnee Entrepreneurs in the Negotin Region (Serbia)
Our research focuses on returnee entrepreneurs in Serbia, particularly members of the 1.5 generation, amidst ongoing campaigns promoting the return of highly educated migrants and potential entrepreneurs. Using a transnational paradigm, we examine their regular homeland visits, household and community investments, and both monetary and social remittances sent to family members remaining in Serbia. Our qualitative research methodology involved fie…
Transnational business strategies of Serbian entrepreneurs in Vienna
This paper explores the transnational business strategies of Serbian entrepreneurs in Vienna by analyzing their migration trajectories, social networks, and business models. The study is based on ethnographic research and data collected through semi-structured in-depth interviews conducted with Serbian entrepreneurs in Vienna. By examining the narratives of the respondents, the paper identifies key patterns in their entrepreneurial practices, inc…
Constitution of the "Kolo" Ensemble and Choreography of Traditional Dance – Anthropological Interpretation and Socio-Political Context
The Ensemble of Folk Dances and Songs of Serbia "Kolo" was founded in 1948 in Belgrade, on the initiative of the Committee for Culture and Art of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia. The task of the Ensemble was to artistically interpret and present the so-called folk artistic creativity, which predominantly encompassed various folklore creations of the rural population, on stage, in the country and abroad. Although seemingly simple and f…
Community mapping methodology - researching the heritage of the Romani women emancipation
This paper presents the relatively new - in local framework of humanities rarely applied - method of community mapping is introduced and explored. Community mapping is a participatory research approach that focuses on the needs of social groups, that are evaluated and holistically understood in the process; and used as a ground for designing policies for the further development of community research. The main case study of the analysis is the pro…
Aspects of the Integration of Third and Fourth Generations of Serbian Migrant Workers in Vienna
This paper focuses on the integration of the third and fourth generations of descendants of Serbian migrant workers residing in Vienna, Austria. This immigrant community emerged as a result of the influx of Serbian guest workers who have been moving to Austria for temporary employment since the end of World War II. The third and fourth generations consist of their (great) grandchildren. The objective of this study is to examine the current state …
Learning traditional singing in Serbian clubs in Vienna - economic aspects between amateurism and professionalism
Serbian clubs in Vienna are cultural, artistic, and sports organisations formed in the 1970s by Yugoslav guest workers, then called Yugoslav clubs. Since the 1990s, due to significant socio-political changes in the home country, the work policies of clubs in Vienna have changed, and they have become Serbian clubs. To learn traditional singing within the folklore sections of the mentioned clubs, the leaders hire pedagogues from Serbia - ethnomusic…
Return of Labour Migrants to Serbia: Realistic Expectations or Wishful Thinking
Serbia has traditionally been a country with a high emigration rate. Numerous administrative obstacles and slow economic reforms have discouraged migrants from returning and making business investments. Over the last few years there has been a noticeable effort to provide concrete assistance, introduce benefits and reliefs and stimulate return migrations, particularly of entrepreneurs and highly educated persons, by means of different strategies,…
A Decade of Studying Guest Workers Through the Projects of the Serbian Ethnological and Anthropological Society
This review paper provides an overview of the ten-year long anthropological 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 Ethnography. The projects were supported by the Serbian Ethnological and Anthropological Society and the Faculty of Phil…
The Search for Identity: An Anthropological Interpretation of Engaged Research in Paštrovići and the Use of the Concept of Intangible Cultural Heritage for Identity Political Purposes
Paštrovići is the name of a clan and of an ethnographic area of the Montenegrin coast stretching from Čanj to Bečići and from the Adriatic Sea to Crmnica. I visited this region twice, in 2017 and 2018, as part of the Etno Lab project, directed by the Bauo Society for Cultural Development from the town of Petrovac by the Sea, with funds and other forms of assistance provided by the Municipality of Budva, the Ministry of Culture of Montenegro, and …
Koreografisanje tradicionalnih plesova u sistemu komodifikujućih praksi: Primer srpskih klubova u Beču
Današnji srpski klubovi u Beču su kulturno-umetničke i sportske organizacije, proistekle iz nekadašnjih jugoslovenskih klubova koje su osnovali jugoslovenski gastarbajteri sedamdesetih godina XX veka. U početku, klubovi su svojim radom iskazivali pripadnost domovini, vodeći se ideologijom bratstva-jedinstva i iskazujući jugoslovenski identitet. Raspadom Jugoslavije, konfliktne nacionalne ideologije u zemlji matici uticale su i na klubove u dijasp…
How (Un)Aware are Young People in Serbia and the Diaspora of Serbia’s Intangible Cultural Heritage
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 of its further preservation, the project was conceived with the aim of conducting a survey on the aw…
Turbotronic: Case Study of Lenhart Tapes and Mirjana Raić
Turbotronic has been a trend in the Serbian popular music since 2010, when Lenhart had his first performance at Improstor in Novi Sad. Continuing with his work, an entire circle of audience has been created around Lenhart, as well as other artists who deal with a certain kind of improvisation of music. This direction gets the name Turbotronic, somehow unplanned, according to the same name reportage of the Vice Portal. Nowadays Turbotronic include…
Olivera Mladenovic and folk dances in the context of Serbian ethnology
Olivera Mladenović was born in 1914 in Skopje (Macedonia), but her entire professional and private life was connected to Belgrade and Serbia. Olivera Mladenović received her BA both in Yugoslav Literature and Serbian Language with the Old Church Slavonic Language, and in Ethnological Studies, while also receiving a PhD in the latter in 1965, because she considered that ethnology was important for further study of folk dances. The main subject of …
Amateur theater plays by Serbian migrants in Vienna
In the last twenty years, several cultural and educational organizations developed amongst the Serbian migrants in Vienna, and they engage in presenting modern day Serbian culture and the lives of migrants in a different light and with a different approach than some other clubs of our former migrants. The goal we have set with this study is to present just one segment of these activities, and those are the amateur theater plays that our migrants …
Yugoslav/Serbian clubs in Vienna in the historical context
The migrations from Yugoslavia after the Second World War, which are of importance for this paper, started as early as in the 1950s, got more and more complex, and became the key socio-political and economic process. Leaving for West-European countries where they later settled permanently, the migrants were developing the new cultural context in which they live even today. In this paper, I will focus on the Serbs who settled in Vienna, Austria. H…
"Celebrating oneself": The European review of Serbian folk dancing as a place of construction and commoditization of identity
Migration is a complex socio-political and economic process which, in Yugoslavia, began after WWII in the 1950's. When they left for, what they then believed would be temporary work; Yugoslavs had permanently settled in Western European countries and developed a new cultural context which they inhabit to this day. One of the phenomena which had arisen from this cultural context are Serbian clubs, which came into being through the disintegration o…
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"Celebrating oneself": The European review of Serbian folk dancing as a place of construction and commoditization of identity
Migration is a complex socio-political and economic process which, in Yugoslavia, began after WWII in the 1950's. When they left for, what they then believed would be temporary work; Yugoslavs had permanently settled in Western European countries and developed a new cultural context which they inhabit to this day. One of the phenomena which had arisen from this cultural context are Serbian clubs, which came into being through the disintegration o…
Yugoslav/Serbian clubs in Vienna in the historical context
The migrations from Yugoslavia after the Second World War, which are of importance for this paper, started as early as in the 1950s, got more and more complex, and became the key socio-political and economic process. Leaving for West-European countries where they later settled permanently, the migrants were developing the new cultural context in which they live even today. In this paper, I will focus on the Serbs who settled in Vienna, Austria. H…
Turbotronic: Case Study of Lenhart Tapes and Mirjana Raić
Turbotronic has been a trend in the Serbian popular music since 2010, when Lenhart had his first performance at Improstor in Novi Sad. Continuing with his work, an entire circle of audience has been created around Lenhart, as well as other artists who deal with a certain kind of improvisation of music. This direction gets the name Turbotronic, somehow unplanned, according to the same name reportage of the Vice Portal. Nowadays Turbotronic include…
Olivera Mladenovic and folk dances in the context of Serbian ethnology
Olivera Mladenović was born in 1914 in Skopje (Macedonia), but her entire professional and private life was connected to Belgrade and Serbia. Olivera Mladenović received her BA both in Yugoslav Literature and Serbian Language with the Old Church Slavonic Language, and in Ethnological Studies, while also receiving a PhD in the latter in 1965, because she considered that ethnology was important for further study of folk dances. The main subject of …
Amateur theater plays by Serbian migrants in Vienna
In the last twenty years, several cultural and educational organizations developed amongst the Serbian migrants in Vienna, and they engage in presenting modern day Serbian culture and the lives of migrants in a different light and with a different approach than some other clubs of our former migrants. The goal we have set with this study is to present just one segment of these activities, and those are the amateur theater plays that our migrants …
How (Un)Aware are Young People in Serbia and the Diaspora of Serbia’s Intangible Cultural Heritage
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 of its further preservation, the project was conceived with the aim of conducting a survey on the aw…
A Decade of Studying Guest Workers Through the Projects of the Serbian Ethnological and Anthropological Society
This review paper provides an overview of the ten-year long anthropological 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 Ethnography. The projects were supported by the Serbian Ethnological and Anthropological Society and the Faculty of Phil…
The Search for Identity: An Anthropological Interpretation of Engaged Research in Paštrovići and the Use of the Concept of Intangible Cultural Heritage for Identity Political Purposes
Paštrovići is the name of a clan and of an ethnographic area of the Montenegrin coast stretching from Čanj to Bečići and from the Adriatic Sea to Crmnica. I visited this region twice, in 2017 and 2018, as part of the Etno Lab project, directed by the Bauo Society for Cultural Development from the town of Petrovac by the Sea, with funds and other forms of assistance provided by the Municipality of Budva, the Ministry of Culture of Montenegro, and …
Koreografisanje tradicionalnih plesova u sistemu komodifikujućih praksi: Primer srpskih klubova u Beču
Današnji srpski klubovi u Beču su kulturno-umetničke i sportske organizacije, proistekle iz nekadašnjih jugoslovenskih klubova koje su osnovali jugoslovenski gastarbajteri sedamdesetih godina XX veka. U početku, klubovi su svojim radom iskazivali pripadnost domovini, vodeći se ideologijom bratstva-jedinstva i iskazujući jugoslovenski identitet. Raspadom Jugoslavije, konfliktne nacionalne ideologije u zemlji matici uticale su i na klubove u dijasp…
Learning traditional singing in Serbian clubs in Vienna - economic aspects between amateurism and professionalism
Serbian clubs in Vienna are cultural, artistic, and sports organisations formed in the 1970s by Yugoslav guest workers, then called Yugoslav clubs. Since the 1990s, due to significant socio-political changes in the home country, the work policies of clubs in Vienna have changed, and they have become Serbian clubs. To learn traditional singing within the folklore sections of the mentioned clubs, the leaders hire pedagogues from Serbia - ethnomusic…
Return of Labour Migrants to Serbia: Realistic Expectations or Wishful Thinking
Serbia has traditionally been a country with a high emigration rate. Numerous administrative obstacles and slow economic reforms have discouraged migrants from returning and making business investments. Over the last few years there has been a noticeable effort to provide concrete assistance, introduce benefits and reliefs and stimulate return migrations, particularly of entrepreneurs and highly educated persons, by means of different strategies,…
Aspects of the Integration of Third and Fourth Generations of Serbian Migrant Workers in Vienna
This paper focuses on the integration of the third and fourth generations of descendants of Serbian migrant workers residing in Vienna, Austria. This immigrant community emerged as a result of the influx of Serbian guest workers who have been moving to Austria for temporary employment since the end of World War II. The third and fourth generations consist of their (great) grandchildren. The objective of this study is to examine the current state …
Constitution of the "Kolo" Ensemble and Choreography of Traditional Dance – Anthropological Interpretation and Socio-Political Context
The Ensemble of Folk Dances and Songs of Serbia "Kolo" was founded in 1948 in Belgrade, on the initiative of the Committee for Culture and Art of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia. The task of the Ensemble was to artistically interpret and present the so-called folk artistic creativity, which predominantly encompassed various folklore creations of the rural population, on stage, in the country and abroad. Although seemingly simple and f…
Community mapping methodology - researching the heritage of the Romani women emancipation
This paper presents the relatively new - in local framework of humanities rarely applied - method of community mapping is introduced and explored. Community mapping is a participatory research approach that focuses on the needs of social groups, that are evaluated and holistically understood in the process; and used as a ground for designing policies for the further development of community research. The main case study of the analysis is the pro…
Dancing emotions: Challenges of emotional expression in the process of learning traditional dance
This article is based on a pilot project conducted among final-year students at the Folk Dance Department at the Ballet School in Novi Sad (2024). Since dance in the school system is insufficiently connected to emotions, with the primary emphasis being placed on the technical aspects of performance, the main goal of the project was to explore - both theoretically and practically - the relationship between bodily and emotional expression in tradit…
Transnational Return and Local Transformation: A Case Study of Returnee Entrepreneurs in the Negotin Region (Serbia)
Our research focuses on returnee entrepreneurs in Serbia, particularly members of the 1.5 generation, amidst ongoing campaigns promoting the return of highly educated migrants and potential entrepreneurs. Using a transnational paradigm, we examine their regular homeland visits, household and community investments, and both monetary and social remittances sent to family members remaining in Serbia. Our qualitative research methodology involved fie…
Transnational business strategies of Serbian entrepreneurs in Vienna
This paper explores the transnational business strategies of Serbian entrepreneurs in Vienna by analyzing their migration trajectories, social networks, and business models. The study is based on ethnographic research and data collected through semi-structured in-depth interviews conducted with Serbian entrepreneurs in Vienna. By examining the narratives of the respondents, the paper identifies key patterns in their entrepreneurial practices, inc…
The Choreography of Traditional Danceas Intangible Cultural Heritage
This paper examines the possibilities of defining the choreography of tradi-tional dance as a potential element of intangible cultural heritage in light of the 2003 UNESCO Convention. Although this genre is most often perceived as a staged, artistic, or stylized form that departs from vernacular dance traditions, I argue that it represents a specific mode of articulation, transmission, and institutionalization of dance heritage in contemporary so…
The body as a classroom: An anthropological analysis of the Folk Art Studio at the Pioneers’ House in Belgrade
This paper examines the emergence, development, and pedagogical significance of the Folk Art Studio at the Pioneers’ House in Belgrade through the biography of its founder and key actor, Bogdanka Boba Djuric, one of the most influential teachers of traditional dance in socialist Yugoslavia. Employing biographical and performative-anthropological approaches, the analysis draws on material collected through in-depth interviews and archival research…
Tailoring Identity: Folk Costume in Contemporary Society
In this paper, I offer an anthropological analysis of folk dress (narodna nošnja) in Serbia, approaching it not as a static relict of the past, but as a dynamic cultural artifact whose meanings, functions, and values are continually negotiated and transformed within contemporary society. I begin from the hypothesis that the dominant ethnological paradigm – particularly prevalent in older scholarship – is shaped by what I refer to as methodologica…
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