Aleksandra Pavićević
Biographic Data
| ID | 6395449 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aleksandra Pavićević |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aleksandra |
| FAMILY NAME | Pavićević |
| SIGNATURE | PAVIĆEVIĆ A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Serbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7915-6408 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Christian Orthodoxy in Serbia today
Text is divided in two parts. First represents introductory to thematic volume of Bulletin of Institute of Ethnography. In it, author attempts to summarize theoretical concepts and scopes of previous researches of process of reactualization of social, cultural and spiritual role of Christian Orthodoxy in Serbia during last forty years. She first returns to notions of secularization and de-secularization calling for their critical reading and afte…
A minute’s silence
The idea of modern cremation was much more than a notion of a more hygienic, ecological and aesthetically acceptable method for the disposal of human remains. From its inception at the end of the 18th century, all the way into the second half of the 20th century, it was tied to various political, national and cultural ideologies, with the common factor throughout being anticlericalism and secularisation. In this paper, I will explore the developm…
Funerary Practices in Serbia
Funerary Practices in Serbia is the first book to offer a concise yet highly informative study of the historical development and current state of funerary practices in Serbia. It explores the historical roots of contemporary funerary practices in the country and provides illuminating insight into how death is “managed” in Serbia today
From Electroacustic Music to Byzantine Cantillation and Vice Versa
The relationship between the artist and the time in which he creates is almost always two-way – the historical moment forms choices, styles and artistic expression, while the artist himself becomes the symbol of the epoch, with its individuality and particularity. In music as the most abstract act of creation, this connection may not be so obvious. It is relatively easy to get out of time frames, and its interpretations often lose the connection …
Some issues of shaping thanatology as a discipline
Development of death studies, choice of topics and aspects of their interpretations were influenced by many factors, both global and local. The former were related to universal processes of medicalization, bureaucratization and professionalization of death and dying, as well as to processes of general secularization of society and culture. The latter were connected with specific and dominant local social and cultural praxes, politics and academic…
From lighting to dust death, funeral and post mortem destiny of Nikola Tesla
This text points out some less known facts about death and funeral of great Serbian scientists Nikola Tesla. Keeping on mind social and political contexts in which Tesla's post mortem destiny took place, author offered possible answers on the issues of ideological usage of his work and character. Different features of public discourses about Tesla in different historical periods 1936-2014, as well as various forms of his post mortem glorification…
Social sciences and the humanities
Pavićević, Aleksandra - Social sciences and the humanities: Facing the challenges of postdisciplinarity and the market. Experiences with preparing, organizing and funding scientific studies - Glasnik Etnografskog instituta SANU
Why was the writer cremated? Thanato - anthropological aspects of death and funeral of Yugoslav literate Ivo Andric
The author discuses the funeral of Yugoslav writer, Ivo Andrić, with a particular focus on his wish to be incinerated. This wish is analyzed from several aspects: through the concept of celebrating great people in the time of socialism and from the standpoint of Andrić’s delicate political position and his consistent attempts to avoid alignment inside offered ideological, intellectual and national frames. On the other hand, his will to be cremate…
Living acts of dead bodies
It is widely known and has been more or less elaborated in scientific literature that return to religion in the area of former SFRY was conducted hand-in-hand with the development of the new national states and establishment of new/old ethnic borders and identities. This is why it is logical that this phenomenon is frequently qualified as the religion of the nation and nationalism. However, this qualification frequently lacks insight into the fac…
Death in media
This paper discusses the role of media in a construction of public image speech and presentation of death. The main research questions could be posed as follows: does the media discourse confirm a thesis about modern society as the one which intensely avoids encounter with Death, or does it defy it? Frequent images or hints of death in visual media in films informative and entertainment programs-suggest certain changes related to this issue in th…
Day of mourning and time of reminiscence
The most impressive event of death in the Yugoslav region in the last 50 years was definitely associated with death and funeral of Josip Broz Tito, in May 1980. The departure of one of the last European pharaohs has marked the beginning of an end of an era, with still hard to measure ideological and political consequences. In a symbolic sense, the departure represented a final breakdown of the proclaimed rational and secular walls of communist id…
Time with or without death
Topics of ethnological research, as well as scientific discourse in general often represent the mirror of social reality. This paper researches the ways in which dealing with death and current ethnological approaches in Serbian ethnology during the second half of the 20th century, reflect the Zeitgeist. The intensity and the quality of interests for this important anthropological theme varied during the researched period, wherefore it is possible…
Social policy towards the family
Intensive development of socialist society, which started immediately after Second World War, proceeded simultaneously on two mutually conditional tracks: on material and ideological. In certain way, both were based on the critique of traditional social concept: starting from its economic and all the way to value characteristics under all encompassing parole of "modernization". The policy of transformation was mostly based on certain number of di…
"Oganj - association of cremation in Belgrade"
And although the development and spreading of the idea of cremation, as well as mentioned laws, could be seen as the beginning of secularization of death death has remained, for a long time, closely associated with this or that religious beliefs and practice. Still, the development of the idea of cremation during the 20th century testifies on changes related to understanding of death among the contemporary, especially urban population in Serbia. …
The White Angel
The question of "invented traditions" became very popular among academics of various backgrounds, especially among anthropologists and ethnologists. It becomes almost a rule to proclaim that such and such custom or cultural element belongs in fact to "the invented tradition", made up by some power group as a means to a political or social end. Most contemporary authors faced with a problem of the invented/not invented tradition do not even try to…
A few questions concerning exterior migrations of Yugoslav population during the second half of the 20th century
The territory of the former Yugoslavia (within all of its structures and forms during the second half of the 20Č century - from FPRY, SFRY, FRY, to Serbia and Montenegro) was the subject of more or less intensive external and internal migrations. The first larger wave of emigration occurred immediately after the end of World War II, mostly due to the political events in the country that concerned ideological orientation of national-liberation war…
The wedding act in Serbia in the light of social changes
Traditional form of getting married included wedding ceremony in which we had, among other rituals, obligatory church wedding. Church wedding was omitted in certain cases, as it was, for example, marriage of underage partners. When transformation of traditional life begun, church wedding was omitted more often, though it was still norm (in traditional and civilian law). In this period, traditional wedding ceremony was considered as popular way of…
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The wedding act in Serbia in the light of social changes
Traditional form of getting married included wedding ceremony in which we had, among other rituals, obligatory church wedding. Church wedding was omitted in certain cases, as it was, for example, marriage of underage partners. When transformation of traditional life begun, church wedding was omitted more often, though it was still norm (in traditional and civilian law). In this period, traditional wedding ceremony was considered as popular way of…
A few questions concerning exterior migrations of Yugoslav population during the second half of the 20th century
The territory of the former Yugoslavia (within all of its structures and forms during the second half of the 20Č century - from FPRY, SFRY, FRY, to Serbia and Montenegro) was the subject of more or less intensive external and internal migrations. The first larger wave of emigration occurred immediately after the end of World War II, mostly due to the political events in the country that concerned ideological orientation of national-liberation war…
The White Angel
The question of "invented traditions" became very popular among academics of various backgrounds, especially among anthropologists and ethnologists. It becomes almost a rule to proclaim that such and such custom or cultural element belongs in fact to "the invented tradition", made up by some power group as a means to a political or social end. Most contemporary authors faced with a problem of the invented/not invented tradition do not even try to…
"Oganj - association of cremation in Belgrade"
And although the development and spreading of the idea of cremation, as well as mentioned laws, could be seen as the beginning of secularization of death death has remained, for a long time, closely associated with this or that religious beliefs and practice. Still, the development of the idea of cremation during the 20th century testifies on changes related to understanding of death among the contemporary, especially urban population in Serbia. …
Social policy towards the family
Intensive development of socialist society, which started immediately after Second World War, proceeded simultaneously on two mutually conditional tracks: on material and ideological. In certain way, both were based on the critique of traditional social concept: starting from its economic and all the way to value characteristics under all encompassing parole of "modernization". The policy of transformation was mostly based on certain number of di…
Time with or without death
Topics of ethnological research, as well as scientific discourse in general often represent the mirror of social reality. This paper researches the ways in which dealing with death and current ethnological approaches in Serbian ethnology during the second half of the 20th century, reflect the Zeitgeist. The intensity and the quality of interests for this important anthropological theme varied during the researched period, wherefore it is possible…
Day of mourning and time of reminiscence
The most impressive event of death in the Yugoslav region in the last 50 years was definitely associated with death and funeral of Josip Broz Tito, in May 1980. The departure of one of the last European pharaohs has marked the beginning of an end of an era, with still hard to measure ideological and political consequences. In a symbolic sense, the departure represented a final breakdown of the proclaimed rational and secular walls of communist id…
Death in media
This paper discusses the role of media in a construction of public image speech and presentation of death. The main research questions could be posed as follows: does the media discourse confirm a thesis about modern society as the one which intensely avoids encounter with Death, or does it defy it? Frequent images or hints of death in visual media in films informative and entertainment programs-suggest certain changes related to this issue in th…
Living acts of dead bodies
It is widely known and has been more or less elaborated in scientific literature that return to religion in the area of former SFRY was conducted hand-in-hand with the development of the new national states and establishment of new/old ethnic borders and identities. This is why it is logical that this phenomenon is frequently qualified as the religion of the nation and nationalism. However, this qualification frequently lacks insight into the fac…
Social sciences and the humanities
Pavićević, Aleksandra - Social sciences and the humanities: Facing the challenges of postdisciplinarity and the market. Experiences with preparing, organizing and funding scientific studies - Glasnik Etnografskog instituta SANU
Why was the writer cremated? Thanato - anthropological aspects of death and funeral of Yugoslav literate Ivo Andric
The author discuses the funeral of Yugoslav writer, Ivo Andrić, with a particular focus on his wish to be incinerated. This wish is analyzed from several aspects: through the concept of celebrating great people in the time of socialism and from the standpoint of Andrić’s delicate political position and his consistent attempts to avoid alignment inside offered ideological, intellectual and national frames. On the other hand, his will to be cremate…
From lighting to dust death, funeral and post mortem destiny of Nikola Tesla
This text points out some less known facts about death and funeral of great Serbian scientists Nikola Tesla. Keeping on mind social and political contexts in which Tesla's post mortem destiny took place, author offered possible answers on the issues of ideological usage of his work and character. Different features of public discourses about Tesla in different historical periods 1936-2014, as well as various forms of his post mortem glorification…
Some issues of shaping thanatology as a discipline
Development of death studies, choice of topics and aspects of their interpretations were influenced by many factors, both global and local. The former were related to universal processes of medicalization, bureaucratization and professionalization of death and dying, as well as to processes of general secularization of society and culture. The latter were connected with specific and dominant local social and cultural praxes, politics and academic…
From Electroacustic Music to Byzantine Cantillation and Vice Versa
The relationship between the artist and the time in which he creates is almost always two-way – the historical moment forms choices, styles and artistic expression, while the artist himself becomes the symbol of the epoch, with its individuality and particularity. In music as the most abstract act of creation, this connection may not be so obvious. It is relatively easy to get out of time frames, and its interpretations often lose the connection …
A minute’s silence
The idea of modern cremation was much more than a notion of a more hygienic, ecological and aesthetically acceptable method for the disposal of human remains. From its inception at the end of the 18th century, all the way into the second half of the 20th century, it was tied to various political, national and cultural ideologies, with the common factor throughout being anticlericalism and secularisation. In this paper, I will explore the developm…
Funerary Practices in Serbia
Funerary Practices in Serbia is the first book to offer a concise yet highly informative study of the historical development and current state of funerary practices in Serbia. It explores the historical roots of contemporary funerary practices in the country and provides illuminating insight into how death is “managed” in Serbia today
Christian Orthodoxy in Serbia today
Text is divided in two parts. First represents introductory to thematic volume of Bulletin of Institute of Ethnography. In it, author attempts to summarize theoretical concepts and scopes of previous researches of process of reactualization of social, cultural and spiritual role of Christian Orthodoxy in Serbia during last forty years. She first returns to notions of secularization and de-secularization calling for their critical reading and afte…
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