Writing
Publications
In English
- Inverted Perspective and Serbian Peasants: Antiquities and the Byzantine
Revival in Serbia. In Andrew Colin Gow, ed. Hyphenated Histories:
Central European Bildung and Slavic Studies in the Contemporary Academy.
Roger Chickering and Tom Brady eds., Studies in Central European History
Series, Leiden: Brill, pp. 141-166. Expected publication November
2007. http://www.brill.nl/default.aspx?partid=18&pid=28859
- “Mile vs Transition” – a Perfect Informant in the Slushy Swamp of Serbian
politics? Social Identities. 13(5):597-610. September 2007.
- Cordon. Cineaste 32 (3):53-54. Summer 2007 (film review)
- Ex-Yugoslav Masculinities under Female Gaze, or Why Men Skin Cats, Beat
up Gays and Go to War. Nationalities Papers 34 (3):257-263. July
2006.
- Sueños dentro-fuera: algunos usos del sueño en la teoría social y la
investigación etnográfica (Dreams Inside-Out: Some Uses of Dream in Social
Theory and Ethnographic Inquiry). Revista de Antropología Social
15:139-171, 2006. Special issue on the “Tropology and the Figuration of
Social Thought and Action” (ed. by James W. Fernandez). http://www.ucm.es/BUCM/revistasBUC/portal/modulos.php?name=Revistas2_Historico&id=RASO&num=RASO060611
- Jelly, Slush and Red Mists: Poetics of Amorphous Substances in Serbian
Jeremiads of the 1990s, Anthropology and Humanism 25(2):1-15 (February
2001).
- The Wish to be a Jew: The Power of the Jewish Trope in The Yugoslav
Conflict, Cahiers de l'URMIS nº 6:69-84, March 2000. http://urmis.revues.org/docannexe329.html
- Telling Stories of Serbia: Native and Other Dilemmas on the Edge of
Chaos. In Hermine G. De Soto and Nora Dudwick, eds. Fieldwork Dilemmas:
Anthropologists in Postsocialist Societies. Madison: University of
Wisconsin Press, 2000.
- Review of Renata Jambresic Kirin and Maja Povrzanovic, eds.War,
Exile, Everyday Life: Cultural Perspectives (Zagreb: Institute of
Ethnology and Folklore Research). American Ethnologist, 1999
- Too Much Character, Too Little Kultur: Serbian Jeremiads 1994-1995,
Balkanologie 2 (2) :77-98, December 1998
- Violent Highlanders and Peaceful Lowlanders: Uses and Abuses of Ethno-Geography
in the Balkans from Versailles to Dayton, Special issue of Replika,
1997
- Stories Serbs Tell Themselves: Discourses on Identity and Destiny in
Serbia Since the Mid-1980s. Problems of Post-Communism, Vol.
44, No. 4, July-August 1997
In Serbian
- Something In-Between: Serbian Symbolic Geographies (Nesto izmedju: simbolicka
geografija Srbije). Filozofija i drustvo 18:73-110 (2001) http://147.91.230.48/ifdt/e_index
- The Meaning That Leaps to the Eye: Western Phantasies about the Chinese
Writing System (Serbian translation of English original). New Moment,
Beograd, 1995
- Famous Places in Japanese Poetry: Making of the National Landscape of
the Mind (Serbian translation of English original). Cultures of the
East, Belgrade, 28/1991
- Space, Time and Ritual (Prostor, vreme i ritual). Aletheia,
Belgrade, 1/1988
- What Heals in Psychotherapy (Sta je lekovito u psihoterapiji?). Psychology,
Belgrade, 3-4/1988.
- Guided Imagination: The European Tradition (Vodjena imaginacija-evropska
tradicija). Psychology, Belgrade, 3-4/1987.
- Why do the intentional communities fail? (Zasto propadaju komune?) Subcultures,
Belgrade, 3/1987.
Presentations
Tales of Mega Jury-Rigging: Trabi, Fica and Diana in Comparative Perspective.
Paper read at the 107th American Anthropological Association Annual
Meeting, San Francisco, 2008.
- Marina Abramovic and Mr. Wilson: 3-dimensional Beings Passing Through
Flatlands of Art, Anthropology, and Science. Paper read at Beyond
Text? Image:Voice::Sound:Object Synaesthetic and Sensory Practices in
Anthropology, June 30 - July 2, 2007, at Manchester, England.
- Conspiracy as Parody (or is it?): TV Series "Mile vs Transition"
in Serbian everyday life. Paper presented on the panel “Hieroglyphs of
postsocialist mundane: uncertainty, irony, and authenticity” at the 37th
AAASS National Convention, Salt Lake City, November 3-6, 2005.
- Panel discussant. Historical Aspects of Serbian Literature after the
War, at the 37th AAASS National Convention, Salt Lake City, November
3-6, 2005.
- Panel discussant. Representations of City in Art and Literature, at
the 3rd InASEA (International Association for Southeast European Anthropology)
Conference “Urban Life and Culture in Southeast Europe.” Belgrade, May
26-29, 2005.
- Panel discussant. Masculinities, State and Violence in the Former Yugoslavia,
at the ASN 10th Annual World Convention, Harriman Institute,
Columbia University, New York, April 14-16, 2005.
- Panel discussant. Rethinking Transition in Everyday Life: Cases from
the Former Yugoslavia, at the ASN 9th Annual World Convention,
Harriman Institute, Columbia University, New York, April 15-17, 2004.
- Serbian Turbo-Epics: Genres, Intertextuality and the Play of Ironies.
Public lecture at the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian
Studies, The University of California, Berkeley, March 17, 2004.
- Panel discussant. Violence and Marginality, at the 2003 Annual SOYUZ
Symposium, Amherst, Mass. February 7-8, 2003.
- Noble Criminals, Highlanders and Cryptomatriarchy: Poetics of Masculinity
in Serbia (and how to get at it). Paper read at The Centre for South-East
European Studies, SSEES/UCL Conference " Balkan Masculinities,
" London, June 8-9, 2002.
- Panel discussant. Global Discourses, Local Appropriations, at the
2002 Annual SOYUZ Symposium, Ann Arbor, Michigan, February 22-23,
2002.
- Panel discussant. Anthropological Approaches to the Crisis in the Balkans,
at The 13th Biennial Conference of Europeanists: " Europe in
the New Millennium: Enlarging, Experimenting, Evolving". Chicago,
March 14-16, 2002.
- Kosovo is the Most Expensive Serbian Word: Political Enchantment and
Milosevic's Rise to Power. AAA Meetings, San Francisco, 2000.
- Who are the Riders of Cultural Apocalypse? Biennial Seymour M. Logan
conference – Living with the Beast: Everyday Life in Authoritarian Serbia,
Clark University, Worcester, 2000.
- The Dream World Called Serbia: Irrational as Explanation in Recent Serbian
Feature Films, Soyuz Symposium – Views from Within: Ethnographic Perspectives
on Post-Communist Culture & Society, Columbia University, 2000.
- Belgrade Noble Criminals in Folklore, Performance, and Reality. Mershon
Center Performance and Democracy in Plural Societies Seminar, Ohio State
University, January 2000.
- From Kosovo to Jadovno via Kolubara: Three Cycles of National Narratives
in Serbia, Center for Democracy and Reconciliation in Southeast Europe
International Conference "National Memory in Southeastern Europe",
Halki, Greece, 1999.
- Transparency and Opacity of Authority: Conspiracy Theory Mongering in
Milosevic's Serbia, Law & Society Association Annual Meeting,
Chicago, 1999.
- "The War in Kosovo: Beyond Simple Moral Narratives " (with
Eric Gordy). Annual Meeting of the Central States Anthropological
Society, Chicago, 1999.
- Inverted Perspective and Serbian Peasants: The Byzantine Revival in
Serbia, Presented at Negotiating Boundaries: The Past in the Present
in South-Eastern Europe, Lampeter, Wales, 1998.
- Why Vote for Milosevic: Bewilderment, Tactics of Survival and the Non-synoptic
View, Annual Meeting of the Central States Anthropological Society,
Kansas City, 1998
- We are Gypsy People Cursed by Fate: Dealing with Balkan Stigma in Serbia
and Croatia, Second Conference of the Association for Balkan Anthropology,
Bucharest, Romania, 1997
- Ballads and Bullets in Bosnia: How Dangerous are the Epics of Mountain
Serbs? AAA Meeting, Washington, D.C., 1997.
- The Turkish Taint: Dealing with the Ottoman Legacy in Serbia, AAA
Meeting, Washington, D.C., 1995
