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Tourism sector in Montenegro, despite an abundance of crafts, has not recognized the importance of their valorisation. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to examine potential problems and weaknesses of craft sector, to explore artisans ' willingness to participate in sustainable tourism, and to provide solutions fo r entering the industry. The goal is to examine the state of craft sector, but also the attitude towards crafts valorization, to identify obstacles and create recommendations, in order to improve sustainable tourism development in Montenegro. The paper includes secondary and primary research, whereby the secondary research will be based on the data of available bibliographic units, while the primary research will be based on the processing of data collected through a survey, and refers to the analysis of Montenegrin craftsmen and employees in cultural institutions, regarding the current state of artisanal production. The results show a low participation of crafts in tourism, but also great interest fo r changes. The problems that artisans face are recognized, and the results show that there is lack of vision and strategy of development. However, there are great potentials. The research will contribute to the inclusion of small bussineses in tourism and valorisation of neglected cultural treasures, by analyzing the current situation, barriers and providing a solution.

In this paper, I analyze and compare Maria Kronfeldner’s and Tim Ingold’s views on the conceptual relationship between nature and culture. I show that despite the differences, their views remain close, particularly in terms of their integrative potential. The ultimate purpose of this examination is to lay the groundwork for further research on the problem of conceptual integration between sociocultural anthropology and evolutionary psychology. The paper comprises four main sections. First, I briefly explore the history of Darwinism to show how nature and culture were conceptualized within this framework. Second, I deal with Kronfeldner’s separationist stance and Ingold’s holistic perspective on the nature/ culture conceptual relationship. Third, I discuss the implications of their views on the choice of research heuristics in the sciences that study human nature and cultures. While I interpret Ingold as supporting methodological integration, Kronfelder argues for a version of integrative pluralism. Lastly, I provide an outlook for further discussions on conceptual integration and integrative pluralism.

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Although we cannot ignore the fact that the law in some way affects the family from the very beginning by determining who is considered a family member, what are their mutual rights and obligations, how certain relationships are formed and how they end, modern understanding of the family, however, necessarily implies respect for the extremely wide field of family, that is parental autonomy. Such an understanding could, in the most extreme form, result in an almost complete absence of responsibility of the state or the legal system for everything that happens in the family. In this sense, there are very weak formal legal obligations of the state in taking an active role in strengthening the family, and in practice there is virtually no involvement of the state in strengthening ties within the family before certain problems arise. On the other hand, if someone has the potential to protect the family and its members, then it is certainly the legal system. The protection of the family must not be reduced only to the question of how to do it, but also at what moment or whether the protection and development of healthy family relationships must be an issue to be addressed much earlier, even before the family is formed. In that sense, counseling or conversations with competent persons, can be of special importance. Also, although they are relatively foreign to our culture, the popularization of prenuptial agreements and presenting future spouses or common law partners with the possibilities of this agreement provides, can contribute to the avoidance of later property disputes. In this paper, the focus will, however, be on certain solutions that can help in situations where there is already a disturbance in the relationship between family members, that is between spouses or common law partners. Any attempt to calm the situation, or moderate and careful intervention in family relations, can primarily be achieved by insisting on certain alternative ways of resolving disputes. In addition, the existence of specialized judges, as well as lawyers, who would implement significant changes in the education system of future lawyers, but also in the field of practice, can also greatly contribute to this goal. Finally, certain changes in the field of family substantive law can also be of great importance. In that sense, this paper primarily focuses on certain solutions proposed in theory, their analysis in the context of Serbian legislation, as well as on possible further changes in domestic regulations. Namely, although some proposals have already found their place in the positive legislation of Serbia, it remains uncertain to what extent these provisions have been applied and whether they really contribute to ma intaining stable family relations in situations when relations are seriously disturbed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper deals with the Serbian culturally specific lexemes in the Parade film, which was presented to German audience in a dubbed version in that language. The aim of the research was to compare the two languages in the domain of cultural specificity, Serbian being the source language and German the target language. The analysis of the corpus showed that almost 75% of examples of Serbian culturally specific content were translated into German using the substitution strategy, implying the replacement or paraphrasing of the original reference, which shows that the two languages are not compatible in this respect. Names and nicknames were identified as a special category of the corpus, where the dominant strategies kept the original form of the original reference and the previously mentioned substitution. Other translation strategies listed in the paper as, namely, direct translation, omission, and hypernymy, had fewer occurrences; hyponymy, however, was a single strategy that was not observed in the analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The paper investigates the billboardization of city entrances and the impact of this phenomenon on the integrity of the city and its cultural identity. The initial hypothesis is that the accumulation of billboards within city entrances creates visual pollution that causes multiple problems regarding the city's culture, especially when it is located in a protected area. The paper strives to indicate the neglect of this space in the current urbanistic and socio-cultural narrative, and point out the newly formed region of reframed identity through the concept of the image of the city. The research moves through a case study of the Adriatic highway, the Jaz - Kotor section, namely the buffer zone of the protected Natural and Culturo-Historical Region of Kotor, in Montenegro. The aim of the paper is to point out the image of the city and to emphasize this urban space as a factor that disrupts the cultural identity of Kotor.

This paper briefly introduces the general attitudes that some of the most prominent Serbian writers formulated about war and trauma, as well as national and supranational self-understanding. In the second part of the paper, on the examples of contemporary novels, the author deals with the circular-evocative paradigm as one of the magistral choices in the literary treatment of the personal and/or collective war traumas. It is based on repetitive recognition of past events and their meanings in the present situations as a kind of collectively understandable, circular identity pattern.

This paper attempts to draw a rough sketch of several major, intertwined lines of Bulgarian cultural and social history that will have a long-term effect and influence on many processes in the next few decades. As a beginning, it looks into the early phase of the establishment of state socialism in Bulgaria, focusing simultaneously on the processes taking place in the theatre system as part of the larger new political and ideological project of industrialization and modernization and the social role prescribed to it in this intensely changing social landscape. At the same time, the paper follows the parallel introduction of two somewhat contradictory new visions about women’s role in society: giving them full election rights and encouraging them to enter the labor force, while simultaneously introducing measures like the “bachelor tax”, stimulating men and women to enter marriage, creating a network of policies and notions, and encouraging women to give birth to as many children as possible and to be the main caregivers in the household. That is why the foundation of this research is precisely the paradoxical situation in which women were in the socialist theatre and outside it.

Starting from the attitude that education and culture play a key role in the progress of every society, this paper deals with the affirmation of these activities through media. Media play an important role in the creation of public awareness and can contribute to the development of public interest and support towards education and culture, but also to their marginalization. The subject of this paper is therefore the presence of education and culture in the front pages of the daily press in Serbia. The goal of the paper is to investigate how much education and culture are present in the discourse of Serbian print media, based on the recording and classification of front page news. The research was conducted from November the 1st 2021 till October the 31st 2022, on daily basis. The analysis covered 10 daily newspapers: Politika, Danas and Dnevnik as quality newspaper, Večernje novosti, Blic and Nova as semi-tabloids and Informer, Kurir, Srpski telegraf and Alo! as tabloids. The results were presented in relation to time, newspapers and title tonality. A combination of qualitative (content analysis) and quantitative methods (descriptive statistical analysis of news frequency) was used. During the observed period, 405 titles were published - 274 about education and 131 about culture. The results of the dynamics and structure of reporting indicate insufficient affirmation of education and culture through print media, as well as the imbalance between neutral and polarized news and reduced level of regular reporting due to acute socio-political events. In order to remove the problem of marginalization of education and culture in social consciousness, systematic efforts in popularization of these topics and a more responsible media policy are needed, in which the professionalism, social responsibility and the enlightening role of the media would be set as priorities.

The Autonomous Province of Vojvodina represents a region characterized by expressed multi-ethnicity. This unique mixture of more than 30 different nations influenced the formation of a unique and recognizable cultural heritage. Gastronomy, as one of the most impressive components of cultural heritage, has a very important role in positioning a tourist destination on the global market. The subject of this paper is the views of hospitality workers of gastronomic heritage in Vojvodina and its possibilities to influence further development of tourism in the region. This paper aims to provide a better insight into the mindset of hospitality workers, as carriers of the hospitality offer, about the chances of multiculturalism in the region to become a differential force in the tourism market. The research included 508 respondents employed in all hospitality sectors. The results show that the respondents believe that ethnic minorities' dishes are insufficiently represented in offers of hospitality facilities, but that employees believe that they can be an advantage in creation a gastronomic heritage.

In the process of European integration, cultural integration as a social process is gaining more and more importance. The subject of this paper refers to the role of culture in the European integration of Serbia. The paper will examine the approach that is focused on cultural integration towards the process of European integration, precisely because of the inevitability of the need to consider culture within the framework of international integration. The cultural diversity of European Union member countries and candidates for membership points to the fact that the most important problem of European integration is to find out how to deal with cultural differences. It is precisely these differences that make the European Union a unique organization in the world. It is precisely the respect for cultural diversity that makes the European Union open to new members - current candidates for membership. The aim of this paper is to point out the great importance and role of culture in European integration.

The aim of this paper is to first of all determine, and later to explain the cause-and-effect relationship between culture and strategic leadership, as well as their influence on the results of international development projects (ID). In the first segment of the paper, we will explain the concept of international development projects and how they differ from profit projects. Then we will explain the differences between leaders and managers, in order to define as precisely as possible the functions and tasks that leaders have in the implementation of projects. We will also explain why it is important for the success of projects for leaders to understand different cultures. By considering at all these factors, with the help of the developed model, presented in this paper, we will show how culture affects the choice of leadership strategy and how it affects the critical success factors (KFU) as well as the outcome of international development projects.

In this paper, the author presents the overview of articles corresponding to the Ottoman era of Bosnia-Herzegovina's history, published in the Institute of History's journal Contributions.Given that the main goal was to collect articles from the mentioned period,this paper contains an overview and brief references to the same, not a critical analysis. In order to clarify certain events or contexts, the author used other relevant works.

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This study focuses on precedent phenomena from national films lines, TV series and video clips. This phenomenon has been thoroughly described by Russian researchers, hence this study has relied upon the research papers which analyze precedent phenomena in practical use in teaching Russian as a foreign language. The core of this research are the surveys which collected 25 lines from Serbian native speakers. This research paper analyzes the lines, their specific interpretation and practical usage in everyday conversations. The aim of this paper is to study their significance and practical usage in Serbian as a foreign language. Introducing lingua-cultural units in foreign language teaching, what precedent texts actually are, is an approach which enables the student's better insight into specific cultural entities reflected in a language he is learning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Culture is one of the most important features of the people. Based on cultural patterns, different societies are identified. The values of individual societies are also based on art, on the representation of which the degree of spirituality of a certain nation may depend. That is why awareness of art and culture is very important. As the media is marked as a force that has the power to influence the audience what to think about, as well as what to think, the media content about culture, the representation of reporting and the way in which culture is reported are of great importance. Reporting on culture should be one of the basic tasks of the media, bearing in mind their importance for the formation and preservation of cultural identities. One of the main goals in this paper is to determine whether, to what extent and in what way online media portals report on culture. The paper analyzes the section "culture" on the media portals of the dailies Danas, Novosti and Srbija Danas. According to the research, Danas took topics from culture seriously, and with its analytical approach and in-depth processing of certain topics, it showed that it attaches special importance to the "culture" section. The results also showed that Novosti reports on culture, while on the Srbija Danas portal, culture is marginalized. One of the most striking negative results is the centralization of culture to a large extent on all three online portals.

In the past hundred years, especially in the period after the Second World War, popular culture, and thus popular music, has become a vital part of the daily social life activities of individuals. Through the method of understanding and interpretation, the paper examines the processes of action and influence of popular music. The subject of the paper is to observe the relationships that are established between the individual as the bearer of the creative process in popular music and the social and cultural environment in which the creation process takes place and, in that sense, to determine the contribution of the scientific community in shedding light on these issues. The goal is to establish which factors and in what way they influence popular music, and what is the scope of individual creativity in the process of communication of this musical form with society. The opinion is that the individual creative personality of the author is a necessary, but not a sufficient condition for the creative process in popular music. The influences of society and culture, especially the mass media (radio, television and the Internet), in which it originates, are crucial factors that condition and / or mediate the creation of popular music. Thanks to interdisciplinary endeavours, primarily the synergy of musicology (especially critical musicology) and sociology, the knowledge about popular music has increased significantly in recent decades.

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This paper discusses how the war crisis affected the culture, especially on film as a specific cultural product and one of the most important segments of popular culture in general. In this regard, the paper considers the ways in which the war crisis shaped the film image of the war in Croatia during the 1990s. Special attention will be given to the cinematic image of the enemy, the hero, and the martyr. In addition to that, the paper discusses how the selected films represented the character of the war as well as who was marked as being responsible for the war. All these segments are considered through the prism of a wartime crisis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The underlying assumption of this paper is that over the last seven decades Serbia has been subject to anti-modernization processes that have reached their peak over the last two decades in the form of anti-urbanity. Consequently, the paper analyzes the sustainability of "standardized" rural-urban dichotomies which serve as the foundation of most models of cultural shaping of society. Resistance to the values of civil society, which is urban by its very nature, spreads through culture channels as both a cause and an effect. The paper attempts to posit an answer to the question of whether the "crisis of culture" emerges as a cause or as a consequence of anti-urban processes. Additionally, the paper determines the role of social actors in producing material and spiritual paradigms of anti-urbanity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The first part of the paper discusses the observation that the entire contemporary culture and society are deeply incorporated into the logic of capitalist accumulation. We argue that the current socio-economic crisis is used as a pretext for further subordination of all spheres of social life, including culture, to the market forces and the logic of profitability. The second part examines the ideological context and conditions that lead to the process of commodification of culture in the most highly developed European countries. The economic interests of the dominant class, technocratization, and the processes of social specialization, tend to reduce culture to the popularization of hegemonic trends and to limit the protective role of the state, which would disrupt the mechanisms of the free market. This theoretical background and experience of developed European countries is used as an interpretative framework for the analysis of the main trends in Serbia, which are presented in the third part of the paper. Similarly to the situation observed in other parts of Europe, the exposure of culture in Serbia to the market forces leads to continual reductions in the state expenditure for culture, to privatization and commodification in almost all areas of cultural life, and to greater flexibility and precariousness of the employment status of cultural workers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the articulation of the concept of military culture based on specific contextual factors that contribute to the internal dynamics and interrelations of society and the armed forces. This time, these factors pertain to the value system that forms the basis of national culture, professional ethos, and other elements of military ceremony and rules of conduct that affect group cohesion and a sense of community. In addition, the paper presents theories of civil-military relations that have been used to interpret and analyse some characteristics of military culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Throughout Serbian history there is a dominant cultural and political direction which points to the fact that in our culture there is one fatal flaw - valuing power over personality. The aim of this paper is to describe similar elements of both work and behaviour of a certain class of people, primarily the "intellectual elite", which prefers the highest economical and political positions. In addition, through parallelism of past and present similarities between semi-intellectuals (Jovanovic), "intelligence" (Reiss), and communist-capitalists as the new-old social phenomenon in the post-socialist society, the paper draws attention to a constant state and behaviour spanning over the nineteenth and the twentieth century with a tendency to proceed well into the next millennium. There is a noticeable phenomenon of the longevity of the same type of people (and their offspring), who, all of a sudden, as one promised future collapses, appear as the heralds of a new future. Therefore, this negative social phenomenon is the posed challenge for our national existence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper deals with history, culture and urban life portrayed through the life of streets. This topic is particularly interesting bearing in mind that this town is extremely significant cultural center in Montenegrin framework. Its story has mostly been written informally, in a street or a café. It covers the period from late XIX century until the end of XX century. The text represents a particular interrelation between certain urbanity characteristics which are connected to different aspects of life and work. It also deals with relationships between streets and bohemian lifestyle of this town, literary inspirations, heroic figures and certain peculiar persons who found their place in the spirit of a place of turbulent history and rich culture. Few monuments, being important stops and symbols of Nikšić past, have also been described. Abundance of quotations and references permeate through the text, covering historical, scientific and theoretical sources and thus allowing us to have an integral overview on the life of a street in this town. The paper belongs to the field of urban culture research's and encompasses different kinds of sources - from scientific papers and literary works and travelogues to newspapers articles.

The paper discusses five monographs by Jovan Deretić, which the author considers "accompanying books" of his History of Serbian Literature. These are: Marko Kraljević's riddle - about the nature of historicity in Serbian folk epics, The path of Serbian literature - identity, borders, aspirations, Poetics of Serbian literature, Serbian folk epics and Etudes from old Serbian literature. In this paper, we analyze them as a contribution to the interpretation of the History of Serbian Literature, the most comprehensive history of literature in Serbian science to the extent that they are important as proof of Deretić's great synthesis and consideration of the function of literary criticism in Serbian culture. An important definition of the "accompanying books" is provided by the author in their prefaces and notes. It is summarized in the theoretical and applied level in the process of considering important issues of Serbian literary history: periodization and classification of literature, poetic or historical determinants and the significance of particular epochs, writers, or genres. A review of the critical evaluation of Serbian literature and historical and cultural heritage in the accompanying books shows that Deretić pragmatized his scientific thought and reaffirmed literary criticism, directing it "for the benefit of the people". This means that he gave it a practical and social function and intended it "for a distant generation".

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The subject of this paper is consideration of role and importance of culture and creative industries in the process of local and regional economic development. The paper argues that the aforementioned activities, apart from being the segment of the overall economic structure, and as such, representing the (direct) source of gross domestic product, also have a strong indirect influence on the development of business activities in local communities, affecting positively the quality of the business environment. Special emphasis is given to the contribution of culture to the development of rural areas (the concept of "creative village"). New activities in the field of culture and creative industries, based on private initiative, entrepreneurship and talents of groups and individuals, should be "complement" and "magnet" for more profitable business to locate out of "congested" and expensive urban centers. To achieve this, the rural areas have to get, first of all, a well-deserved role in the national development strategy in terms of working and life conditions (the contents of culture, recreation, further education, vacation, etc). The question is also whether the culture and creative industries can be used only in developed countries, or in less developed and underdeveloped countries as well? Economic development based on the products that come from cultural activities will continue to be promoted in developed countries where this approach has been created (USA, EU). However, there are many opportunities that lie ahead of the less developed and underdeveloped countries in the field of engagement of culture and cultural resources in the process of economic growth, primarily through exploiting possibilities of traditional sector and rich cultural heritage. The convergence between economics and culture is our reality, which opens up new possibilities for creators of development policies at both local and regional level, in their efforts to increase the level of income and employment, and improve living standards and living and working conditions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper will focus on the representations of identity, self, fantasy and transformation in seemingly incomparable novels and films. The theoretical background of the analysis is partly based on Laura Mulvey's theory of "male gaze", along with various critical analyses of other processes that radically change the concept of identity, love, emotion, and desire in the modern world. The novel The Enchanted April and the film Her show that the gap dividing the imaginary self and the real world narrows as the protagonists tread into beautiful landscapes as imaginary territories that bring miraculous change of personalities and relationships. In this paper, Theodore Twombly and Lady Caroline Dester are seen primarily as fugitives from their respective realities of the year 2025 and the 1920's: while Theodore seeks solace in connecting to a computer operating system designed to function as a flawless emotional partner, Caroline retreats to a garden of a fascinating mansion San Salvatore in order to find her priorities and define her own identity, with the firm intention to become more than a beautiful object of male gaze and desire. The paper will explore the examples of hunger for intimacy in the modern age, as well as the human need to form romantic obsessive attachments to inanimate objects, places and landscapes.

The process of globalization has encompassed all segments of social production and existence. Tourism has contributed to the globalization to a large degree by networking the whole society and by increasing its mobility, implying that it represents a complementary phenomenon. This paper discussed basic relations between tourism with working and leisure time as well as with the whole social everyday life but also a change of focus in the development of sociological thought in between modern and postmodern society. The focus of the paper is on the analysis of social networks Facebook and Instagram, which have become a part of everyday social experience during the second decade of this century and due to incerasing usage of smartphones. The aim of the paper is to point out the relation between everyday social activity and globalization process as well as their consequences for the future development of tourism through consideration of virtual social communities. Тhe results of the paper indicate that globalization is a two-way process which is contributed by the daily activities of social individuals to a large degree, but also that the Internet should be understood as an auxiliary tool, not as a future ground for obtaining touristic experiences.

This paper surveys some of the challenges facing Serbia in reconstructing elements of its national identity following the break-up of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. Unlike most of the other republics that comprised the federation, Serbia fought to maintain the Yugoslav federation, and so to that extent was the least nationalist of the republics at the beginning of the 1990s. However, as Yugoslavia disintegrated in that decade, Serbia was forced to reconstruct its identity in ways that reflected the unprecedented circumstances it was confronting. This paper explores elements of the ongoing process of Serbia’s identity-reconstruction since the 1990s, focussing on notions of hybridised national identity, the influence of historical tropes, and the tensions between cultural homogeneity and the subversive effects of globalisation on this identity. What emerges from this study is that contemporary Serbian national identity has consequently become a dynamic and evolving construct, and is continually being redefined as it responds to internal tensions and external pressures.