Denis Ermolin | Russian academy of sciences, Peter the Great Museum of Antropology and Ethnography (original) (raw)
Papers by Denis Ermolin
Colloquia Humanistica, 2021
Multiple Voices of the Past: (Hi)stories and Memories from the Ethnically Mixed Neighbourhoods in... more Multiple Voices of the Past: (Hi)stories and Memories from the Ethnically Mixed Neighbourhoods in PristinaUsing the Bakhtinian term heteroglossia developed by Andrea L. Smith, this article analyses the multiple and sometimes internally contradictory narratives, memories and stereotypes articulated in everyday talk about the common past in Pristina that could be heard nowadays in post-war Kosovo (mostly among Kosovo Albanians) and among the people who used to live in Kosovo prior to 1999 (mostly Kosovo Serbs) and then left the country for Serbia (Belgrade, Niš, etc.) or went abroad. The study explores the existing memories, images and stereotypes shared among the current and former citizens of Pristina (Kosovo) – both Albanians and Serbs – about each other and their city. It relies on the basic tools of cultural memory studies and applies them to the analysis of existing local narratives in the present-day Albanian and Serbian communities that used to be parts of one and the same cit...
Antropologicheskij forum
The article explores the social and spatial phenomena in the development of three cities on the t... more The article explores the social and spatial phenomena in the development of three cities on the territory of Kosovo (and Metohija) — Pristina, Prizren and (Kosovska) Mitrovica in the history of the region in the 20th and 21st centuries. All these cities used to contain Turkish, Albanian, Serbian (and more broadly Slavic-speaking), Jewish and Gypsy quarters with shared urban (as opposed to rural) identities. The paper argues is that the interweaving (sometimes even conflicting) of two vectors — “inner logic” and “the logic of the victor” — forms the image of the city, thereby largely determining the everyday life and behavioral models of its inhabitants. Moreover, the evolving urban space itself can be viewed as an actor segmenting various social, ethnic and confessional communities. Thus, the author poses the following questions: What are the historical prerequisites for the transformations of the sociocultural landscape of the cities of Kosovo at the turn of the XX–XXI centuries? W...
Антропологический форум || ANTROPOLOGICHESKIJ FORUM, 2019
This article analyses the different strategies of representation of urban space by means of postc... more This article analyses the different strategies of representation of urban
space by means of postcards in different historical periods and within various political entities (on the example of the city of Pristina — the capital of the partially recognized Republic of Kosovo). The author investigates the production and functioning of souvenirs and graphic products (tourist maps, travel guides, bank notes, etc.) as an instrument of symbolic nation-building that is indeed a product of the political regime of a particular state, which pursues certain social and culturally oriented political goals. This study shows that the choice of sites and objects for public representation by means of postcards has been made deliberately, and supports an official ideological message in order to create a clear-cut and official image of the city. Visual and verbal texts of postcards illustrate the political and cultural orientations of the states that have produced those souvenirs. We see it in the choice of the language(-s) and alphabets. Thus, the author has attempted to incorporate the industry of production and existence of a postcard into a phenomenon that social theory calls banal nationalism.
Social Anthropology, 2015
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](This paper negotiates the transformations in urban space of Pristina (Kosovo / Serbia) from 1951–... more This paper negotiates the transformations in urban space of Pristina (Kosovo / Serbia) from 1951–1985 and their ensuing aftermath. The main analysis focuses on changes in the cultural landscape and their role in creating and maintaining ideological discourses during different periods of the 20th and 21st centuries. As a hypothesis, I propose the idea that the large-scaled reorganisation of the urban public space that took place from 1951–1985 resulted in cultural division of the city (the opposition between the western and the developed southern and central districts versus the oriental and, later on, ruralised northern area of the city). Public and private spaces in the southern and central districts of Pristina were fully included in the process of Socialist urbanization. It was there that the main Yugoslav slogan “Brotherhood and Unity” was successively realized by means of architecture and urban planning. The newly built theatre,
library, university, stadium, gym, schools, hospitals, department stores, etc. could be regarded as instruments of social control that functioned to synchronise public activity. At the same time, such large-scale urban projects were never realized in the northern part of the city, which remained in many ways oriental. Moreover, I claim that Pristina’s divided nature has added to the ethnic tensions between Serbs and Albanians, which led to the mass protest actions and war in Kosovo, since the northern districts were initially used as a reliable platform for parallel structures of education and healthcare after 1990.
The paper is devoted to studying current strategies in the transformation of cultural landscape i... more The paper is devoted to studying current strategies in the transformation of cultural landscape in postwar Kosovo. I regard cultural landscape, i.e. a piece of Earth’s surface deliberately shaped by man, as an extension of the so-called socially constructed reality (Berger and Luckmann, 1966). In some cases this symbolization is a strategic part of a nation-building project, or just a way to declare one’s own presence, identity, or affiliation. The creation of new heroes is one of the initial steps within the strategies of a nation-building process, as it forms an essential prerequisite for the feeling of a common and shared history. This article analyses the spectrum of personalities symbolically welcomed in Kosovo since the 1990s. The Republic of Kosovo is de jure a multiethnic society consisting of Albanian, Serbian, and other communities, and is presented as such to the international community. However, the current strategies of symbolic nation-building deeply contradict the declared aspirations to
build a common state and national identity among all of the peoples living in Kosovo. My aim is to negotiate the strategies of memorialization in postwar Kosovo with a focus on this balancing between civic (as desired) and ethnic (as de facto realized) models of nation-building. The data for the study were collected during several fieldwork trips in Kosovo (2010-2014).
The article is devoted to the problem of ethno-confessional situation and ethno-cultural stereoty... more The article is devoted to the problem of ethno-confessional situation and ethno-cultural stereotypes among the descendants of Balkan colonists (Albanians, Bulgarians, Gagauzians), that live in two multi-ethnic regions of Southern Ukraine – in Budjak and Northern Priazovje. As a specific religious practice of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century that influenced the social status of its participants, we analyze the pilgrimage to the Holy Land (so-called hajijstvo). Special attention is paid to the analysis of ethnic situation, ethnonyms and stereotypes in the village of Karakurt (the present-day name – Zhovtnevoe) in Odessa region. As ethnic “others”, Balkan population of these regions has traditionally regarded Jews and Gypsies, and till the beginning of the 19th century – Russians, impelled contacts with whom were especially intensified in this period.
Дугушина А.С., Ермолин Д.С., Морозова М.С. ЭТНОГРАФИЧЕСКИЕ НАБЛЮДЕНИЯ В ОБЛАСТИ ГОРА (АЛБАНИЯ, КОСОВО): по материалам экспедиции 2011 г.
Радловский сборник: Научные исследования и музейные проекты МАЭ РАН в 2012 г. Санкт-Петербург: МАЭ РАН, 2013.
На протяжении вот уже почти пятнадцати лет сотрудники МАЭ РАН совместно с коллегами из СПбГУ и ИЛ... more На протяжении вот уже почти пятнадцати лет сотрудники МАЭ РАН совместно с коллегами из СПбГУ и ИЛИ РАН ведут полевую этнографическую и этнолингвистическую работу на территории Украины: в Буджаке (совр. Одесская обл.) и в Северном Приазовье (Запорожская, Донецкая обл.). В этих двух полиэтничных регионах компактно проживают потомки «задунайских» колонистов (албанцев, болгар, гагаузов), чье санкционированное Российским правительством переселенческое движение с Балкан в приграничные районы Российской империи и последующее освоение пустующих степных районов происходило в период с конца XVIII по вторую половину XIX в.
Балканская картина мира sub specie пяти человеческих чувств. (Балканские чтения 12. Тезисы и материалы), Mar 2013
В: Балканская картина мира sub specie пяти человеческих чувств. Редколл.: М.М. Макарцев, И.А. Сед... more В: Балканская картина мира sub specie пяти человеческих чувств. Редколл.: М.М. Макарцев, И.А. Седакова, Т.В. Цивьян. -М., 2013. С. 33 -40. (Балканские чтения 12. Тезисы и материалы.) Д.С. Ермолин (МАЭ РАН, Санкт-Петербург) Визуальная репрезентация кладбищ на карте города (на примере Приштины) [33]
Материалы полевых исследований МАЭ РАН. Вып. 11., 2011
Материалы полевых исследований МАЭ РАН. Вып. 12., 2012
Вестник ЛГУ им. А.С. Пушкина. Том №4 История, 2011
anthropologie.kunstkamera.ru
Антропологический форум, 2011
anthropologie.kunstkamera.ru
Colloquia Humanistica, 2021
Multiple Voices of the Past: (Hi)stories and Memories from the Ethnically Mixed Neighbourhoods in... more Multiple Voices of the Past: (Hi)stories and Memories from the Ethnically Mixed Neighbourhoods in PristinaUsing the Bakhtinian term heteroglossia developed by Andrea L. Smith, this article analyses the multiple and sometimes internally contradictory narratives, memories and stereotypes articulated in everyday talk about the common past in Pristina that could be heard nowadays in post-war Kosovo (mostly among Kosovo Albanians) and among the people who used to live in Kosovo prior to 1999 (mostly Kosovo Serbs) and then left the country for Serbia (Belgrade, Niš, etc.) or went abroad. The study explores the existing memories, images and stereotypes shared among the current and former citizens of Pristina (Kosovo) – both Albanians and Serbs – about each other and their city. It relies on the basic tools of cultural memory studies and applies them to the analysis of existing local narratives in the present-day Albanian and Serbian communities that used to be parts of one and the same cit...
Antropologicheskij forum
The article explores the social and spatial phenomena in the development of three cities on the t... more The article explores the social and spatial phenomena in the development of three cities on the territory of Kosovo (and Metohija) — Pristina, Prizren and (Kosovska) Mitrovica in the history of the region in the 20th and 21st centuries. All these cities used to contain Turkish, Albanian, Serbian (and more broadly Slavic-speaking), Jewish and Gypsy quarters with shared urban (as opposed to rural) identities. The paper argues is that the interweaving (sometimes even conflicting) of two vectors — “inner logic” and “the logic of the victor” — forms the image of the city, thereby largely determining the everyday life and behavioral models of its inhabitants. Moreover, the evolving urban space itself can be viewed as an actor segmenting various social, ethnic and confessional communities. Thus, the author poses the following questions: What are the historical prerequisites for the transformations of the sociocultural landscape of the cities of Kosovo at the turn of the XX–XXI centuries? W...
Антропологический форум || ANTROPOLOGICHESKIJ FORUM, 2019
This article analyses the different strategies of representation of urban space by means of postc... more This article analyses the different strategies of representation of urban
space by means of postcards in different historical periods and within various political entities (on the example of the city of Pristina — the capital of the partially recognized Republic of Kosovo). The author investigates the production and functioning of souvenirs and graphic products (tourist maps, travel guides, bank notes, etc.) as an instrument of symbolic nation-building that is indeed a product of the political regime of a particular state, which pursues certain social and culturally oriented political goals. This study shows that the choice of sites and objects for public representation by means of postcards has been made deliberately, and supports an official ideological message in order to create a clear-cut and official image of the city. Visual and verbal texts of postcards illustrate the political and cultural orientations of the states that have produced those souvenirs. We see it in the choice of the language(-s) and alphabets. Thus, the author has attempted to incorporate the industry of production and existence of a postcard into a phenomenon that social theory calls banal nationalism.
Social Anthropology, 2015
This paper negotiates the transformations in urban space of Pristina (Kosovo / Serbia) from 1951–... more This paper negotiates the transformations in urban space of Pristina (Kosovo / Serbia) from 1951–1985 and their ensuing aftermath. The main analysis focuses on changes in the cultural landscape and their role in creating and maintaining ideological discourses during different periods of the 20th and 21st centuries. As a hypothesis, I propose the idea that the large-scaled reorganisation of the urban public space that took place from 1951–1985 resulted in cultural division of the city (the opposition between the western and the developed southern and central districts versus the oriental and, later on, ruralised northern area of the city). Public and private spaces in the southern and central districts of Pristina were fully included in the process of Socialist urbanization. It was there that the main Yugoslav slogan “Brotherhood and Unity” was successively realized by means of architecture and urban planning. The newly built theatre,
library, university, stadium, gym, schools, hospitals, department stores, etc. could be regarded as instruments of social control that functioned to synchronise public activity. At the same time, such large-scale urban projects were never realized in the northern part of the city, which remained in many ways oriental. Moreover, I claim that Pristina’s divided nature has added to the ethnic tensions between Serbs and Albanians, which led to the mass protest actions and war in Kosovo, since the northern districts were initially used as a reliable platform for parallel structures of education and healthcare after 1990.
The paper is devoted to studying current strategies in the transformation of cultural landscape i... more The paper is devoted to studying current strategies in the transformation of cultural landscape in postwar Kosovo. I regard cultural landscape, i.e. a piece of Earth’s surface deliberately shaped by man, as an extension of the so-called socially constructed reality (Berger and Luckmann, 1966). In some cases this symbolization is a strategic part of a nation-building project, or just a way to declare one’s own presence, identity, or affiliation. The creation of new heroes is one of the initial steps within the strategies of a nation-building process, as it forms an essential prerequisite for the feeling of a common and shared history. This article analyses the spectrum of personalities symbolically welcomed in Kosovo since the 1990s. The Republic of Kosovo is de jure a multiethnic society consisting of Albanian, Serbian, and other communities, and is presented as such to the international community. However, the current strategies of symbolic nation-building deeply contradict the declared aspirations to
build a common state and national identity among all of the peoples living in Kosovo. My aim is to negotiate the strategies of memorialization in postwar Kosovo with a focus on this balancing between civic (as desired) and ethnic (as de facto realized) models of nation-building. The data for the study were collected during several fieldwork trips in Kosovo (2010-2014).
The article is devoted to the problem of ethno-confessional situation and ethno-cultural stereoty... more The article is devoted to the problem of ethno-confessional situation and ethno-cultural stereotypes among the descendants of Balkan colonists (Albanians, Bulgarians, Gagauzians), that live in two multi-ethnic regions of Southern Ukraine – in Budjak and Northern Priazovje. As a specific religious practice of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century that influenced the social status of its participants, we analyze the pilgrimage to the Holy Land (so-called hajijstvo). Special attention is paid to the analysis of ethnic situation, ethnonyms and stereotypes in the village of Karakurt (the present-day name – Zhovtnevoe) in Odessa region. As ethnic “others”, Balkan population of these regions has traditionally regarded Jews and Gypsies, and till the beginning of the 19th century – Russians, impelled contacts with whom were especially intensified in this period.
Дугушина А.С., Ермолин Д.С., Морозова М.С. ЭТНОГРАФИЧЕСКИЕ НАБЛЮДЕНИЯ В ОБЛАСТИ ГОРА (АЛБАНИЯ, КОСОВО): по материалам экспедиции 2011 г.
Радловский сборник: Научные исследования и музейные проекты МАЭ РАН в 2012 г. Санкт-Петербург: МАЭ РАН, 2013.
На протяжении вот уже почти пятнадцати лет сотрудники МАЭ РАН совместно с коллегами из СПбГУ и ИЛ... more На протяжении вот уже почти пятнадцати лет сотрудники МАЭ РАН совместно с коллегами из СПбГУ и ИЛИ РАН ведут полевую этнографическую и этнолингвистическую работу на территории Украины: в Буджаке (совр. Одесская обл.) и в Северном Приазовье (Запорожская, Донецкая обл.). В этих двух полиэтничных регионах компактно проживают потомки «задунайских» колонистов (албанцев, болгар, гагаузов), чье санкционированное Российским правительством переселенческое движение с Балкан в приграничные районы Российской империи и последующее освоение пустующих степных районов происходило в период с конца XVIII по вторую половину XIX в.
Балканская картина мира sub specie пяти человеческих чувств. (Балканские чтения 12. Тезисы и материалы), Mar 2013
В: Балканская картина мира sub specie пяти человеческих чувств. Редколл.: М.М. Макарцев, И.А. Сед... more В: Балканская картина мира sub specie пяти человеческих чувств. Редколл.: М.М. Макарцев, И.А. Седакова, Т.В. Цивьян. -М., 2013. С. 33 -40. (Балканские чтения 12. Тезисы и материалы.) Д.С. Ермолин (МАЭ РАН, Санкт-Петербург) Визуальная репрезентация кладбищ на карте города (на примере Приштины) [33]
Материалы полевых исследований МАЭ РАН. Вып. 11., 2011
Материалы полевых исследований МАЭ РАН. Вып. 12., 2012
Вестник ЛГУ им. А.С. Пушкина. Том №4 История, 2011
anthropologie.kunstkamera.ru
Антропологический форум, 2011
anthropologie.kunstkamera.ru