Biljana Anđelković
Academic title: PhD
Research position: Research Associate
Research interests: anthropology of religion, anthropology of pilgrimage, anthropology of prisons, and intangible cultural heritage.
Education/qualifications
2021 Research Associate, Institute of Ethnography SASA
2021 PhD in Ethnology and Anthropology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade
2011 MA in Ethnology and Anthropology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade
2010 curator - ethnologist
2008 BA in Ethnology and Anthropology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade
Affiliation
2018 Institute of Ethnography SASA, Belgrade
Projects
2022 Project Research and Documentation of Stories about the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Jadar (Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Serbia)
2021-2022 Ecclesiastical and Religious Practices of Orthodox Believers in Serbia: Anthropological Research (Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Serbia)
2018-2019 Project Identity Strategy: Contemporary Culture and Religiosity (MPNT of the Republic of Serbia 177028).
International conferences, scientific gatherings and study trips
2022 International scientific conference Contemporary Serbian Folkloristics XII, Tršić
2022 Conference of the Institute of Ethnography SASA - Anthropology of/in the future, Viminacium
2021 International scientific conference Contemporary Serbian Folkloristics XI, Tršić
2021 International scientific conference Contemporary Serbian Folkloristics X, Topola
2020 International scientific conference Contemporary Serbian Folkloristics IX, Tršić
2019 XX International Symposium on Balkan Folklore Folkloristics: Challenges and Perspectives, Skopje, Macedonia
2017 Conference of the Ethnographic Institute SANU - Retrospectives and Perspectives of Ethnology and Anthropology, Open Air Museum "Staro selo" Sirogojno
2016 8th InASEA Congress Balkan Life Courses: Family, Childhood, Youth, and Old Age in Southeast Europe, Sofia, Bulgaria
Exhibitions
2009 We Used to Eat Champita, National Museum of Kruševac
Articles:
2022 "Dressing at the Liturgy: The Example of the Serbian Orthodox Church". Bulletin of the Institute of Ethnography SASA LXX(1): 77˗100.
2022 "Wine Production in Koporin Monastery: 'Return to Tradition' and/or 'Entering the Market'". In Contemporary Serbian Folkloristics X, eds. Jelena Jovanović and Branko Zlatković, 329-344. Belgrade - Topola: Association of Folklorists of Serbia, University Library "Svetozar Marković", Cultural Center Topola.
2021 (Anđelković, Biljana & Saša Nedeljković) "The Epidemic as a Regulator of Interpersonal Relationships: The Impact of 'Combined’ Schooling on the Relationship Among Primary School Students". Bulletin of the Institute of Ethnography SASA LXIX(3): 625–639.
2020 "Ethnicity and Pilgrimage: An Example of a Pilgrimage to the Monasteries of the Pirot District". In Eastern Serbia and Essential Questions from Serbian past and present - archaeology, ethnology and related sciences, Ethno-cultural Annals XXIII, eds. Vojislav Filipović and Ivica Todorović, 91˗105. Svrljig: Center for tourism, culture and sport.
2019 "Some basic factors of pilgrimage in contemporary Serbia". In Perspectives of Anthropological Research in South-East Europe, eds. Marina Martynova and Ivana Bašić, 207-229. Belgrade-Moscow: The Institute for Ethnology "N. N. Mikluho-Maklaj" of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Institute of Ethnography of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
2019 "The Role of Religious Tourism in Creating a "Hierarchy" of Monasteries Among Devotees of the Serbian Orthodox Church. Bulletin of the Institute of Ethnography SASA 67(2): 421-443.
2019 "Resurrection of Christ Monastery Between Religious and Secular Discourses". In Ethno-cultural Annals XXII: The Serbian East Once and Today: Archeology, Ethnology, History and Linguistics, eds. Vojislav Filipović and Ivica Todorović, 87-102. Svrljig: Center for tourism, culture and sport.
2015 "Hegemonic Masculinity in Men's Prisons in Serbia". Anthropology 15(1): 49-70.
2014 "Childhood in Kruševac and its Surroundings at the End of the 19th and in the First Half of the 20th Century: Analysis of the Ethnographic Fund of the National Museum of Kruševac ". Kruševac Collection 16: 138-161.
Reviews:
2019 Gordana Blagojević (ed.) – The Feast of Saint George: Different Cultural Contexts and Traditions, Serbian ethnological and Anthropological Society and The Institute of Ethnography of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 2018. Papers in Etnology and Anthropology no. 30, (n.s.) 19: 171-174.
2019 Life from Copper: Ethnographic Research of Mining in Bor - Živka Romelić "On the Mining Culture in Bor: Tradition as an Incentive". In the Bulletin of the Institute of Ethnography SASA 67(1): 205-207.
2018 Živka Romelić/Zorica Simić, Holy Waters and Other Cult Places in the Kruševac area, National Museum of Kruševac, Kruševac. Papers in Etnology and Anthropology No. 29 n.s. No. 18/2018: 147-149.
2015 Power in Powerlessness - Saša Nedeljković "Power and Powerlessness: The Challenges of Ethnic and National Identification of Minority Groups in Postsocialist Serbia". Common Ground Publishing, Champaign (Illinois, USA). In Issues in Ethnology and Anthropology 10(4):1031–1034.