Biljana Anđelković

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Biljana Anđelković

Biljana Anđelković

Academic title: PhD

Research position: Senior Research Associate

Research interests: anthropology of religion, anthropology of pilgrimage, anthropology of prisons, and intangible cultural heritage.

Email: biljana.andjelkovic@ei.sanu.ac.rs

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:

  • 2025. Anđelković, Biljana. „Svadba kao ogledalo društvenih promena: kontinuitet i transformacija u svadbenim običajima Bošnjaka u Novom Pazaru“. Folkloristika 10/2: 107-148.
  • 2025. Anđelković, Biljana, Marta Stojić Mitrović i Milan Tomašević. „Uloga i značaj duhovnika: narativi vernika Srpske pravoslavne crkve“. Glasnik EI SANU 73 (3): 267-310.
  • 2025. Nedeljković, Saša i Biljana Anđelković. „Buduća starost: anticipacija sopstvene starosti kod mladih u Srbiji“. Etnoantropološki problemi 20(4): 1139-1160.
  • 2025. „Održivost običaja kroz religijsku mobilizaciju lokalne zajednice: primer prilaganja ratarskih sveća manastiru Tronoša“. Baština 67: 253-276.
  • 2025. „Birjan svadbe“: ukidanje alkohola na svadbenim proslavama Bošnjaka u Novom Pazaru. Antropologija 25 (3): 19–42.
  • 2024. (Nedeljković, Saša i Biljana Anđelković) „Seoska samouprava u periodu 1944-1955 u antropološkoj perspektivi: primer sela Dobri Do“. Etnološko-antropološki problemi 19 (2): 503-528.
  • 2023. „From a Local Sanctuary to the „Ostrog of Djerdap“: The role of Monasticism in Creating the Most Visited Pilgrimage Destination in Serbia“. In Pilgrimage in the Christian Balkan World: The path to touch the sacred and holy, ed. by Dorina Dragnea, Emmanouil Ger. Varvounis, Evelyn Reuter, Petko Hristov and Susan Sorek, 239-255. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers.
  • 2023. „Miloš Obilić u narodnom i manastirskom predanju u okolini Golupca“. U Savremena srpska folkloristika XII, ur. Danijela Petković i Dejan Ajdačić, 277-294. Beograd: Udruženje folklorista Srbije, Univerzitetska biblioteka „Svetozar Marković”, Komisija za folkloristiku Međunarodnog komiteta slavista – Loznica: Centar za kulturu „Vuk Karadžić“ – Tršić: Naučno obrazovno kulturni centar „Vuk Karadžić“.
  • 2023. „Molitva u selu Dobri Do: Prilog proučavanju nematerijalnog kulturnog nasleđa pirotskog kraja“. U Etno-kulturološki zbornik za proučavanje kulture istočne Srbije i susednih oblasti XXVI, ur. Vojislav Filipović i Ivica Todorović, 263-284. Svrljig: Centar za turizam, kulturu i sport.
  • 2023. „Uticaj crkvenog pravoslavlja na nematerijalno kulturno nasleđe: redukcija, transformacija i gubljenje narodnih običaja“. Zbornik Matice srpske za društvene nauke 188 (4/2023): 587-606.
  • 2022 „Odevanje vernika na liturgiji: primer Srpske pravoslavne crkve“. Glasnik EI SANU LXX(1):77˗100.
  • 2022 „Proizvodnja vina u manastiru Koporin: 'Povratak tradiciji' i/ili 'odlazak na tržište'“. U Savremena srpska folkloristika X, ur. Jelena Jovanović i Branko Zlatković, 329-344. Beograd – Topola: Udruženje folklorista Srbije, Univerzitetska biblioteka „Svetozar Marković”, Kulturni centar Topola.
  • 2021 (Anđelković, Biljana i Saša Nedeljković) „Epidemija kao regulator interpersonalnih odnosa: uticaj kombinovane nastave na odnos između učenika osnovne škole“. Glasnik EI SANU LXIX(3): 625–639.
  • 2020 „Etnicitet i hodočašće: primer pokloničkog putovanja u manastire pirotskog kraja“. U Istočna Srbija i važna pitanja iz srpske prošlosti i savremenosti – arheologija, etnologija i srodne nauke, Etno-kulturološki zbornik XXIII, urednici Vojislav Filipović i Ivica Todorović, 91˗105. Svrljig: Centar za turizam, kulturu i 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 „ Uloga verskog turizma u stvaranju „hijerarhije“ manastira kod poklonika Srpske pravoslavne crkve. Glasnik EI SANU 2019 (2): 421-443.
  • 2019 „Manastir Vaskresenje Hristovo između religijskih i sekularnih diskursa“. U Etno-kulturološki zbornik XXII: Srpski istok nekad i danas: arheologija, etnologija, istorija i lingvistika, ur. Vojislav Filipović i Ivica Todorović, 87-102. Svrljig: Centar za turizam, kulturu i sport.
  • 2015 „Hegemoni maskulinitet u muškim zatvorima u Srbiji“. Antropologija 15(1): 49-70.
  • 2014 „Detinjstvo u Kruševcu i okolini krajem 19. i u prvoj polovini 20. veka: analiza etnološkog fonda Narodnog muzeja Kruševac“. Kruševački Zbornik 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.