This book presents interdisciplinary research carried out on the Roman sites of pottery workshops active within the coastal area of the province of Dalmatia as well as on material recovered during ...the excavations.
Cyclops Marinkovic, Ranko; Elias-Bursac, Ellen; Stojiljkovic, Vlada
11/2010
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In his semiautobiographical novel,Cyclops, Croatian writer Ranko Marinkovic recounts the adventures of young theater critic Melkior Tresic, an archetypal antihero who decides to starve himself to ...avoid fighting in the front lines of World War II. As he wanders the streets of Zagreb in a near-hallucinatory state of paranoia and malnourishment, Melkior encounters a colorful circus of characters-fortune-tellers, shamans, actors, prostitutes, bohemians, and café intellectuals-all living in a fragile dream of a society about to be changed forever.
A seminal work of postwar Eastern European literature,Cyclopsreveals a little-known perspective on World War II from within the former Yugoslavia, one that has never before been available to an English-speaking audience. Vlada Stojiljkovic's able translation, improved by Ellen Elias-Bursac's insightful editing, preserves the striking brilliance of this riotously funny and densely allusive text. Along Melkior's journeyCyclopssatirizes both the delusions of the righteous military officials who feed the national bloodlust as well as the wayward intellectuals who believe themselves to be above the unpleasant realities of international conflict. Through Stojiljkovic's clear-eyed translation, Melkior's peregrinations reveal how history happens and how the individual consciousness is swept up in the tide of political events, and this is accomplished in a mode that will resonate with readers of Charles Simic, Aleksandr Hemon, and Kundera.
Since childhood, Tony Fabijančić has travelled frequently to Yugoslavia and Croatia, the homeland of his father. He spent time with his peasant family in the village of Srebrnjak in the north and ...escaped to the Adriatic islands in the south where he could break free from the constraints of everyday life. Those two worlds—the north, marked by the haunting saga of family life, its history and material practices, and the south, a place defined by travel and escape—formed the two halves of Fabijančić’s Croatian life. Over time, he observed Srebrnjak become a white-collar weekend retreat, the community of peasants of the 1970s, to which he was first introduced, only a distant memory. From the continental interior of green valleys and plum orchards to the austere and skeletal karst coast, Drink in the Summer is a unique record of a place and people now lost to time, a description of a country’s varied landscapes, and a journey of discovery, freedom, beauty, and love.
Archeological excavations and field survey of Neolithic sites during the last 100 years have formed a certain framework within which we developed an interpretation of Neolithic life in this area. ...Even though researchers have stressed the importance of sites, region, or period in their publications, most of the results revealed very modest remains of Neolithic settlements, too small or too scarce to provide insight in settlement size, organization, and other aspects of life. A combination of non-destructive methods of research is proving to be a more effective means of Neolithic site detection and interpretation. Here, we present the sites Gorjani-Kremenjača, Koritna-Pašnik, Gat-Svetošnice, Ivanovac-Korođvar, Klisa-Groblje, and Brdo, whose size and shape were defined through a combination of the analysis of aerial and satellite imagery and geomagnetic survey. Experience in combined research strategies will help us in our efforts to define parameters in recognizing regularities in the remains of settlement organization visible only from the air. Our results showed a complex network of densely populated settlements with elaborate internal organization and infrastructure varying in size from 10 to 50 ha. All settlements were surrounded by at least one set of ditches. Their internal organization was complex and suggests dense habitation. Many sites have several ditched spaces organized in complex systems. Obtained data and results provide a comprehensive review in a wider European context.
The Shipwreck of Gnalić Irena Radić Rossi; Mariangela Nicolardi; Mauro Bondioli ...
12/2021
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Unlike official history, which takes long and impersonal strides
through the past, The Shipwreck at Gnalić describes
individual human destinies that convey the story of the late
Renaissance period ...throughout Europe and the Mediterranean as
uncovered at the site of the shipwreck. Transiting the permanent
route between Venice and Constantinople, the ship Gagliana
grossa , formerly known as Lezza, Moceniga e
Basadonna , symbolically connected two apparently opposing, yet
tightly interwoven worlds. The stunning objects that spent four
centuries at the bottom of the sea briefly made the Gnalić
shipwreck famous in the 1960s and 1970s, but only in recent years
has the scholarly community finally started collecting all the
available information hidden in museum collections, at the
shipwreck site, and in the archives. After many years of effort by
the authors of this publication, the University of Zadar restarted
the research in 2012 thanks to the support of many domestic and
foreign institutions and organisations that, through their
participation, continue to contribute to the successful realisation
of project activities. The reconstruction of ancient events was
successfully started by Astone Gasparetto in the 1970s. After a
long pause, the painstaking work was undertaken by Mauro Bondioli,
who, through dedicated archival work at the State Archives in
Venice, discovered hundreds of documents and pieced them together
into a multi-layered historical story, which is summarised in the
second part of the book.
Alfirević Igor, Zagreb, Croatia Benčić Ivanka, Zagreb, Croatia Bradamante Vlasta, Zagreb, Croatia Dečković-Vukres Vlasta, Zagreb, Croatia Despot Lučanin Jasminka Zagreb, Croatia Delalić Asija, ...Zagreb, Croatia Golubić Renata, Zagreb, Croatia Filej Bojana, Novo Mesto, Slovenia Herco Nada, Zagreb, Croatia Hajnić Hrvoje, Zagreb, Croatia Hajnić Ljubica, Zagreb, Croatia Hudorović Narcis, Zagreb, Croatia Iveta Vadrana, Dubrovnik, Croatia Kapitan Snježana, Zagreb, Croatia Knežević Bojana, Zagreb, Croatia Krnić Anton, Zagreb, Croatia Lučanin Damir, Zagreb, Croatia Makarić Gordan, Zagreb, Croatia
Mamić Gordana, Zagreb, Croatia Margaritoni Marko, Dubrovnik, Croatia Matek Sarić Marijana, Zagreb, Croatia Mesić Marko, Zagreb, Croatia Miščančuk Marica, Zagreb, Croatia Prizmić Anita, Dubrovnik, Croatia Puljak Livia, Split, Croatia Rimac Branka, Zagreb, Croatia Sumpor Blaženka, Zagreb, Croatia Svetec Branka, Zagreb, Croatia Šteko Biserka, Zagreb, Croatia Toplak Silva, Zagreb, Croatia Videc Penavić Lana, Zagreb, Croatia Vidović Dinko, Zagreb, Croatia Vučetić Borki, Zagreb, Croatia Vučetić Mirta, Zagreb, Croatia Vučić Marinko, Zagreb, Croatia Žganjer Mirko, Zagreb, Croatia
In the region of Hrvatsko zagorje there are a lot of spa localities. The study area is in the northern Pannonian part of Croatia which is characterized by a high geothermal gradient (0.049 °C/m) and ...surface heat flow (76 mW/m^sup 2^). Although there are a lot of thermal occurrences in the study area, only ten were taken into consideration because there was a lack of geochemical data at other locations. The thermal springs considered are: Harina Zlaka, Krapinske toplice, Tuheljske toplice, Stubicke toplice, Sutinske toplice, Semnicke toplice, Toplicica (Maðarevo), Toplicica (Gotalovec), Podevcevo, Vrazdinske toplice. A compilation of geochemical data from different sources together with our own measurements has been used in this study. The aim of this paper is to review the thermal waters' geochemical characteristics and demonstrate how these features can be used to discern their origin and the aquifer they equilibrated with. The geochemical characteristics of thermal waters of the study area suggest that the water is in equilibrium with dolomite which means that dolomite is the thermal aquifer in the study area.
The fascist Ustasha regime and its militias carried out a ruthless campaign of ethnic cleansing that killed an estimated half million Serbs, Jews, and Gypsies, and ended only with the defeat of the ...Axis powers in World War II.
InVisions of Annihilation,Rory Yeomans analyzes the Ustasha movement's use of culture to appeal to radical nationalist sentiments and legitimize its genocidal policies. He shows how the movement attempted to mobilize poets, novelists, filmmakers, visual artists, and intellectuals as purveyors of propaganda and visionaries of a utopian society. Meanwhile, newspapers, radio, and speeches called for the expulsion, persecution, or elimination of "alien" and "enemy" populations to purify the nation. He describes how the dual concepts of annihilation and national regeneration were disseminated to the wider population and how they were interpreted at the grassroots level.
Yeomans examines the Ustasha movement in the context of other fascist movements in Europe. He cites their similar appeals to idealistic youth, the economically disenfranchised, racial purists, social radicals, and Catholic clericalists. Yeomans further demonstrates how fascism created rituals and practices that mimicked traditional religious faiths and celebrated martyrdom.
Visions of Annihilationchronicles the foundations of the Ustasha movement, its key actors and ideologies, and reveals the unique cultural, historical, and political conditions present in interwar Croatia that led to the rise of fascism and contributed to the cataclysmic events that tore across the continent.
With the fall of communism and the breakup of Yugoslavia, the successor states have faced a historic challenge to create separate, modern democracies from the ashes of the former authoritarian state. ...Central to the Croatian experience has been the issue of nationalism and whether the Croatian state should be defined as a citizens’ state (with members of all nationality groups treated as equal) or as a national state of the Croats (with a consequent privileging of Croatian culture and language, but also with a quota system for members of national minorities). Sabrina P. Ramet and Davorka Mati´c have gathered here a series of studies by important scholars to examine the development of Croatia in the aftermath of communism and the war that marred the transition.
Sixteen scholars of the region discuss the values and institutions central to Croatia’s transformation from communism and toward liberal democracy. They discuss economic change, political parties, and the uses of history since 1989. To understand the patterns in Croatia, they examine how civic values have been expressed, reinforced, and sometimes challenged through religion, education, and the media. The implications of nationalism in its various manifestations are treated thematically in all the analyses.
This book is a companion volume to a similar study on Slovenia, edited by Sabrina P. Ramet and Danica Fink-Hafner and released in fall 2006. Together, these two works form an important case study in comparison and contrast between two countries in the same region going through the transition from communism to liberal democracy. Scholars and policy makers will find a wealth of material in these two volumes.
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