Summary
Vesna Marjanović: Masks, masking and rituals in Serbia
The study Masks, masking and rituals in Serbia is the result of research conducted during the last decades of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century. The phenomena of masking and corresponding rituals with masks have so far been marginalized in contemporary Serbian ethnology and anthropology research and have not received adequate attention. By systematically publishing and combining part of existing research with recent empirical material, opportunities are provided to present these cultural phenomena in a new light. Such an approach also imposed some new questions that have not yet been answered, such as, for example, the question of how masking is treated today and how communication develops within it in Serbia and its society as a whole, and does Bakhtin's street "culture of laughter" exist in the social reality of the reverse order? Is it possible to focus the problem of imagined and realized order by treating masking as an integral part of the allowed/not allowed boundary?
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