Procession in northern Kosovska Mitrovica on the feast day of the city's celebration of Demetrius
This paper deals with the celebration of Demetrius, city's celebration of Kosovska Mitrovica, which the author wishes to show within clearly defined spacious and timely frames including a recognizable organizers and main actors. A special attention was paid to the one of the crucial celebration...
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Institute of Serbian Culture Priština, Leposavić
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| description | This paper deals with the celebration of Demetrius, city's celebration of Kosovska Mitrovica, which the author wishes to show within clearly defined spacious and timely frames including a recognizable organizers and main actors. A special attention was paid to the one of the crucial celebration rituals - procession which, with its starting point in the churchyard of St. Demetrius, is moving via main streets of the city making a circle around the narrowest core of it. The reason for such theme choosing lies in the fact the author wishes to give a contribution to ethnologic-anthropologic study which aim is to replace generalized studies of some phenomena in culture, which generally mean interpretations based on the absence of clear temporally and spacious co-ordinate, by taking into account precisely determined events in order to achieve ethnographic material which could serve for eventual comparative or repeated researches of the same phenomena. No less important motive for the research of the mentioned theme the author sees in the endeavour to give contribution to the studies of modern phenomena in the culture of Serbian population in the ethnically divided city as Kosovska Mitrovica, in which from the war in 1999 everyday life of Serbs is characterized almost by permanent emergency situations filled with tensions with respect to the Albanian population, security risks, institutional-legal and existential uncertainty. The research for the needs of paper by the method of observation with participation including jotting down the events with camera and dictaphone was carried out at the day of Demetrius in 2012. The achieved results show the feast of city's celebration day in Northern Kosovska Mitrovica together with public rituals being partitioned during that day are structured at three levels such as: 1) at the level of apace, 2) time, and 3) participants. The celebration of Demetrius is performed in the Church of St. Demetrius and its churchyard, and outside of it - along the trace which including some streets makes a circle around the city's core, and at some points being situated in that trace. Public rituals at the day of the city's celebration are carried out in the frames of more-less precisely determined time intervals - at 08:00 o'clock where feast's church liturgy starts, and around 10:30 when procession sets out from the churchyard until 12:00 o'clock when the procession by the turnout at the Square of Šumadija is terminated. Among the actors of Demetrius' celebration is possible to notice organizers and main actors, which include representatives of the Serbian Orthodox Church, local self-management, and some bodies of power from the Republic of Serbia from one part, and from another, visitors, participants including the members of wider Serbian community in Northern Kosovska Mitrovica. Feast's rituals in the church building of St. Demetrius, as the author noticed, are carried out completely in accordance with Church's Law, in the way the Orthodox church's practice impose it. Nevertheless, although church's representatives interpret part of the celebration including procession in accordance with Christian images, it is featured with the displace of Demetrius' acts out of church's building, strict Church's principles are put in the second plan, from which it can be supposed the way of their practicing was achieved by harmonization of the priesthood concepts and the population needs themselves. Harmonization of the procession with the needs of population of Northern Kosovska Mitrovica is better shown by the popularity of this ritual among them, and which in some elements is more like folk, profane celebrity than strictly prescribed church's ritual. The importance of that ritual is noticeable in the symbolic it contains: symbolic of individual and group identification with the Orthodox religious tradition and the one in the field of ethnic identification are being overlapped in it. The procession is seen by the representatives of the Serbian Orthodox Church including the citizens as the event they are identifying with as the Orthodox believers and the one serving for the Serbian people from Northern Kosovska Mitrovica gathering, and in the reinforcing of its mutual connection and fellowship feeling. The mentioned symbolic is not able to be viewed independently from the interethnic tensions which have been present for many years among the citizens of the city for which Serbian population has got doubtlessly the need in the conflict with others, or Albanians, to express and confirm its religious and ethnic identity. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-64751a9a96b64f2797483bbc6edf86ad2022-12-21T21:09:52ZengInstitute of Serbian Culture Priština, LeposavićBaština0353-90082683-57972013-01-012013342512690353-90081334251PProcession in northern Kosovska Mitrovica on the feast day of the city's celebration of DemetriusPavlović Aleksandar0Institut za srpsku kulturu - Priština/LeposavićThis paper deals with the celebration of Demetrius, city's celebration of Kosovska Mitrovica, which the author wishes to show within clearly defined spacious and timely frames including a recognizable organizers and main actors. A special attention was paid to the one of the crucial celebration rituals - procession which, with its starting point in the churchyard of St. Demetrius, is moving via main streets of the city making a circle around the narrowest core of it. The reason for such theme choosing lies in the fact the author wishes to give a contribution to ethnologic-anthropologic study which aim is to replace generalized studies of some phenomena in culture, which generally mean interpretations based on the absence of clear temporally and spacious co-ordinate, by taking into account precisely determined events in order to achieve ethnographic material which could serve for eventual comparative or repeated researches of the same phenomena. No less important motive for the research of the mentioned theme the author sees in the endeavour to give contribution to the studies of modern phenomena in the culture of Serbian population in the ethnically divided city as Kosovska Mitrovica, in which from the war in 1999 everyday life of Serbs is characterized almost by permanent emergency situations filled with tensions with respect to the Albanian population, security risks, institutional-legal and existential uncertainty. The research for the needs of paper by the method of observation with participation including jotting down the events with camera and dictaphone was carried out at the day of Demetrius in 2012. The achieved results show the feast of city's celebration day in Northern Kosovska Mitrovica together with public rituals being partitioned during that day are structured at three levels such as: 1) at the level of apace, 2) time, and 3) participants. The celebration of Demetrius is performed in the Church of St. Demetrius and its churchyard, and outside of it - along the trace which including some streets makes a circle around the city's core, and at some points being situated in that trace. Public rituals at the day of the city's celebration are carried out in the frames of more-less precisely determined time intervals - at 08:00 o'clock where feast's church liturgy starts, and around 10:30 when procession sets out from the churchyard until 12:00 o'clock when the procession by the turnout at the Square of Šumadija is terminated. Among the actors of Demetrius' celebration is possible to notice organizers and main actors, which include representatives of the Serbian Orthodox Church, local self-management, and some bodies of power from the Republic of Serbia from one part, and from another, visitors, participants including the members of wider Serbian community in Northern Kosovska Mitrovica. Feast's rituals in the church building of St. Demetrius, as the author noticed, are carried out completely in accordance with Church's Law, in the way the Orthodox church's practice impose it. Nevertheless, although church's representatives interpret part of the celebration including procession in accordance with Christian images, it is featured with the displace of Demetrius' acts out of church's building, strict Church's principles are put in the second plan, from which it can be supposed the way of their practicing was achieved by harmonization of the priesthood concepts and the population needs themselves. Harmonization of the procession with the needs of population of Northern Kosovska Mitrovica is better shown by the popularity of this ritual among them, and which in some elements is more like folk, profane celebrity than strictly prescribed church's ritual. The importance of that ritual is noticeable in the symbolic it contains: symbolic of individual and group identification with the Orthodox religious tradition and the one in the field of ethnic identification are being overlapped in it. The procession is seen by the representatives of the Serbian Orthodox Church including the citizens as the event they are identifying with as the Orthodox believers and the one serving for the Serbian people from Northern Kosovska Mitrovica gathering, and in the reinforcing of its mutual connection and fellowship feeling. The mentioned symbolic is not able to be viewed independently from the interethnic tensions which have been present for many years among the citizens of the city for which Serbian population has got doubtlessly the need in the conflict with others, or Albanians, to express and confirm its religious and ethnic identity.https://scindeks-clanci.ceon.rs/data/pdf/0353-9008/2013/0353-90081334251P.pdfcity's celebrationdemetriusprocessionkosovska mitrovicaserbian orthodox church |
| spellingShingle | Pavlović Aleksandar Procession in northern Kosovska Mitrovica on the feast day of the city's celebration of Demetrius Baština city's celebration demetrius procession kosovska mitrovica serbian orthodox church |
| title | Procession in northern Kosovska Mitrovica on the feast day of the city's celebration of Demetrius |
| title_full | Procession in northern Kosovska Mitrovica on the feast day of the city's celebration of Demetrius |
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| title_short | Procession in northern Kosovska Mitrovica on the feast day of the city's celebration of Demetrius |
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| topic | city's celebration demetrius procession kosovska mitrovica serbian orthodox church |
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