Ethnography

A court in Albania decided on Saturday to detain until his trial an ethnic Greek mayoral candidate in the southern Albanian municipality of Himara, Fredi Beleri, after he was charged with vote-buying.

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"I did not find it strange, maybe because it was not talked about as something unusual," said Zorica Ivanović, assistant professor at the Department of Ethnography and Anthropology at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade, recalling a chance discovery on one of her field trips.

In its 11th edition, the now-online Ethnographic Film Festival brings 40 fiction and documentary films from around the world that offer glimpses into little-known societies and communities, address hot-button issues - such as Brexit, which is one of the sections, and climate change - push the boundaries of the medium or show us what young filmmakers are up to.

The National Ethnographic Museum is launching a campaign to collect objects from the years of socialism. The aim is to be shown in special expositions.

In the Ethnographic Museum you can see how the Bulgarian lifestyle and culture have appeared over the centuries. For example - wedding costumes of the late 19th century. But now you can also help enrich the collection.

The Netherlands Institute in Athens, the Athens Ethnographic Film Festival, the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at VU Amsterdam, in cooperation with the Ethnographic Laboratory of Panteion University, are organizing an intensive summer school on visual anthropology in collaboration with Dutch and Greek universities for the third year in a row.