Lackenby, Nicholas;
(2024)
Evoking Eternity Orthodox co presence post Yugoslav central Serbia.
Cultural Anthropology
, 39
(2)
pp. 272-297.
10.14506/ca39.2.05..
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Abstract
This article approaches the idea of eternity ethnographically. Specifically, it turns to post-Yugoslav central Serbia and the version of eternity (večnost) evoked by practicing Orthodox Christians in their daily lives. In this context, the eternal does not imply the everlastingness of persons and things in this life, or an inevitable cyclical “return.” Rather, eternity constitutes a dimension outside of time that sits alongside the present, a dimension that can be inhabited by ancestors and departed kin. In evoking eternity, people throw temporal life into relief, find solace in the face of death, and engage in the national community those no longer physically present. Against an essentializing view of the eternal as repetition or stasis, the article speculates about how evoking eternity is socially and politically generative, imbuing life with increased imaginative possibilities.
Type: | Article |
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Title: | Evoking Eternity Orthodox co presence post Yugoslav central Serbia |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: | 10.14506/ca39.2.05. |
Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14506/ca39.2.05 |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | © 2024 Nicholas Lackenby. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/0). |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Anthropology |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10192744 |
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