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Горан Давидовић, Милош Тимотијевић, Затамњена прошлост : историја равногораца чачанског краја. Књ. 3, Агонија и слом : ратне 1944. и 1945. године (Чачак : Међуопштински историјски архив ; Краљево : Народни музеј, 2004 (Чачак : Графика Јуреш). - 462, [32] стр. с таблама ; 24 cm

Тираж 500. - Стр. 311-312: Рецензија / Коста Николић, Бојан Димитријевић. - Напомене и библиографске референце уз текст. - Summary: Darkened Past. The history of the Ravna Gora movement in the Čačak region. Book 3, Agony and breakdown of war 1944 and 1945- Библиографија: стр. 304-310. - Регистар.

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This article examines the reshaping of Belgrade's memorial landscape after the Second World War and after the 1999 NATO bombings, with a focus on the role of architects. As such, the paper shifts the scale of memory debates in two ways: first, from the national to the urban; second, from 'classical' memory entrepreneurs of the political realm to city makers, usually perceived as 'technical' actors, but, as the paper argues, in fact relevant memory actors both through the way they influence sites of memory and through memory debates. The article places the engagement of architects with narratives of heroism and victimhood in Serbia in a historical perspective, examining the shift in memorialisation after the Second World War. It then discusses the hesitant approaches on engaging with ruins of the 1999 NATO bombing, highlighting frictions between various actors in the Generalštab debate. Finally, it analyses the distinctive memorial engagement with the ruins of the Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) building by examining the bottom-up process of the competition for the RTS memorial. The article highlights that, even if not intentionally or by embracing memory-work, architecture and architects play a role in memory processes, while deeply enmeshed in constellations of political and economic power.

PREDGOVOR NIKOLAJA LEVAŠOVA ,13 januara 2011 godine :
" Ova knjiga je postala Hima heroja iz proslosti, čija imena su osudjena na
zaborav, kao Isidora, ili sećanja iskrivljena o Radomiru i Magdaleni. Svetlana je
uspela da vrati dobro njihovim imenima, govoreći ljudima o njihovim delima i
podvizima. A kao pravim herojima,ona nije imala vremena da im vrati ugled. Njena
nova knjiga neće biti napisana,ali poslužila je kao svetlost,koja je tako neophodna
danas za ljude, kako ne bi izgubili ljudski oblik. To pokazuje primer borbe ovih
ljudi koji su poginuli, ne radi svoje lične koristi, već za istinu. I da se donese
barem malo svetlosti u budućnost za druge. Svetlanin zivot, mogu nazvati
herojskim i ima pravo da stane uz one o kojima je pisala u svojoj knjizi. Ona sama
nikada nije mislila, da radi nesto herojski, ona je samo radila po savesti i od srca.
Nakon svakog napisanog poglavlja, u knjizi, oni su je nemilosrdno napadali.
Naravno tu je bila moja zaštita,ali čak ako i muškarac nosi neprobojni prsluk,
metak ga pogodi u lice, odbacuje metar, ostavljajući modrice po celom telu. Ako
na telesni oklop , meci padaju neprestano, iz dana u dan, iz godine u godinu, ne
treba objašnjavati posebno, i kada uzmete u obzir da su "meci" svi različitog
kalibra, i da neprijatelji čekaju u svakom trenutku. Nanošenje udara, na
nezaštićeno mesto, koje se pojavljuje svaki put, čim postoji i bilo kakva emocija,
otvarajuci zaštitu......Svaki put kada su napadači vršili udare, Svetlana je
pretrpela udare da nije mogla da se pomeri......Samo da ne bi na vreme mogla da
prenese istinu o dogadjajima iz tih vekova. Bio je to jak udarac u proleće, ali
tada sam bio u stanju da spasim Svetlanu od neprijatelja, jer su joj mogli jako
povrediti pamćenje i um. Skoro dva meseca,njenog života, su bili izbrisani, da
nisam bio u stanju da zaustavim ovaj proces, njena memorija bi bila izbrisana u
potpunosti..... Tada sam bio u stanju , ne samo da prekinem brisanje njene
memorije , već I da povratim skoro sve izbrisano. I tu nije stala Svetlana, čim
je bila sposobna za rad, ponovo je sela za kompjuter i počela da piše nova
poglavlja, stalni stres, i silni udari u njene oči, ona je bila skoro slepa.............. Čim
je bila u stanju da sedne za kompjuter i osetila se oporavljenom, dolazile su
njene vizije. Ona je pisala.....pisala....Tako su dolazila na svet poslednja poglavlja,
bila je toliko uplašena da nema vremena da završi poslednja dva poglavlja u svojoj
knjizi. Posle dogadjaja od ovog leta i drugih naših akcija koje su imale za cilj da
spreče tamne da zalupe vrata ubijenim i ostatku sveta., počeli su da nas
neprestano TUKU.........Poslednji put smo imali ozbiljan rad koji smo priveli na
sam kraj, krajem oktobra 2010 god, kada je Svetlana skupila svu snagu da izdrzi
do kraja. Uspeli smo da unistimo opasan sistem, koji su pripremili paraziti-tamni.
Nakon toga, RITAM ZLA,GOTOVO JE BIO BEZ ZAUSTAVLJANJA.....Narocito
noću, bili smo u stanju da se opustimo tek pred zoru, nismo ni ona ni ja imali sna,

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ni predaha...........Jer zlo oslabi na svetlosti....I tako se ponavljalo svaki
dan,posebno prošle godine, bilo je veoma tesko.... Ponekada sam video suze u
Svetlaninim očima...".

The folk tradition of Serbia contains references that resemble Vedic Gods. Their chief God was known as Triglav, literally meaning ‘three heads’. This has a parallel to Trimurti (Shiva) and the four-faced Brahma of the Hindu pantheon. This paper examines the folk tradition of Serbia and arrives at a conclusion that it was based on later migrations from North west India (present day Pakistan and Afghanistan) in the wake of Mongol raids while the concept of Triglav was much earlier and related to celtic practices which however had the conceptual origins in India of old, particularly linked with Mt Kailash.

estilo característica para a poesia lírica, épica e lírico-épica, sobretudo da tradição oral dos povos eslavos, embora também possa existir em outras culturas. O primeiro autor que escreveu sobre esta figura de estilo e quem lhe deu o nome foi o estudioso alemão Jakob Grimm, que aprendeu a língua sérvia para poder traduzir a poesia épica (em que esta antítese é um elemento importante) para alemão. Os investigadores sérvios tais como Dragiša Vitošević (VITOŠEVIĆ, Teorija… 1988) Radmila Pešić e Nada Milošević-Đorđević (PEŠIĆ, MILOŠEVIĆ, Narodna…1984) usam este nome, enquanto entre os teóricos russos tem-se a preferência pela denominação “paralelismo negativo”

(= Slavonic names for mosque with special regard to Polish, Silesian, Czech and Slovak data). -- Abstract: Even though mosques are a typical element of the Islamic culture the channels through which their designations came into Slavonic (as well as some other European languages) are not really well known. This author divides Slavonic reflexes of the Arabo-Turkic word into eight groups and discusses the reasons for their various shapes. The essay is composed of three parts: (1) Background and Western European data; (2) Slavonic and German; (3) Results and questions. The most interesting aspect is that of a semantic difference between two types of words (meczet ~ mešita ~ mošeja and džamija) and its importance for the etymology, as well as some comments on the source of the Czech and Slovak word on the one hand and the Russian term on the other. In the end of part (2) particular attention is paid to the question whether the Silesian name was borrowed from Polish or from Czech.

1912’den itibaren Güney Sırbistan olarak adlandırılan Kosova, Makedonya ve Sancak’ı elinde tutan
Sırbistan ile Osmanlı Devleti arasında, Balkan Savaşları sonrasında 14 Mart 1914’te İstanbul’da
bir barış antlaşması imzalanmıştır. Bu barış antlaşmasıyla Sırbistan’da yaşayan Müslümanların
hakları güvence altına alınsa da, 28 Temmuz 1914’te I. Dünya Savaşı’nın patlak vermesi üzerine 1
Kasım 1914’te Osmanlı Devleti ile Sırbistan arasındaki ilişkiler kesilmiştir. 11 Kasım 1914’te Osmanlı
Devleti’nin de savaşa dâhil olmasıyla Sırbistan ve Osmanlı Devleti, iki ayrı düşman kampta yer
almışlardır. Dolayısıyla Sırbistan, ülkesindeki Müslümanlara karşı angarya yükleme, askere alma
ve emlâka el koyma şeklinde uygulamalara başlamış ve bu konular Müslümanların şikâyetlerine ve
başkaldırmalarına neden olmuştur.

Dans la présente communication, nous nous sommes proposé de contribuer à la caractérisation sémantique de la préposition française dans, en examinant ses emplois et ses significations possibles et en confrontant les structures françaises contenant cette préposition avec leurs équivalents serbes. En partant de l'usage spatial de la préposition dans, nous avons essayé d' expliquer ses autres emplois plus abstraits (le temps, la cause, le moyen et la manière) à l'aide des notions introduites par Vandeloise: l'inclusion, la dépendance et la zone d'influence. Vu que ces notions se sont montrées insuffisantes pour justifier certains usages, nous avons également eu recours à l'analyse géométrique. Notre analyse a montré que les structures utilisées pour l'expression des relations spatiales sont aussi transposées dans les usages abstraits autant en français qu' en serbe. Cela implique que les usages non spatiaux sont en principe dérivés des relations spatiales dans les deux langues.

This paper focuses on the urban graffiti painted with a political message by different
movements of the Italian political radicalism in the cities of Rome, Florence, Massa,
Carrara, Verona and Udine. For the purpose of this article, during the period from June
2011 to June 2012, a total of 165 graffiti have been photographed, of which 83 painted by
neo-fascist groups, 72 by extreme left groups and 10 by anarchist groups. These three
macro communities, made of different subgroups, emerged as the most active in expressing
their antagonism towards the parliamentary parties with their graffiti that combine semantic
(words) and semiotic (images) elements. An analysis of the collected graffiti’s language
form, meaning and context allows for the identification of the variety of styles of
communication adopted by the different political antagonisms and the different contents of
their communication through graffiti as well as the key elements of their political identities.
Key words: political radicalism, graffiti, linguistics

87. Милош Тимотијевић, „Кошарка у Чачку 1940-1951.”, Зборник радова Народног музеја LI/ LII (2021/2022), стр. 299-341.

One of the most important characteristics of modern society is certainly sport, which has grown from games and entertainment into a special phenomenon that, in addition to being a competitive physical activity, involves issues such as mass culture, commercialization, politics and identity. The development of basketball in the area of today's Serbia within Yugoslavia was slowed down, so that after 1945, thanks to the mass involvement of youth in sports organizations under the control of the communists, this sport was given the opportunity to develop. After 1948 and the interruption of political relations between Yugoslavia and the USSR, the Soviet model of governing the state began to change, many areas of society gained autonomy, which was also reflected in the organizations for physical education. Thus, basketball has grown from a physical discipline under the control of official ideology into a separate sport, which, thanks to the success of the national team at international competitions, has enabled the identification of young people with its values.

This chapter deals with the theoretical foundations of Balkan Sprachbund studies: their purpose and aims, terminology and methods, and the areal and intralinguistic evidence for the regularity of contact-induced Balkanization processes on the peninsula. Instead of deconstruction, Balkan Sprachbund theory is supported by positivism, historicism, structuralism, social relevance and sufficient field data. These together demonstrate that it is possible to acquire new and profound insights into linguistic convergence in general and to provide Balkan linguistics with paradigms for research and models of interpretation. The concepts of linguistic boundary, dialect, regular correspondences in the functions of linguistic units, parallel grammaticalization, lexicalization, and semantic neutralization are stressed as crucial for understanding the nature of linguistic and cultural convergence and divergence that may manage to either evade or intensify identity loss. I argue that a facts-on-the-ground-based Sprachbund theory is capable of making predictions on the basis of the regularity of linguistic convergence in the Balkans. It is further argued that, for the first time in Balkan linguistics, thorough attention is being paid to bilingual symbiotic groups in zones of ongoing intimate contact on the part of the language and speech behaviour of their members.

Il dizionario Italijansko-srpski/srpsko-italijanski  (Italiano-serbo/serbo-italiano), a cura di Jasmina Stojković e Katarina Zavišin, è stato pubblicato nel 2016 dalla casa editrice Zavod za udžbenike di Belgrado. La sezione italiano-serba (L2-L1) annovera oltre 5.000 voci, mentre in quella serbo-italiana (L1-L2) sono oltre 4.500. Come si legge nell’introduzione, il maggior numero di lemmi in L2-L1 è dovuto all’approccio seguito, che dà la precedenza allo sviluppo delle abilità ricettive dell’apprendente rispetto a quelle produttive. Le due autrici precisano inoltre che il criterio di selezione del lessico si basa sulla frequenza delle parole in entrambe le lingue, in relazione al loro uso nella comunicazione quotidiana. Come indicato nel sottotitolo , destinatari del dizionario sono gli studenti delle scuole primarie e secondarie di primo e secondo grado, mentre nell’introduzione si precisa che esso può risultare adatto a tutti coloro che studiano italiano come lingua straniera. È noto, poi, che la lingua serba si avvale di due alfabeti, cirillico e latino, seppur con una certa prevalenza del primo: per tale ragione, ai fini della compilazione di quest’opera il serbo è reso in cirillico, scelta che limita in parte il target dei possibili fruitori.

The paper is focused on ideological and political conflicts about popular mu-sic in Serbia, as a good example of wrong and confused searching for identity. Basicconflict that author is analysing is about oriental elements (such as asymmetric rhyth-mic patterns and melismatic singing) and the question if they are legitimate parts ofSerbian musical heritage or not. Author is making an analysis of three periods intwentieth century, in which absolutely the same arguments were used, and he’s pay-ing special attention to contemporary conflicts, trying to explain why all of the theo-ries are ideologically based. Author is insisting on role market played in developmentand modernization of popular music in Serbia. The article is ending with some rec-ommendations for better understanding of cultural identity in Serbia, and for recog-nizing popular music as specific field of interest and researchKey words: popular music, turbo-folk, identity, market, oriental elements,ideolo

U radu se istražžuju sekundarne promene u adaptaciji anglicizama na morfološškom i semantičkom nivou na korpusu sakupljenom na drušštvenoj mrežži Fejsbuk u komunikaciji o rijaliti-programima. U okviru morfološške adaptacije razmatraju se razlčiti oblici reči dobijeni dodavanjem domaćih afiksa na imenice, glagole i prideve poreklom iz engleskog jezika. Cilj je da se utvrde vrsta i broj afiksa te najčešši motivi za derivaciju. Na planu semantike analiziraju se anglicizmi koji su dužžom upotrebom u srpskom jeziku proširili obim značenja ili stekli dodatno značenje. Razmatraju se i značenjske promene nastale kao rezultat delovanja metafore, pejorizacije i elipse u srpskom jeziku. Analizom ovog zasad nedovoljno istražženog aspekta adaptacije anglicizama otkriće se obrasci i tendencije u sekundarnoj adaptaciji.

At the beginning of XXI century the problem of Serbian national identity has become one of the most important topics in public. There are at least three opposed self-concepts of Serbian nation. The first relies on the medieval folk-Orthodox protonational identity in modern times usually called “svetosavlje”. The second is a secular version of the medieval heritage shaped by the Western European model of constructing the nation, in which the selected contents of the past are spread through of the liberal state and national propaganda. The third concept is a complete rejection of tradition and acceptance of some new supranational identity. By this is usually meant the Yugoslav socialist-era, and in modern times, the cosmopolitan diffused post-culture, but that is still based on Western forms of liberal capitalism. This article provides an overview of the development of Serbian national idea, according to theoretical postulates of Anthony Smith, as one of the contributions to understanding the lack of creation of Serbian national cultural pattern in modern times.

Милош Тимотијевић, „Српска национална идеја – кратак преглед обликовања једног културног обрасца”, Етно-културолошки зборник 21 (2017), 151-176. - УДК 323.1(497.11):316.4(091)

In contemporary business management, which is characterized by intense competitive pressure, marketing is getting more and more dominant role. Companies on the market are more exposed to competitive pressure due to the growing number of suppliers (bidders) and substitutive products on the home market, and increase of foreign competition due to the world economy globalization. The success of marketing tools usage largely depends on the expected financial effects realization, as well as the survival of company on the market does, both in long and short terms. Brand marketing is a useful tool in modern business environment and it is an important source of competitive advantage. The concept and essence of brand have been significantly changed recently, compared to the period of twenty or more years ago. Brand is no more considered as just a label or sign, it is a tool that creates value for consumers and significantly contributes to improving the competitive position on the market. In brand creating process one should start from the elements that influence the creation of value for consumers and to consistently apply mechanisms to maximize the function of the brand on the market and enable companies to achieve maximum impact in terms of achievement of competitive advantage. It is important at the same time, in the respect of analysis of the financial payback investment in brand creating, to concider brand impacts on the financial performance of the company. The aim of this paper is to point out the role, importance and concept of brand in modern marketing, and to highlight the role and way of creating value for consumers with help of the brand, which contributes to improving the competitive position and points out the brand influence on the financial performance of companies.

This paper deals with how focus affects scalar implicatures in the interpretation of Serbian quantifier neki ‘some ‘ (e.g. Some apples are on the table). Two experiments have been conducted with 56 adult native Speakers of Serbian, based on a modified version of the Truth-value judgment task. Results show lower proportion of generated implicatures in Serbian than in other languages, which suggests that scalar implicatures are not generated automatically. Cardinal interpretation of the quantifier neki is dominant, quantificational interpretation and implicatures (some=not all) being facilitated with the use of partitive construction (neke od jabuka ‘some of the apples’), as well as positioning the quantified noun phrase in the final sentence position (Na stolu su neke jabuke ‘On the table are some apples’). Under certain conditions, contrastive focus affects the generation of scalar implicatures. These results show that the process of generating scalar implicatures goes beyond semantics and pragmatics, and poses responsibility on other language domains, such as informational structure.

This article describes the experience of the community of Serb-Catholics living in Dubrovnik in the early twentieth century. It is based primarily on an investigation of the literary and cultural periodical Srdj (1902-08). This study focuses, fi rstly, on the conceptual ambivalence resulting from efforts to apply linguistic criteria to determine Serbian identity and, secondly, on the efforts to construct a mental map that would serve projections of Serbian symbolic territory. While the presence of the Serb-Catholic milieu in the city was short-lived (from the mid-nineteenth century to the First World War), it nevertheless left traces on the urban landscape that typifi ed the ambivalent formation of national identity along religious lines, as Croatians were associated with Catholicism and Serbs with Orthodoxy.

The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of 3, 5, and 7 days of creatine loading coupled with resistance training on skeletal muscle volume and functional performance. Twenty active males were randomly assigned in a double-blind fashion to either the ...

Nove tehnologije i razvoj Interneta donieli su nove izazove u svim sferama društva. Izuzetak nažalost nije ni nasilje koje je prešlo granice fizičkog okruženja i proširilo se u virtualno okruženje, naročito kod djece i mladih. Specifičnosti komunikacije u virtualnom okruženju, gledano kroz prizmu važnosti koju mladi pridaju svom virtualnom identitetu i reputaciji, čine ovaj vid zlostavljanja sve rasprostranjenim i vrlo opasnim po psihološku dobrobit žrtve zlostavljanja. Sajber zlostavljanje je kod mladih najrasprostranjenije u vidu vršnjačkog zlostavljanja koje uglavnom sprovodi osoba iz socijalnog okruženja žrtve koja ili žrtvu lično poznaje, ili to radi u dogovoru s nekim ko žrtvu poznaje. Osim toga deca mogu biti i žrtve nepoznatih cyber nasilnika i pedofila koji žrtve pronalaze na Internetu. U slučajevima vršnjačkog zlostavljanja maltretiranje u online okruženju često je indikator postojanja maltretiranja u stvarnom životu. Budući da je u pitanju nov i nedovoljno proučen tip zlostavljanja, on često biva ignorisan od strane nadležnih institucija, što zbog nepoznavanja problema što zbog nepostojanja razvijenih mehanizama prevencija i intervencija. U radu je analiziran problem cyber zlostavljanja među mladima, s naglaskom na probleme vezane za vršnjačko zlostavljanje, uloge institucija u prevenciji i intervenciji i dat prikaz dobrih praksi i programa koji se trenutno u svetu koriste u ovoj oblasti.

СТУДИЈЕ ИЗ СРПСКЕ РЕЛИГИЈЕ И ФОЛКЛОРА
Филолошки листићи
О читању Библије
Прослава Миланског едикта у Нишу
»У Бога су вунене ноге, а гвоздене руке«
Место коментара
Примедбе уз неколике пословице
Из српске религије и митологије
О садржини и изворима српске пословице 4 Вук
Из наших народних пословица
Неколике примедбе уз српски Бадњи дан и Божић
»Стари и Нови савез«
О Даничићевом преводу Старога завета <Постанак крсног имена>
Имена од урока
Божићна слама
Једна арнаутска варијанта о боју на Косову
Мотиви прве арнаутске песме о боју на Косову
Убијање вампира
Бадњи дан и Божић
Гостопримство и теофанија
Магични смеј
Субота — ђачка бубота
»Пуштање воде« о Великом четвртку
Кумство у капи
Да ли су стари Срби знали за идоле?
Секула се у змију претворио
»Не бојим се никога до Бога«
Сахрањивање под прагом
Доњи свет у јами
Вуна и лан
Туђ погреб
Oleum et opera
Људски и животињски полаженик
Свети Сава и вуци

I aim in this chapter to provide a generalizing genetic and geolinguistic (arealtypological) analysis of Slavic dialects in the Balkan context and to offer synthetic conclusions at the present state of research. I will make statements on theory and terminology, research method and tasks, present my data and discuss divergent and convergent developments. All this will help me achieve a solid knowledge of how general mechanisms of genetic splitting and typological merging, borrowing and calquing, language shift, and language and ethnic separation interplayed to make Balkan Slavic a special language group.

ТИМОТИЈЕВИЋ, Милош, 1969-
        "Храбри" партизани и "зли" четници : студије о Србији у Другом светском рату : (1941-1945) / Милош Тимотијевић. - Београд : Catena mundi, 2019 (Пирот : Pi-press). - 234 стр. ; 25 cm. - (Библиотека Посебна издања / [Catena mundi, Београд])

Тираж 400. - О аутору: стр. 223-224. - Напомене и библиографске референце уз текст. - Регистар.

ISBN 978-86-6343-110-2
94(497.11)"1941/1945"

COBISS.SR-ID 276209676

U legendama, pričama, narodnim pesmama i odgovarajućim istorijskim spisima, nalaze se dokazi o postojanju viteškog kodeksa u Srednjovekovnoj Srbiji. Oni su bili ratnici na konjima, a kako su oni bili skupi, njihova titulacija se vezivala za plemstvo i povlašćeniji socijalni status, koji je krasio vrline pravičnosti i odanosti gospodaru. Takvi kodeksi ponašanja su bili propagirani od strane crkve, koja je promovisala ideale dobročinstva, a sa kojima je pokušavala da vitezove pretvori u ratnike za hrišćanstvo. Da je srednjovekovni srpski viteški kodeks bio i ostao, naravno u izmenjenoj i savremenijoj formi i sadržaju, jedan od temeljnih izvora naše vojničke etike i službene časti oficirskog kora srpske vojske vidi se kroz brojne primere i dokaze, za koje treba bliže upoznati istorijske prilike i socijalne strukture od Velikog Župana Nemanje do Cara Dušana. Onaj koji udružuje oružje sa pravom i pravdom, donosi i opšti zakon na Saboru, suveren je sa sabljom za pojasom, ` sabljonosac`koji i danas sija estetskim idejnim obličjem prvog reda, onog koji ustanovljava i prvomučeničko znamenje nebeskog sjaja, Orden Svetog Stefana.

Hybrid nouns, nouns which induce different agreements according to the target, have been described in various languages. The new question is why they exist at all. There is clear evidence that hybrids vary considerably in the agreement they control, even within a single language. It therefore seems logical to align this variability with lexical semantics, and this is convincing for some hybrids. But this motivation is hard to reconcile with the fact that some hybrids are hybrids only for part of their paradigm. These latter instances suggest that the underlying motivation for some hybrids is a form-meaning mismatch.

The main focus of the paper is the image of European-Chinese relations in the travel prose Tamo amo po istoku (‘Here and there in the East’), written by the Serbian traveller Milan Jovanović. Jovanović worked as a doctor on a steamer belonging to the Lloyd company in the 1870’s and 1880’s, and travelled through the Mediterranean, the Middle East, India, and the Far East. In his prose, he made quite a few remarks about China and the Chinese. According to Jovanović, European presence in Asia is dominated by greed, violence and injustice, and because of that, the peoples of Asia have started to despise Europeans and perceived them as cruel barbarians. Chinese industriousness, perseverance, frugality and good manners are emphasized in the travelogue. In general, Jovanović’s view on the future of intercultural relations was an optimistic one. Contacts between civilisations were an opportunity for Europe to adopt Chinese values. It should be pointed out that Jovanović’s way of thinking would have been very interesting in the context of 19th century ideologies of racism and colonialism.