tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-173339852024-03-13T06:38:29.924+03:00Graçanicë/Gračanica: cultural heritage and communityarchaeoblog on human rights archaeology - community cultural heritage in Graçanicë/Gračanica (also known as Gračanice, Graqanica and Graqanicë)samarkeologhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15105252320758729314noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17333985.post-84169811547282108822011-08-27T13:05:00.000+03:002011-08-27T13:14:00.153+03:00I decided to officially archive this blog on the day my DPhil was confirmed. But I have waited for the electronic publication of my thesis, <a href="http://conflictantiquities.wordpress.com/2011/08/27/cultural-heritage-work-in-cyprus-dphil-thesis-electronic-publication/">Interrogating Archaeological Ethics in Conflict Zones: Cultural Heritage Work in Cyprus</a>, to announce the archiving. From now on, I will blog at <a href="http://conflictantiquities.wordpress.com/">Conflict Antiquities</a>.<br />
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On Conflict Antiquities, I will concentrate on illicit antiquities trading, organised crime and political violence in Cyprus, Greece and Turkey. As I explain in an <a href="http://conflictantiquities.wordpress.com/2011/08/24/conflict-antiquities-introduction/">introduction to Conflict Antiquities</a>,<br />
<blockquote>I want to study the history of the trade in conflict antiquities; and to explore the relationship between the trade in conflict antiquities and the funding of conflict and violence.</blockquote>samarkeologhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15105252320758729314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17333985.post-1128254166574897032005-10-02T14:56:00.000+03:002005-11-25T11:30:06.623+02:00<a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/216/5433/640/083.jpg'><img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/216/5433/320/083.jpg'></a><br />UNMIK Pristina Municipality Local [Gracanica] Community Office 4: banner reading "Internationals, will you tell your children about what you were doing in Kosovo?"samarkeologhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15105252320758729314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17333985.post-1128253924603053452005-10-02T14:52:00.000+03:002005-10-02T14:52:04.683+03:00<a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/216/5433/640/082.jpg'><img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/216/5433/320/082.jpg'></a><br />UNMIK Pristina Municipality Local [Gracanica] Community Office 3: First World War memorial.samarkeologhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15105252320758729314noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17333985.post-1128253839646212302005-10-02T14:50:00.000+03:002005-10-02T14:50:39.653+03:00<a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/216/5433/640/081.jpg'><img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/216/5433/320/081.jpg'></a><br />UNMIK Pristina Municipality Local [Gracanica] Community Office 2: Serbian flag and Serbian Orthodox shrine in UNMIK office garden.samarkeologhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15105252320758729314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17333985.post-1128253655451645802005-10-02T14:47:00.000+03:002005-10-02T14:50:49.910+03:00<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/216/5433/640/080.jpg"><img style="BORDER-RIGHT: #000000 1px solid; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; MARGIN: 2px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 1px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1px solid" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/216/5433/320/080.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />UNMIK Pristina Municipality Local [Gracanica] Community Office 1.samarkeologhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15105252320758729314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17333985.post-1128253529965181562005-10-02T14:45:00.000+03:002005-10-02T14:45:29.970+03:00<a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/216/5433/640/079.jpg'><img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/216/5433/320/079.jpg'></a><br />Gracanica Monastery gardens.samarkeologhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15105252320758729314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17333985.post-1128253417832810542005-10-02T14:43:00.000+03:002005-10-02T14:43:37.836+03:00<a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/216/5433/640/078.jpg'><img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/216/5433/320/078.jpg'></a><br />Old walls of the convent complex consolidated by new barbed wire 2.samarkeologhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15105252320758729314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17333985.post-1128253363297976972005-10-02T14:42:00.000+03:002008-02-10T07:21:55.190+02:00<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/216/5433/640/0772.jpg"><img style="BORDER-RIGHT: #000000 1px solid; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; MARGIN: 2px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 1px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1px solid" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/216/5433/320/0772.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Old walls of the convent complex consolidated by new barbed wire 1: this functions to protect the nuns and the soldiers who guard them; it is not possible to take photographs further inside as it may provide intelligence to terrorists and put the residents as risk.<br /><br />[Updated on the 10th of February 2008.]<br /><br />Mark Mardell has interviewed Raška and Prizren Diocese Bishop Artemije, the '<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/markmardell/2008/01/bishop_behind_barbed_wire.html" target="_blank">bishop behind barbed wire</a>'.samarkeologhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15105252320758729314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17333985.post-1128252729611400532005-10-02T14:32:00.000+03:002005-10-02T14:32:09.616+03:00<a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/216/5433/640/076.jpg'><img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/216/5433/320/076.jpg'></a><br />Entrance into the convent complex of Gracanica Monastery.samarkeologhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15105252320758729314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17333985.post-1128252696279662852005-10-02T14:31:00.000+03:002005-10-02T14:36:05.280+03:00<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/216/5433/640/0751.jpg"><img style="BORDER-RIGHT: #000000 1px solid; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; MARGIN: 2px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 1px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1px solid" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/216/5433/320/0751.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Gracanica Monastery now operates as a convent and a KFOR outpost; this is part of the convent complex.samarkeologhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15105252320758729314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17333985.post-1128252577929574342005-10-02T14:29:00.000+03:002005-10-02T14:29:38.066+03:00<a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/216/5433/640/0741.jpg'><img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/216/5433/320/0741.jpg'></a><br />Tombstone outside the Church of the Assumption.samarkeologhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15105252320758729314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17333985.post-1128251429533461752005-10-02T14:10:00.000+03:002005-10-02T14:28:16.826+03:00<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/216/5433/640/073.jpg"><img style="BORDER-RIGHT: #000000 1px solid; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; MARGIN: 2px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 1px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1px solid" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/216/5433/320/073.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Church of the Assumption in Gracanica Monastery.samarkeologhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15105252320758729314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17333985.post-1128250927229353582005-10-02T14:02:00.000+03:002007-01-14T18:21:25.250+02:00<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/216/5433/640/0721.jpg"><img style="BORDER-RIGHT: #000000 1px solid; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; MARGIN: 2px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 1px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1px solid" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/216/5433/320/0721.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Dedication inscription set into Gracanica Monastery wall.<br /><br />[Updated on the 14th of January 2007]<br /><br />Vasilevs has been kind enough to translate it:<blockquote>"In this monastery,in 1539.AD,the bishop of Novo Brdo,Nikanor,with the slave of a God,Dimitrije,started first press and library."</blockquote>So, it's not a dedication inscription for the foundation of the monastery itself (at least not primarily); it's an inscription recording the establishment of a printing press and library.samarkeologhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15105252320758729314noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17333985.post-1128250110031295232005-10-02T13:48:00.000+03:002005-10-02T14:08:20.506+03:00<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/216/5433/640/069.jpg"><img style="BORDER-RIGHT: #000000 1px solid; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; MARGIN: 2px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 1px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1px solid" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/216/5433/320/069.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Memorial plaque affixed to Gracanica Monastery wall.samarkeologhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15105252320758729314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17333985.post-1128249371667022912005-10-02T13:36:00.000+03:002007-01-14T18:23:51.224+02:00<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/216/5433/640/068.jpg"><img style="BORDER-RIGHT: #000000 1px solid; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; MARGIN: 2px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 1px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1px solid" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/216/5433/320/068.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Graffiti conversation between nationalists and anti-nationalists opposite Gracanica Monastery: the nationalist writing includes "Kosovo... Crbja [Srbja] [Kosovo (is part of)... Serbia]", "narod bira a ne mira [the (Serbian) nation chooses (to be) without peace]" and "CCCC (Cvi Crbi Ce Cereju [Only Unity Saves Serbs])" (in the form of fire-steels around a cross); the anti-nationalist writing includes the name of the primary Serb protest organisation, "Otpor" and its English translation, "Resistance", too.<br /><br />[Updated on the 22nd of November 2006]<br /><br />Apparently, I should have read "CCCC [SSSS]" as "Samo Sloga Srbina Spasava", which means "Only Unity Saves Serbs", rather than as "Svi Srbi Se Sereju", which according to one friend, Sabina, means, "All Serbs are Shitting Themselves", but which according to another, Nikola, means nothing (because the last word means nothing).<br /><br />[Updated on the 14th of January 2007]<br /><br />Marko added that:<blockquote>"Narod bira a ne Mira" means "the people choses, not Mira (Markovic)". Mira Markovic is the wife of Slobodan Milosevic. Consequently, this would presumably also be an anti-nationalist grafitti. CCCC stands for "Samo Sloga Srbina Spasava" and not "svi srbi se sereju" (which could mean something like all Serbs are shitheads - it's not correct serbo-croatian).</blockquote>samarkeologhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15105252320758729314noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17333985.post-1128244127669604652005-10-02T12:08:00.000+03:002005-10-02T12:08:47.673+03:00<a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/216/5433/640/067.jpg'><img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/216/5433/320/067.jpg'></a><br />"Work: Greek [Orthodox] Church Solidarity NGO [Non-Governmental Organisation]": sign outside Gracanica Monastery.samarkeologhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15105252320758729314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17333985.post-1128243305074404542005-10-02T11:55:00.000+03:002005-10-02T11:55:05.076+03:00<a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/216/5433/640/066.jpg'><img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/216/5433/320/066.jpg'></a><br />Gracanica Monastery: since 1999, this monastery has been the seat of the Serbian Orthodox Church; Gracanica is a Serb enclave.samarkeologhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15105252320758729314noreply@blogger.com0