Svetlana Slapšak (born 18 January 1948 in

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) is a Slovenian

anthropologist An anthropologist is a person engaged in the practice of anthropology. Anthropology is the study of aspects of humans within past and present societies. Social anthropology, cultural anthropology and philosophical anthropology study the norms and ...

classical philologist Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, classics traditionally refers to the study of Classical Greek and Roman literature and their related original languages, Ancient Greek and Latin. Classics ...

, writer, and historian. She has authored the books ''Svi Grci nazad! : eseji o helenizmu u novijoj srpskoj književnost'' (1985), ''Ogledi o bezbrižnosti : srpski intelektualci, nacionalizam i jugoslovenski rat'' (1994), ''Leon in Leonina ali Zgodba o vztrajnosti'' (1997), ''Ženske ikone antičkog sveta'' (2006), ''Zelje in spolnost : iz zgodovinske antropologije hrane : študija o kultni, ritualni in kulturni vlogi zelja'' (2013), and ''Antička miturgija : žene'' (2013). She was nominated for the

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in 2005. In 2017, Slapšak has signed the

Declaration on the Common Language The Declaration on the Common Language ( sh, Deklaracija o zajedničkom jeziku / ) was issued in 2017 by a group of intellectuals and NGOs from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia who were working under the banner of a project ...

of the

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and

Montenegrins Montenegrins ( cnr, Црногорци, Crnogorci, or ; lit. "Black Mountain People") are a South Slavic ethnic group that share a common Montenegrin culture, history, and language, identified with the country of Montenegro. Genetics Accordin ...

.Signatories of the Declaration on the Common Language
official website, retrieved on 2022-08-13.

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