Žarana Papić (4 July 1949 – 10 September 2002) was a Yugoslav

social anthropologist Social anthropology is the study of patterns of behaviour in human societies and cultures. It is the dominant constituent of anthropology throughout the United Kingdom and much of Europe, where it is distinguished from cultural anthropology. In t ...

and feminist theorist.

Life

Žarana Papić was born in

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, nowadays

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on 4 July 1949, and her family moved to

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in 1955. She earned her

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degree in

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from the

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in 1974 and received her

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degree a dozen years later from the same institution. Papić was appointed a lecturer in social anthropology at the university in 1989 and received her Ph.D. there in 1995. She died unexpectedly in Belgrade on 10 September 2002.

Activities

Already a student activist, Papić was introduced to feminist theory at the Croatian Sociological Association Conference in 1976 and then attended the first Women's Studies course at the Inter-University Centre in

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, later that year. She began publishing papers on women's issues in 1977 and helped to organize the first international feminist conference in Eastern Europe under the title of ''Comrade/ess—the woman question, a new approach?'' (''Drug/ca žensko pitanje, novi pristup?'') in October 1978 in Belgrade. This was a "key moment in Yugoslav feminism" as it presented the new feminist movement and feminist theory via lectures by prominent feminists from all over Europe. Papić, with

Lydia Sklevicky Lydia Sklevicky (7 May 1952 – 21 January 1990) was a Croatian feminist theorist, historian and sociologist. "The first Croatian scholar to address the social history of women from a feminist perspective, Sklevicky’s contribution to the disci ...

, co-edited the first book of feminist anthropology in Yugoslavia in 1983, entitled ''Towards an Anthropology of Woman'' (Antropologija žene), and her master's thesis was published in 1989 as ''Sociology and feminism'' (''Sociologija i feminizam''). Her doctoral dissertation was published in 1997 as ''Gender and Culture: Body and Knowledge in Contemporary Anthropology'' (''Polnost i kultura: telo i znanje u savremenoj antropologiji'').Perović, p. 399

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Papic, Zarana 1949 births 2002 deaths Serbian feminists People from Sarajevo Writers from Belgrade Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina University of Belgrade alumni Social anthropologists Feminist theorists