Tatomir P. Vukanović (1907–1997) was a

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n ethnologist of the

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region of south-eastern

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. Born in

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, Southern Serbia, he concentrated on the history, folklore and culture of the

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(Gypsy) inhabitants of

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in general and the southern province of

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in particular, as well as in

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issues, most specifically of sworn virgins, the latter due to the fact that he himself was gayAs remarked by

Dejan Medaković Dejan Medaković ( sr-cyr, Дејан Медаковић; 7 July 1922 – 1 July 2008) was a Serbian art historian, writer and academician. Medaković had served as President of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts from 1998 to 2003, as Dean ...

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led to his marginalisation as a scholar and demise from positions of authority to which he had aspired as a

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's partisan guerrilla

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Bibliography

* " The Vampire". Four articles in ''Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society'' (''JGLS'') from 1957 to 1960 * "The Gypsy Population in Yugoslavia". ''JGLS'', Third Series, Vol. XLII, Nos. 1-2 (January–April 1963), pp. 10–27. * "Ritual Communion Among Gypsies in Serbia" (1964). ''JGLS'' 43:22 * "Gypsy Pilgrimages to the

Monastery of Gračanica A monastery is a building or complex of buildings comprising the domestic quarters and workplaces of monastics, monks or nuns, whether living in communities or alone (hermits). A monastery generally includes a place reserved for prayer which m ...

in Serbia" (1966). ''JGLS'' 45:17 * ''Romi (Tsigani) u Jugoslaviji''. Vranje: Nova Jugoslavija, 1983

References

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