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Abstract: Borderland identities – on belonging and local ways of doing things in a post-Soviet placeIn this article we take a closer look at post-Soviet identity and 'belonging' within the Indigenous communities in Chukotka, the Russian Far East. During the Soviet era, the Soviet identity was glorified, whereas local ways of life, languages and the ethnic identities of Indigenous peoples were suppressed and stimatized. With the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the entire region sank into a severe economic and ideological crisis, forcing the Indigenous people to return to traditional ways of surviving, stimulating their interest in their ethnic roots, alternative spiritual values and new identities. Based on own empirical material, we analyse facets and practices of belonging among those who identify as Yupik and are related to Inuit in Greenland. Relying on Ortega's notion of hometactics, we focus on activities – the use of certain words and amulets in homes, consumption of certain foods, and performance of sacred rituals and songs associated with the past – that forge a sense of familiarity and belonging in everyday spaces for the Yupik people, showing how Yupik identity is constructed, enacted, and attributed meaning in interaction and everyday life.

Along with the development of ethnology and sociology, researchers' interest deepened in one of the most important elements of culture: law. Bronisław Malinowski was one of the founding fathers of social anthropology, who studied law as a phenomenon functioning in a cultural context. The researcher emphasized the importance of law for social institutions, and although this phenomenon was a rather fluid category according to Malinowski, he declared the need to present its clear definition. The text deals with the ways Malinowski conceptualised law, including his reference to the assumptions presented by other researchers, and how his observations, conclusions and postulates contributed to the development of anthropology of law as a field of research.

Nasilnički kriminalitet predstavlja jedan od najstarijih oblika kriminaliteta, te je praktično oduvek prisutan u društvu. Kada se sagledaju svi oblici ispoljavanja kriminaliteta, nasilnički kriminalitet izaziva najsnažniju reakciju i najoštriju osudu društva, jer se njime ugrožavaju, kako život čoveka kao najznačajnija ljudska i društvena vrednost, tako i imovina ili druge vrednosti i dobra žrtve ili društva. U savremenom društvu, on je prisutan svuda oko nas, u porodici, školi, na poslu, ulici, utakmicama i raznim drugim manifestacijama. Napretkom društva, on danas sve više postaje naša nezaobilazna društvena svakodnevnica. U odnosu na ostale oblike oblike kriminaliteta, ovde do izražaja dolazi značajnija sklonost nasilnika ka iživljavanju, kao i njegova drskost i bezobzirnost prilikom prinuđavanja drugog da trpi takvo ponašanje. Posledice nasilničkog kriminaliteta mogu biti izuzetno destruktivne i reflektuju se na pojedinca u vidu psihičkih, socijalnih i seksualnih problema, ali i na njegovo bliže okruženje i društvo u celini kroz narušavanje kvaliteta života. Upravo zbog toga suzbijanje nasilničkog kriminaliteta predstavlja jedan od primarnih zadataka svake države, a preduslov za realizovanje ovog zadatka jeste razumevanje njegovog etiološkog aspekta kako bi se kreirale efikasne mere prevencije. Cilj rada jeste da se kroz analizu i sistematizovanje saznanja u pogledu uzroka nasilničkog kriminaliteta ukaže i na destruktivnost posledica koje proističu iz ovog pojavnog oblika kriminaliteta, te na značaj kreiranja preventivnih mera koje polaze upravo od ovih faktora, ne gubeći iz vida ni posledice koje je takođe potrebno preduprediti.

This article is devoted to the spatial changes in the postmodern, post-transformation city, and particularly to areas that can be defined as the "in-between city" (German "Zwischenstadt"). This term refers to areas characterized by a change of function connected with the extensive spatial development of a city. The authors undertake to present studies of the case of the "in-between city" areas of two cities in Poland (Poznań and Gdańsk) and the various types of participation in culture that occur there. They call attention to the culture-forming and city-forming potential of "peripheral" areas, which are currently intensively urbanized but which not long ago were treated as industrial terrain or as areas for supplying resources (communications routes, energy infrastructure, etc.). The authors seek out the historical facts conditioning the evolution of the in-between city, as well as making use of the data collected during their study. They refer to the findings of the sociology of the city, the perspectives of culture studies, and the premises of a relational theory of culture.

The article describes the use of geological metaphors in humanistic and social memory studies. It shows how geological concepts are used in contemporary research and theoretical reflection on memory: what phenomena and processes they describe, how their use in a distant scientific discipline is justified, and how comparisons are made between the meaning of a given term in geology and its meaning in memory studies. The considerations are illustrated with the example of two metaphors: sediments of time and the Anthropocene.