Prof. Dr. Mirjam Mencej

Profil

Derzeitige StellungProfessor W-3 und Äquivalente
FachgebietEthnologie und Europäische Ethnologie,Religionswissenschaft
Keywordsbelief narratives, vernacular religion, Bosnia and Herzegovina, etnic identity, social context

Aktuelle Kontaktadresse

LandSlowenien
OrtLjubljana
Universität/InstitutionUniversity of Ljubljana
Institut/AbteilungDepartment of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology

Gastgeber*innen während der Förderung

Prof. Dr. Hans-Jörg UtherEnzyklopädie des Märchens, Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Göttingen
Prof. Dr. Annette KehnelAbteilung für Mittelalterliche Geschichte, Universität Mannheim, Mannheim
Prof. Dr. Ulf BrunnbauerLeibniz-Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung (IOS), Regensburg
Beginn der ersten Förderung01.06.2002

Programm(e)

2001Humboldt-Forschungsstipendien-Programm

Publikationen (Auswahl)

2017Mirjam Mencej: Styrian Witches in European Perspective - Ethnographic Fieldwork. Palgrave Macmillan/Springer Nature, 2017
2015Prof. Dr. Mirjam Mencej: Origins of Witchcraft Accusations. . In: Studia Mythologica Slavica, 2015, 111-130
2015Prof. Dr. Mirjam Mencej: Security Guards as Participants in and Mediators of a Ghost Tradition. In: Fabula, 2015, 40-66
2015Prof. Dr. Mirjam Mencej: Unwitching - The Social and Magical Practice in Traditional European Communities. In: Western Folklore , 2015, 115-159
2014Prof. Dr. Mirjam Mencej: The Symbolism of the Directions of Circular Movement. . In: Ljupčo S. Risteski, Ana Aštalkovska Gajtanoska, eds., Za etnologijata: bezbroj pragovi sme preminale (Collection of articles dedicated to 40 years of scientific and research work of Professor Aneta Svetieva).. Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Faculty of Mathematics, University St. Cyril and Methodius, Macedonia. 2014. 199-222
2013Mirjam Mencej: Symbolism of circular movement in European traditional culture. Universität Ljubljana, 2013
2012Prof. Dr. Mirjam Mencej: Envie et sorcellerie dans la Slovénie rurale. . In: Ethnologie française , 2012, 213-223
2012Mirjam Mencej: Spaces of passage into supernatural time. . In: Tautos. darbai , 2012, 30-48
2011Mirjam Mencej: Connecting Threads . In: Folklore (Tartu, Online), 2011, 55-84
2009Mirjam Mencej: Narrating about witches. . In: Brednich, Rolf Wilhelm, Erzählkultur Beiträge zur kulturwissenschaftlichen Erzählforschung Hans-Jörg Uther zum 65. Geburtstag. Walter de Gruyter, 2009. 207-222
2009Mirjam Mencej, ith Kehnel, Annette Representing eternity: circular movement in the cloister, round dancing, winding-staircases and dancing angels. . In: Müller, Anne, Stöber, Karen, Self-representation of medieval religious communities: the British isles in context (Vita regularis, 40).. LIT, 2009. 67-97
2009Prof. Dr. Mirjam Mencej: Spinning taboos in Europe. . In: Svetieva, Aneta, ed., Socijalni i duhovni aspekti na materijalnata kultura (Social and spiritual aspects of material culture).. Skopye: Prirodno-matematički fakultet, Institut za etnologija i antropologija, Univerzitet Sv. Kiril i Metodij. 2009. 135-158
2009Mirjam Mencej: Witches, magic and fairies in Macedonia and Slovenia.. In: Šmitek, Zmago, Svetieva, Aneta (eds.)., Macedonian lifeworlds: from mythic landscape to the state.. VDM, 2009. 43-79
2009Mirjam Mencej: Wolf holidays among Southern Slavs in the Balkans. In: Acta Ethnographica Hungarica , 2009, 337-358
2008Mirjam Mencej: Space and Time in Europe: East and West, Past and Present. Univerza v Ljubljani, 2008
2008Prof. Dr. Mirjam Mencej: The night is yours, the day is mine! Functions of stories of night-time encounters with witches in eastern Slovenia. In: Estudos de literatura oral , 2008, 189-206
2008Mirjam Mencej: Walking in circles.. In: MENCEJ, Mirjam, Space and time in Europe East and West, past and present, (Zbirka Zupaničeva knjižnica no. 25). Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Arts, 2008. 35-65
2008Mirjam Mencej: Witchcraft in Eastern Slovenia. In: PÓCS, Éva, KLANICZAY, Gábor., Witchcraft mythologies and persecutions, (Demons, spirits, witches, vol. 3). . Central European University Press, 2008. 295-314
2008Mirjam Mencej: Witchcraft in eastern Slovenia and western Macedonia a comparative analysis.. In: ŠMITEK, Zmago, SVETIEVA, Aneta Post-Yugoslav lifeworlds (Zupaničeva knjižnica, no. 15/1). 2nd ed.. Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Arts, 2008. 37-67
2007Mirjam Mencej: Night witches in rural eastern Slovenia in the context of slavic and european parallels. . In: Ethnologia slovaca et slavica, 2007, 45-58
2006Mirjam Mencej: The role of legend in constructing annual cycle. . In: Folklore (Tartu, Online). http://www.folklore.ee/folklore/vol32/mirjam.pdf. , 2006, 99-128
2006Mirjam Mencej: Witches Led Me Astray. Research of Village Witchcraft in Eastern Slovnia at the Turn of the Millennium (slowenisch). Zupaniceva krijiznica, 2006
2005Mirjam Mencej: Slavic summer/winter opposition in the pastoral year and the christian and pre-christian figures identifiable as the Master of the wolves. . In: Cosmos, 2005, 79-111
2005Mirjam Mencej: Tales about Nighttime Encounters with Witches, Their Function, and Their Role in the Construction of Space and Time (slowenisch). In: Studia Mythologica Slavica, 2005, 167-186
2004Mirjam Mencej: 'I Was Led Astray by Hags.' Nocturnal Encounters with Witches (slowenisch). In: Studia Mythologica Slavica, 2004, 107-142
2003Mirjam Mencej: Burying Objects - Magical acts in the rural environment of Easter Slovenia (slowenisch). In: Etnolog, 2003, 411-433
2003Mirjam Mencej: Researching Witchcraft on the Field. Witchcraft as a Complex System of Belief (slowenisch). In: Studia Mythologica Slavica, 2003, 163-180