CEIPA

The Center for Ethnological Research and Applied Anthropology - CEIPA is an association for the affirmation  of ethnology and anthropology. The Center is a voluntary, non-profit, non-governmental, non-partisan association of citizens formed to realize, protect and harmonize its beliefs for the advancement of civil society and local communities, for the encouragement of moral values ​​and for the strengthening of interethnic relations.
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The CEIPA Association was established in 2016.  It actively includes doctors and masters of  ethnological and anthropological sciences and other related humanities and social disciplines, students of ethnology and anthropology studies and other devotees of the promotion and protection of cultural values. Also, in the project activities, experts, employed in the institutions where the projects are implemented in partnership, are included as mentors and implementers of the project activities. CEIPA is a permanent collaborator of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, with which it carries out numerous joint scientific research and project activities.

During its existence, CEIPA has developed several projects:

  • Forum: "Intangible Cultural Heritage in Macedonia: Implementation, Protection and Promotion", project manager Ines Crvenkovska Risteska

 

  • Workshop with preschool children: "Clothes adorn, clothes defile" (Educational workshop for nurturing and promoting cultural heritage) project manager Ljupčo Risteski

 

  • Workshop: "From Fleece to Socks". (Educational Workshop for Nurturing and Promoting Cultural Heritage) Project Manager Ljupčo Risteski

 

 

  • Workshop: "From ear of corn to bread". (Educational workshop for nurturing and promoting cultural heritage) Project manager Ljupčo Risteski

 

  • Workshop: "I sing to make you sing." (Educational workshop for nurturing and promoting cultural heritage) Project manager Ljupčo Risteski

 

  • Workshop: "I play to play you." (Educational workshop for nurturing and promoting cultural heritage) Project manager Ljupčo Risteski

 

  • Workshop: "Holiday Calendars of Communities in Macedonia". (Educational Workshop for Nurturing and Promoting Cultural Heritage) - Project Manager Ljupčo Risteski

 

  • Forum: "Ethnological Cultural Heritage in the Republic of Macedonia between Theory and Practice" Project Manager Ines Crvenkovska Risteska

 
  • Forum: "Promoting the elements of protection of ethnological cultural heritage in the Republic of Macedonia", project manager Ines Crvenkovska Risteska

 

  • The Dervish Order Halveti-Hayati in Ohrid, monograph, author Viktor Trajanovski

 

  • Audio edition of the magazine EthnoAnthropoZoom issues 1-6 in Macedonian, project manager Viktor Trajanovski

 

  • Zikr - the dervish religious ritual in Skopje (ethnographic film), author of the film Viktor Trajanovski

 

  • The cultural heritage of the city of Skopje through short comic stories - Create a Streetscope, author Ines Crvenkovska Risteska

 

  • Multimedia map of the immovable cultural heritage of Skopje. Ottoman period - religious buildings - project manager Viktor Trajanovski

 

  • Audio edition of the magazine EthnoAnthropoZoom issues 7-16 in Macedonian language - project manager Elizabeta Pavković

 

  • Multimedia map of the immovable cultural heritage of Skopje. Ottoman period - profane objects - manager Elizabeta Pavković

 

  • Grandma Roga and her friends - a picture and coloring book for children and young people, author Ines Crvenkovska Risteska

 

  • Audio edition of the magazine EthnoAnthropoZoom issues 10-16 in English - project manager Viktor Trajanovski

 

  • Anthropology of Death - Understanding Death in the Folk Culture of Macedonians - monograph by the author Ljupčo S. Risteski

 

  • The Strumica speech: ethno-linguistic materials - author Kosta Peev 

 

  • Multimedia map of the immovable cultural heritage of Bitola . Ottoman period - religious and profane objects - project manager Viktor Trajanovski

 

  • Cultural Heritage for Adults: "Shameful Stories" - a collection of comic illustrated erotic stories - authors Aleksandra Sofronievska, Slobodan Tanaskoski, Ines Crvenkovska Risteska 

 

  • "Ethnological and cultural-anthropological studies of Poreč " - collection, editors: Aneta Svetieva and Ljupčo S. Risteski   

 

  • The Turbies in Skopje, exhibition and catalogue, authors: Elizabeta Pavković and Viktor Trajanovski

 

  • The Skopje Dervish - comic book edition by authors Viktor Trajanovski and Vladimir Trajanovski

 

  • The Alphabet of Skopje - publication, editors Viktor Trajanovski and Aleksandra Ristovski

 

  • "Ethnological and cultural-anthropological studies of Poreč " - collection, editors: Aneta Svetieva and Ljupčo S. Risteski   

 

  • International Conference on Solidarity and Collective Support through the Prism of Folklore and Ethnology – Project Manager Eda Starova Tahir

 

  • Publication: Carved Ceilings, Cupboards and Doors in Macedonia , author Aneta Svetieva, editor Ljupco S. Risteski

 

  • Ethnographic materials by Prof. Gjorgji Zdravev, first book, researcher Gjorgji Zdravev, editor Ines Crvenkovska Risteska.

 

  • " Ethnological Research of the Gorani", project manager Viktor Trajanovski

https://www.ceipa.org.mk/

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