It's been thirty years that Nina Zivancevic has been offering us the wisdom of her thought and creative observation, be it through numerous analytical publishing, specialized art reviews, critical essay writing or through her poetry. Her words reach us in the form of laughter or cries or the tears of this world-at any rate, these are the intense words of the real which talk about the reality of the real. She writes the way she speaks in a lucid, forceful movement which is both sudden and surprising. She never fails to touch the innermost profundity of our being wherever she goes.

Stavroula Bellos, chair of anthropology, Université Paris

Nina Zivancevic's SMRTi belongs to a hybrid genre of fictional poetics cum anthropological essays. These essays are somewhat included in a vast genre of travelogues but these journals are more akin to the explorations of Margaret Mead and Levi-Strauss who believed in the anthropology of the Big Other not the strictly geographical descriptions of the lands we visit. Nina Zivancevic's anthropological essay is above all a DIALOGUE where the author and her own culture dialogue with the cultures she visits. The author here does not take the privileged stance of domineering thinker who observes a new or an unknown culture with haut disdain. She allows the newly observed to subtly influence her. Thus her trip to India where Zivancevic dialogues with Henry Michaux who traveled and lived in India 80 years before Zivancevic and who left an indelible literary trace on the history of literature regarding Asia.

David Graeber, anthropologist, political thinker, activist