Žarana Papić (4 July 1949 – 10 September 2002) was a Yugoslav social anthropologist and feminist theorist.
Žarana Papić was born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, nowadays Bosnia and Herzegovina on 4 July 1949, and her family moved to Belgrade in 1955.
[1] Already a student activist, Papić was introduced to feminist theory at the Croatian Sociological Association Conference in 1976 and then attended the first Women's Studies course at the Inter-University Centre in Dubrovnik, Croatia, later that year.
She began publishing papers on women's issues in 1977 and helped to organize the first international feminist conference in Eastern Europe under the title of Comrade/ess—the woman question, a new approach?
Her doctoral dissertation was published in 1997 as Gender and Culture: Body and Knowledge in Contemporary Anthropology (Polnost i kultura: telo i znanje u savremenoj antropologiji).