Kulturna antropologija i socijalna historiografija
Cultural Anthropology and Social History

Summary/Abstract: The author discusses several aspects of the epistemology and methodology of the two fields. Since much of anthropological research has been devoted recently to the reconstruction of community life in the past, sometimes in remote past, as well as to studying dynamics of change, the two disciplines have come to share many of their methods. Anthropologists learn to use archives, while historians learn to draw conclusions from the life-stories of single individuals, single villages or sometimes single ritual events. What remains specific to anthropology is its insistence on building its holistic perspective on the subjective views of the world by others, and only indirectly and more rarely by members of anthropologist’s own culture. However, integrated and interdependent world in which we live today, the subject-object relationship in anthropological research has been profoundly changed. It has turned tionship in anthropological research has been profoundly changed. It has turned into a cultural dialog of actors who are at the same time subjects of those cultural processes which they can influence and interpret, and objects of those cultural processes of wider scope over which they have no control.

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