КА ПРОБЛЕМУ СЕКУНДАРНОГ АРХАИЗМА У АНТРОПОЛОШКОМ ПРОУЧАВАЊУ ЈУЖНИХ СЛОВЕНА
TOWARDS THE PROBLEM OF SECONDARY ARCHAISM IN ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH OF SOUTH SLAVS

Summary/Abstract: Terms primitive and archaic represent a part of historical heritage o f European and American anthropology. They were used for signifying objects of anthropological research such as primitive people, primitive society, primitive culture. A problem arose though: based on what criteria were some people and societies classified as primitive (and/or archaic), and others as civilized? A research conducted in Brazil resulted in conviction that due to changes in surrounding environment and ways o f productions, some tribes had reached the state o f cultural regression which was termed faux archaisme (Levi-Strauss). The same phenomenon among South Slavs and other Balkan people (caused by Ottoman invasion 15th - 19th century) was ascertained in 1902 by Serbian geographer Jovan Cvijic, who named the phenomenon ethnographic rejuvenation (etnografsko osvezavanje) and ethnographic re-creation (etnografska rekreacija).

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