TOWARDS THE PROBLEM OF SECONDARY ARCHAISM IN
ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH OF SOUTH SLAVS Cover Image

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

Author(s): Nikola F. Pavković
Subject(s): Ethnohistory, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
Published by: Институт за етнологију и антропологију
Keywords: secondary archaism; primitive people; culture; South Slavs; ethnographic rejuvenation;

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).

  • Issue Year: 9/2009
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 9-16
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Serbian
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