Antropologija savremenosti
Anthropology of Contemporaneity
Contributor(s): Saša Nedeljković (Editor)
Subject(s): Anthropology, Social Sciences, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure
Published by: Srpski genealoški centar
- Page Count: 222
- Publication Year: 2007
- Language: Serbian
Deset antiteza jednom postizmu u antropologiji
Deset antiteza jednom postizmu u
antropologiji
(Ten Antitheses to a Post-ism in Anthropology)
- Author(s):Ivan Kovačević
- Language:Serbian
- Subject(s):Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure , Methodology and research technology
- Page Range:24-35
- No. of Pages:12
- Keywords:postmodernism;anthropology;ethnography; methodology; science
- Summary/Abstract:This paper challenges the conception that postmodernism can only be described in postmodernist terms. I claim that theory of ethnography was never part of general anthropological methodology. Furthermore - despite numerous efforts - it never was nor will be a theory at all, but only a discussion of techniques of data collection. Once we formulate the problem, find a location in time and space in which it can best be tested, and confront our hypotheses with either corroborating or falsifying facts, we will be able to abandon the idea - that was being grounded both in American anthropology and Serbian ethnology for centuries - that science begins with collecting facts. Gathering around the already weakened anthropological center would enable us to comprehend the disciplinary damage from wasting very limited human resources. Therefore, I plead for the concentration around the core of anthropology, which is already so vast that it barely allows our discipline.
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Antropološki pristup proučavanju etnogeneze: Etnogeneza Crnogoraca
Antropološki pristup proučavanju etnogeneze: Etnogeneza Crnogoraca
(Anthropological Approach to Etnogenesis: the Case of Montenegrins)
- Author(s):Saša Nedeljković
- Language:Serbian
- Subject(s):Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure
- Page Range:36-75
- No. of Pages:330
- Keywords:historiography;anthropology;ethnogenesis; identity managment; montenegro
- Summary/Abstract:In this paper, I present the interactionist approach to studies of ethnogenesis in anthropology. I have undertaken the deconstruction of historiographic studies of the people of Montenegro, through the comparative analysis of results from differing historiographic traditions. The ethnogenesis of Montenegrins represents a good example how ethnogenetic constructions are built through interethnic and interantional interaction, in accordance with contemporary political interests.
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Merkantilne legende postindustrijskog društva
Merkantilne legende postindustrijskog društva
(Mercantile Legends of Post-Industrial Society Studies by Gary Alan Fine)
- Author(s):Dragana Antonijević
- Language:Serbian
- Subject(s):Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure
- Page Range:76-91
- No. of Pages:16
- Keywords:Gary Alan Fine; mercantile legends; folklore postindustrial society; corporate capitalism;
- Summary/Abstract:Gary Alan Fine, American sociologist and folklorist, has devoted considerable attention to the study of the phenomena of folklorization and narrativization of post-industrial societies. Starting from the premise that the entirety of modern societies is a folklore community, Fine studied narratives used to reflect on the structural changes that took place in the second half of the twentieth century and led to the creation of global post-industrial society and its adjacent form, corporate capitalism. He concluded that urban, especially mercantile (or corporate) legends narrate the difficulties and problems people are facing, and that their study can open the path to understanding the complex interrelation between transitional societies. Fine undertook the classification and interpretation of mercantile legends, pointing to the social, economic and psychological context of their creation and transmission. He also offered an interpretive concept he named "Goliath effect", pertaining to the set of ambivalent feelings, destruction of traditional values and, above all, fear, impotence and frustration common people experience when faced with the impenetrability of the phenomena that deeply influence their lives. Fine coined the term "dangerous capitalism" to point to the key topic of rumors and stories which narrate the cultural and psychological effect of power and influence that dominant corporations exert in contemporary world. At the end of this paper, I elaborate on the implications of Fine’s analyses for the future folklore research of similar phenomena in Serbia.
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Ričard Dorson i proučavanje folklora u savremenom miljeu
Ričard Dorson i proučavanje folklora u savremenom miljeu
(Richrad Dorson and Folklore Studies in Modern Society)
- Author(s):Ljubomir Hristić
- Language:Serbian
- Subject(s):Customs / Folklore, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure
- Page Range:92-101
- No. of Pages:10
- Keywords:Richard Dorson;folkloristics;folklore; city;
- Summary/Abstract:Diverse range of subjects that Richard Dorson handled, or had vehemently dealt with or confronted, addressing many disciplinary quarrels, even today presents a benchmark to numerous scientists who, following his theoretic and methodological lead, approach diverse element of the folklore creativity. In his final years, Dorson and his students, made pioneering leaps in successfully obtaining and interpreting folk traditions of the industrialized Midwest. Dorsons presentation of the novel research area within folklore studies, in his seminal publication Land of the Mill Rats, bequests the question ‘Is there folk in the city’, is there a place for folklorists in modern industrial society’, and as we shall demonstrate in this essay, such a question for him and his followers had implications for scientific goals of defining expressions as behavior, i.e. the understanding of human existence. This creation of a historic and contemporary fieldwork amalgam brings Dorson to the epicenter of urban-industrial America, and its new folklore.
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Koncepti Dušana Bandića: narodna religija i narodno pravoslavlje u kontekstu istraživanja religije u domaćoj etnologiji XX veka
Koncepti Dušana Bandića: narodna religija i narodno pravoslavlje u kontekstu istraživanja religije u domaćoj etnologiji XX veka
(Concepts of Dušan Bandić in Studies of Religion in 20th century Serbian Ethnology)
- Author(s):Lidija Radulović
- Language:Serbian
- Subject(s):Customs / Folklore, Culture and social structure
- Page Range:102-122
- No. of Pages:21
- Keywords:dušan bandić; popular religion; popular orthodoxy;
- Summary/Abstract:In this paper, I discuss the contribution of late professor Dušan Bandić to the research of popular religion and popular orthodoxy, in the context of 20th century Serbian ethnology. The concept of "popular religion" Bandić introduced helped fill a void created by decades of theoretical and methodological stagnation in studies of popular religion and beliefs. The concept of popular orthodoxy, likewise, represented a completely innovative approach to religion studies, since it focused on the reception and interpretation of messages from the Serbian Orthodox Church among the general population. Thus, it managed to reach the depths of religious research that had been previously obscured in studies that could only provide an image of formal religiosity.
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Religijsko-ritualni funkcioneri i kultna mesta u istočnoj Srbiji
Religijsko-ritualni funkcioneri i kultna mesta u istočnoj Srbiji
(Religious and Ritual Funcionaries and Cult Places in Eastern Serbia)
- Author(s):Danijel Sinani
- Language:Serbian
- Subject(s):Customs / Folklore, Culture and social structure
- Page Range:124-149
- No. of Pages:26
- Keywords:religious-ritual functionary; church persons;professionalization; possession; places of cult;
- Summary/Abstract:The research in the town of Knjaževac and surrounding villages reveals that the phenomenon of spirit possession influences the formation of a special category of ritual functionaries, called "church persons". Depending on the degree of professionalization of their abilities, the services those persons offer range from communicating with the dead (channeling their souls' voices) to becoming the key religious functionary in a community, where he/she, besides communicating with the other world, healing, and foreseeing the future, also organizes religious life and offers religious, moral and ethical sermons, which play an important role in the community through the foundation and maintenance of important places of cult. Church persons are upwardly socially mobile, in terms of economy and status. The actions of these functionaries subsume the two previously known categories – medicine men and priests. They apply their knowledge in ways close to the popular spirit,with additional authority generated by the phenomenon of spirit possession.
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Srpski nacionalizam na kraju dvadesetog veka
Srpski nacionalizam na kraju dvadesetog veka
(Serbian Nationalism at the Close of Twentieth Century)
- Author(s):Vladimir Ribić
- Language:Serbian
- Subject(s):Politics and society, Culture and social structure , Nationalism Studies
- Page Range:150-171
- No. of Pages:22
- Keywords:serbian nationalism; serbian political idiom; federation; confederation;
- Summary/Abstract:At the end of the 20th century, Serbian nationalism witnessed its revival, in the context of enforced decentralization of Yugoslavia and Serbia brought by the 1974 Constitution. A majority of political actors in Serbia were inclined towards a federative Yugoslavia, but there was an option intended for the case in which other nations would not want the same. It is wrong to think that nationalist unity on the Serbian political scene at the beginning of nineties was a result of attitudes expressed in the Memo of Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences. In reality, Serbian academics and politicians, as well as the majority of Serbian public, were thinking within the framework of Serbian political idiom that was constructed throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. In its base lies a form of integrationist nationalism, which, like the idea of creation of a state that would gather all Serbs, was filled with ideas of south-Slavic, Balkan and pan-Slavic unity. This striving for national unity was followed by anti-imperialistic struggles against the Ottoman, Habsburg and German empires, followed by mass resistance to Hitler's Reich and other Nazi-fascist forces, as well as the conflict with USA and their western allies in the last decade of the 20th century. Integrationist and anti-imperial character of Serbian nationalism rendered it compatible with Yugoslav pan-nationalism. The possibility to transcend, led them to direct confrontation with other ethnonationalisms in Yugoslavia to whom separatism and particularism were inherent. Since their culmination was in the period of economic globalization, which favors ethnonationalisms, regional autonomisms and other forms of political separatism and particularism, Serbian nationalism and Yugoslav pan-nationalism were doomed to failure.
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Etnografski muzeji/zbirke i konstrukcija identiteta
Etnografski muzeji/zbirke i konstrukcija identiteta
(Ethnographic Museums/Collections and Identity Construction)
- Author(s):Ljiljana Gavrilović
- Language:Serbian
- Subject(s):Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure , Sociology of Culture, Sociology of Art
- Page Range:172-189
- No. of Pages:18
- Keywords:museum; exhibition; identity; minorities; social inclusion; new museology;
- Summary/Abstract:This paper discusses museum theory and the local museum practice as factors building in construction/re-construction of an identity at various levels, including an individual, minority groups, and dominant cultural, socio-economic group. Furthermore, the paper assesses the role of museum in preventing/including certain social groups/categories toward access to culture as a means of social stratification, and in addition, possibilities of alteration of that same role toward more active participation of a museum in its social surroundings, in accordance with the new museum paradigm. Especially emphasized is an analysis of the role and meaning of ethnographic museums/collections in the process of shaping national/ethnic identities and further possibilities of inclusion of minorities, absent from the usual practice. This refers to the acquisition of objectsbelonging to a minority group, and on the other hand, to their underpresentation, which indicates a cultural segregation.
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Postsocijalizam i tranzicija, lokalne zajednice i identiteti
Postsocijalizam i tranzicija, lokalne zajednice i identiteti
(Post-Socialism, Transition, Local Communities and Identities)
- Author(s):Gordana Gorunović
- Language:Serbian
- Subject(s):Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure , Post-Communist Transformation
- Page Range:190-207
- No. of Pages:18
- Keywords:socialism;postsocialism; transition;local communities; rearticulation of identity;
- Summary/Abstract:In the first section of this paper, I describe the new field in anthropology and other disciplines called transition studies, focusing on its thematic and problemic emphases, analytical, interpretive, and ideological categories. In the second section, I point to some topics that can be projected to transition studies from the phenomenological and empirical field of post-Socialist conditions in Balkan societies. The examples are two rural communities, which in the period of post-Socialism are facing new challenges – in the case of (ethnically homogenous) village Stakevci in northwestern Bulgaria, crisis of identity and survival; in the case of Orahovac, Boka Kotorska, Montenegro, the demands for the reconstruction of "national culture" in the function of preservation of ethnic, cultural and national identity.
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Predstavljanje projekta Spinning out of control: rhetoric and violent conflict. Representations of 'self' - 'other' in the Yugoslav successor states
Predstavljanje projekta Spinning out of control: rhetoric and violent conflict. Representations of 'self' - 'other' in the Yugoslav successor states
(Presentation of the Project Spinning out of control: rhetoric and violent conflict. Representations of 'self' - 'other' in the Yugoslav successor states)
- Author(s):Jelena Vasiljević
- Language:Serbian
- Subject(s):Media studies, Political behavior, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
- Page Range:208-217
- No. of Pages:10
- Keywords:media rhetoric; discourse on other;conflicts;ex-Yugoslavia;
- Summary/Abstract:This paper aims to present an interdisciplinary and international project, carried out jointly by the University in Oslo, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory in Belgrade, and Mediacenter in Sarajevo. Its purpose is to study the role of media rhetoric and discourses on the Other, in the ethnic and territorial conflicts in former Yugoslavia. In this paper, I describe the project’s aims, research organization, covered topics as well as approaches that will be used. In the conclusion, I offer some points of criticism that can be taken into account in order to enable a more adequate attainment of the project’s goals.
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