National ethnology / anthropology - Nonverbal Communication

Pre-requisites: Without preconditions.

Course objectives: Enabling students to master the theoretical and methodological apparatus of scientific information relevant to nonverbal communication, and introducing students to the theoretical and methodological tools of scientific explanations of nonverbal communication.

Course description: Theoretical lessons: 1. Defining a classification and fundamental forms of physical non-verbal communication 2. Previous approaches to the study of nonverbal body communication 3. Gestures 4. Sign Language 5 Corporal spatial behavior 6 Cultural determining the expression of the affective

Learning Outcomes: Setting the basis for the conceptual and practical elaboration for the possible application of knowledge in terms of developing cultural expertise in cross-cultural studies, for an enhanced comprehension of other cultures.

Literature/Reading:

• • Žikić, Bojan (2002a), Antropologija gesta I: pristupi, Beograd: Srpski genealoški centar, Etnološka biblioteka knj.7, 17-36, 75-132.
• • Žikić,Bojan (2002b), Antropologija gesta II: savremena kultura, Beograd: Srpski genealoški centar, Etnološka biblioteka knj.8, 5-254.
• • Ekman, Pol (2011),Razotkrivene emocije, Beograd:Zavod za udžbenike, 37-55; 271-291.
• • Ekman, Pol (2009), “Pogovor: Univerzalnost izražavanja emocija? Lična istorija kontroverze“, u Čars Darvin, Izražavanje emocija kod čoveka i životinja, Beograd:Dosije, 351-381.
• • Kendon, Adam (1997), Gesture, Annual Review of Anthropology 26, 109-128.
• • Moris, Dezmond (1977/2005), Otkrivanje čoveka kroz gestove i ponašanje, Niš: Zograf
• • Rot, Nikola (2010), Znakovi i značenja, Beograd: Zavod za udžbenike, 74-170.
• • Žikić,Bojan (2004a), Gest u egzoteričnom kontekstu GEI SANU LII, Beograd 2004, 17-28
• • Žikić,Bojan (2004b), Sima Trojanović kao preteča etnološkog proučavanja ljudskog tela u Srbiji, Glasnik Etnografskog muzeja 68-69, 9-21.
• • McNeill, David (1992), Hand and Mind. What Gestures Reveal about Thought, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 11-35, 245-272.
• • Trebješanin, Žarko (2009), „Darvinovo odgonetanje emocionalnih izraza“, u Čarls Darvin, Izražavanje emocija kod čoveka i životinja, Beograd: Dosije, 7-21.
• • Trebješanin, Žarko (2011), „Ekmanovo dekodiranje facijalnih izraza emocije“, u Pol Ekman, Razotkrivene emocije, Beograd: Zavod za udžbenike, 9-27.