Theories of Culture and Science and Technology Studies

Pre-requisites: No specific requirements. Common preconditions specified by the Statute, relevant regulations and decisions.

Course objectives: The goal of course is to introduce a doctoral candidate to two interconnected research fields: cultural theory and studies of science and technology, and to enable them to carry out anthropological analysis of the relevant phenomena.

Course description: The subject incorporates two separate themes: Anthropology and multiculturalism, anthropology of science (and technology). Theories of culture emphasize the diversity of anthropological and other conjectures in the social and human sciences, and science and technology studies emphasize the socio-cultural contextualization of scientific production, dissemination and reception, as well as the cultural consequences of technological change.

Learning Outcomes: The ability of students to apply the anthropological analysis of a wide range of phenomena in the areas of inter-cultural relations, building and instrumentation of cultural identity, scientific and pseudo-scientific production and the impact of technology development in social change.

Literature/Reading:

• MILENKOVIĆ, Miloš. Postkulturna antropologija i multikulturne politike. U: KOVAČ, Senka (ur.). Problemi kulturnog identiteta stanovništva savremene Srbije, (Etnoantropološki problemi). Beograd: Odeljenje za etnologiju i antropologiju, Filozofski fakultet, 2005, str. 61-74.
• MILENKOVIĆ, Miloš. Paradoks postkulturne antropologije : postmoderna teorija etnografije kao teorija kulture. Antropologija, 2007, br. 3, str. 121-143.
• Turner, Terence 1993 Anthropology and Multiculturalism: What Is Anthropology That Multiculturalists Should Be Mindful of It? Cultural Anthropology 8: 411-29
• Scott, David 2003 Culture in Political Theory. Political Theory 31, 1: 92-115; Brumman, Christoph 1999 Writing for Culture: Why a Successful Concept Should Not be Discarded? Current Anthropology 40
• Hannerz, Ulf 1999 Reflections on Varieties of Culturespeak. European Journal of Cultural Studies 2, 3: 393–407; Hannerz U 1993 When culture is everywhere: reflections on a favorite concept. Ethnos 58: 95–111
• Martin, Emily 1998 Anthropology and the Cultural Study of Science: Science, Technology and Human Values 23, 1: 24-44; Woolgar, S. 1991 What is Anthropological About the Anthropology of Science? Current Anthropology 32, 1: 79-81
• Latour, Bruno 1990 Postmodern? No, Simply AModern! Steps Towards an Anthropology of Science. Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science 21, 1: 145-171
• Franklin, Sarah. 1995 Science as culture, cultures of science. Annual Review of Anthropology 24:163-184; Latour, Bruno and Steve Woolgar 1986 Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts. Princeton: Princeton University Press (An Anthropologist Visits the Laboratory, 43-90)
• Latour, B. 2005 Nikada nismo bili moderni: Ogled iz simetrične antropologije. Zagreb: Arkzin