Urban anthropology

Pre-requisites: No specific requirements. The Course is however compulsory for all third year students of ethnology and anthropology.

Course objectives: The subject has three objectives, namely: the introduction of students to the problems that urban anthropology is presently engaged with, the development of scientific thought and intellectual discussions, as well as encouraging independent research in the field of urban phenomena and processes.

Course description: The course tackles major theoretical issues that define the city as a detached spatial and cultural entity, as well as the particularity of urban life. Content items include topics such as: history of development of urban anthropology in the world and in Serbia, definition of "urban", sources and methods in exploration of the city, settlement and adaptation of migrants to urban life, social organization and interpersonal relations in the city, social class and ethnicity. In the simple but well-rounded field studies or small group projects, students will develop topics related to the construction of urban space in everyday life, rituals and art.

Learning Outcomes: This course enables students to think creatively and observe the research problems and to independently carry out minor field researches in the urban environment.

Literature/Reading:

• Virt L., Urbanizam kao način života, Urbana sociologija, M. Petrović i S. Vujović (ur), Zavod za udžbenike i nastavna sredstva, Beograd, 2005, 111-128.
• Vučinić V., Antropologija u "divljim" naseljima: pogled na Staro sajmište u Beogradu, Glasnik Etnografskog instituta 44, Beograd, 2005, 168-184.
• Vučinić V., Matić J., Etnička i teritorijalna distanca između srpske i romske dece školskog uzrasta, Status manjina u Saveznoj Republici Jugoslaviji, Naučni skupovi SANU 84, Beograd, 1995.
• Vučinić V., Antonijević S., Društvena funkcija i simbolika beogradskog korza u vreme Kraljevine Jugoslavije (1931-1941), Glasnik etnografskog instituta 47, Etnografski institut SANU, 1998, 85-101.
• Vučinić V., Prostorno ponašanje u Dubrovniku: antropološka studija grada sa ortogonalnom strukturom, Filozofski fakultet Univerziteta u Beogradu, Beograd, 1999 (Poglavlja 1,3, 7, 11 i 12).
• Gmelch G., Zenner W.P., Urban Life: Readings in Urban Anthropology, Waveland Press INc., Prospect Heights, Illinois, 1996 (odabrana poglavlja).
• Erdei I., Teorije i koncepti o potrošnji u savremenoj antropologiji, Doktorska teza, Filozofski fakultet Univerziteta u Beogradu, 2007 (Poglavlje 6. Potrošnja u postsocijalističkoj Srbiji)
• Zimel G., Veliki gradovi i duhovni život, Urbana sociologija, Petrović M., Vujović S. (ur), Zavod za udžbenike i nastavna sredstva, Beograd, 2005, 69-78.
• Ivanović Z., Gradska porodica u sistemu srodničkih odnosa - prilog proučavanju, Etnološke sveske 9, Beograd i Novi Pazar, 1988, 155-167.
• Lazić M., Klasna osnova civilnog društva u Srbiji, Promene i otpori, I.P. Filip Višnjić, Beograd, 2005, 61-99.
• Low, S.M., Urban Fear: Building the Fortress City, City and Society: annual review, 1997, 53-73.
• Mimica A., Bogdanović M.(ur) Sociološki rečnik, Zavod za udžbenike i nastavna sredstva, Beograd, 2006 (dezurbanizacija, geto, grad, metorpola, rezidencijalna segregacija, srednja klasa, elite)
• Rotenberg R., Time and Order in Metropolitan Vienna: a seizure of schedules, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington DC, 1992 (Poglavlje 8, 181-207).
• Santino J., Signs of War and Peace: Social Conflict and the Use of Public Symbols in Northern Ireland, Palgrave, New York, 2001, 1-25, 25-49 (Poglavlja 1 i 2).
• Hayden R., Antagonistic Tolerance: Competitive Sharing of Religious Sites in South Asia and the Balkans" with CA Comment, Current Anthropology 43.2 (April, 2002), 205-233.
• Young M., The Metronomic Society, Thames and Hudson, London, 1988, 195-230 (Poglavlje 6)