National ethnology / anthropology - City and Culture

Pre-requisites: No specific preconditions, but the use of the knowledge gained in the course is expected. Urban anthropology

Course objectives: The course aims to develop the creative abilities of students in the final year of study and refer them to the use of artworks as texts for the analysis of urban life.

Course description: The subject deals with the relationship between urbanity and art, and examines how the problems of urban life are portrayed in the works of art, specifically in literature and film. Topics that are covered under the Urban anthropology course (in the previous year) will be examined through artistic expressions, such as: urban space and time, immigration and adjustment to urban life, family and kinship, culture, social class and their mobility (culture of poverty, middle class and elite), ethnicity and social networks and ethnic relations.

Learning Outcomes: The course enables students to reflect independently, to creatively analyze works of art (with written and visual expression) as texts for the study of urban culture and society.

Literature/Reading:

• Bel D., Bini Dž., Teatar surovosti, reke požude: erotičnost ulice, u Prizori ulice: planiranje, identitet i kontrola u javnom prostoru, Nikolas Fajf (ur), Beograd, Klio 2002, 182-196.
• Clarke D. B., The Cinematic City, Routledge, 1997.
• Clifford J., Routes: Travel and Translation in the Late Twentieth Century, Harvard University Press, 1997.
• Dorst J.D., The Written Suburb: An American Site, an Ethnographic Dilemma, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989.
• Hsiao-Peng Lu S., Transnational Chinese Cinemas: Identity, Nationhood, Gender, University of Hawaii Press, 1997.
• Noris D., Balkanski mit: pitanja identiteta i modernosti, Geopolitika, Beograd, 2002, 151-181.
• Stevenson D., Cities and Urban Cultures, Open University Press, 2003.
• Clifford J., Marcus G.E. (eds.), Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography, University of California Press, 1986, (rad P. Rabinowa), 234-261.
• Edwards E., Raw Histories: Photographs, Anthropology and Museums, Berg, 2001.
• Ginsburg F.D., Abu-Luhod L., Larkin B. (eds.), Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain, University of California Press, 2002.
• Knowles C., Sweetman P., Picturing the Social Landscape: Visual Methods in the Sociological Imagination, Routledge, 2004.
• Muller A., Concepts of Culture: Art, Politics, and Society, University of Calgary Press, 2005.
• Virdi I., The Cinematic Imagination: Indian Popular Films as Social History, Rutgers University Press, 2003.