General methodology of Ethnology and Anthropology

Pre-requisites: No preconditions

Course objectives: Final methodological preparation for students aiming to create a doctoral dissertation.

Course description: Classes are theoretical and not practical. Numerous methodologies, methodological directions and more specific methodological procedures will be processed separately: The methods of the British structural-functionalism Semiotic-semantic interpretation Artifact analysis Case-study method

Learning Outcomes: The students are taught how to adequately use the methodological apparatus suitable for their doctoral dissertation.

Literature/Reading:

• B.Žikić,Antropologija Edmunda Liča, Beograd, 1997.7-120.
• I.Kovačević, Semiologija mita i rituala,1.Tradicija, Beograd,2001.7-202.
• D.Sinani, Priviđenja i sablasti u Srbiji. Istraživanja u požeškom i knjaževačkom kraju, Knjaževac, 2005.
• I.Erdei,Antropologija potrošnje, Beograd, 2008.
• Z.Ivanović,Teren antropologije i terensko istraživanje pre i posle kritike reprezentacije,Etnologija i antropologija: stanje i perspektive,Zbornik Etnografskog instituta SANU 21, Beograd,200
• Bojan Žikić (2006.a), Antropologija AIDS-a. Rizično ponašanje intravenskih korisnika droge, Filozofski fakultet i Srpski genealoški centar, Etnološka biblioteka knj.19, Beograd, 13-29, 241-254
• Bojan Žikić (2006.b), Antropološka analiza HIV-vulnerabilnosti i rizičnog ponašanja u Beogradu, u Zorica Divac (ur.), Svakodnevna kultura u postsocijalističkom periodu u Srbiji i Bugarskoj, Zbornik rad
• Bojan Žikić (2008), Rizik i nasilje. Antropološko proučavanje seksualnog rada u Beogradu, Srpski genealoški centar i Odeljenje za etnologiju i antropologiju Filozofskog fakulteta u Beogradu, Etnološka bib
• Bojan Žikić (2006.a), Managing HIV/HCV-related Risk at Private Places Among Belgrade Injecting Drug Users, Bulletin of the Institute of Ethnography LIV, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts,
• Bojan Žikić (2006.b), Anthropology of AIDS. Risk environment and injecting routine. The case of Belgrade injecting drug users, Issues in Ethnology and Anthropology, Vol. 1, No. 1 (n.s), 35-4
• Bojan Žikić (2007), Qualitative Field Research in Anthropology. An Overview of Basic Research Methodology, Issues in Ethnology and Anthropology, Vol. 2, No. 2 (n.s.), 123-135
• Appadurai, A. (ed). 1986. The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Pearce, S. (ed.) 1994. Interpreting Objects and Collections. London: Routledge.
• Gosden, C. and Y. Marshall. 1999. The Cultural Biography of Objects, World Archaeology 31, 169-178.
• S. Kovač. 2010. Etnološka terenska istraživanja Dogona kao predmet preispitivanja. Glasnik Etnografskog instituta SANU 2(58): 59-71.
• D. Velimirović. Kulturna biografija grandiozne mode: Priča o kolekciji Vitraž Aleksandra Joksimovića. Etnoantropološki problemi god. 1, sv. 2, 2006, 91-104.
• Žikić, Bojan (2012) Terensko istraživanje i naučno znanje u etnologiji i antropologiji. Antropologija 12, sv. 1, 9-25
• Eileen Barker (1983), Supping with the Devil: How Long a Spoon Does the Sociologist Need?, Sociological Analysis, Vol. 44, No. 3, 197-205.
• J. Gordon Melton (1999), The Rise of the Study of New Religions, Cesnur
• Thomas Robbins, Dick Anthony, James Richardson (1978), Theory and Research on Today’s "New Religions", Sociological Analysis, Vol. 39, No. 2, 9-122.
• Vesna, Vučinić-Nešković. 2013. Metodologija terenskog istraživanja u antropologiji. Beograd, Srpski genealoški centar i Odeljenje za etnologiju i antropologiju Filozofksog fakutleta u Beogradu
• V. Vučinić-Nešković. 2008. Božić u Boki Kotorskoj: antropološki eseji o javnom nalaganju badnjaka u doba postsocijalizma. Beograd, Filozofski fakultet u Beogradu i Čigoja štampa.