Ethnological and anthropological theories

Pre-requisites: There are no prerequisites for taking this course.

Course objectives: The main objective of the course is the acquisition of necessary knowledge about the history of anthropology and ethnology, and their main theoretical paradigms.

Course description: Definition of ethnological and anthropological paradigms, perspectives, theories and schools Introductory interpretation of the history of anthropology and ethnology Orientation, school paradigm Scientific biographies of leading representatives of the main schools of thought in the history of ethnological and anthropological theories and methods in general.

Learning Outcomes: Students should master the conceptual apparatus of the disciplinary paradigms, develop the capacity for reading and interpreting original literature, extend their writing skills to produce course papers, and develop skills for verbal communication and presentation of their analysis.

Literature/Reading:

• Aleksandar Bošković, Kratak uvod u antropologiju, Zagreb: Jesenski i Turk, 2010. str. 117-198.
• Kliford Gerc. posebno izdanje časopisa Kultura br. 118/119, Beograd, 2009, str. 9-201. Broj dostupan na sajtu http://www.zaprokul.org.rs/CasopisKultura/DetaljniPrikaz.aspx?ID=118/119
• Margaret Mead, Spol i temperament u tri primitivna društva, Zagreb: Jesenski i Turk, 2004.
• Fredrik Barth, Andre Gingrich, Robert Parkin, and Sydel Silverman, One Discipline, Four Ways: British, German, French, and American Anthropology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.
• Aleksandar Bošković (ed.), Other People’s Anthropologies: Ethnographic Practice on the Margins. New York and Oxford: Berghahn, 2008.
• Aleksandar Bošković i Suzana Ignjatović, “Understanding Ethnic Conflicts through Rational Choice: A Review Article.” Ethnos 77(2): 289-295. 2012.
• James Clifford, The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988.
• Luj Dimon, Ogledi o individualizmu: antropološki pristup modernoj ideologiji, Clio, Beograd, 2004.
• George Marcus i Michael Fischer, Antropologija kao kritika kulture: eksperimentalni trenutak u humanističkim znanostima, Zagreb: Breza, 2003.
• Aleksandar Bošković; Antropološke perspektive. Beograd: Institut društvenih nauka, 2014. str. 11-123.
• Thomas Hylland Eriksen and Finn Sievert Nielsen; A History of Anthropology. London: Pluto Press, 2013.
• Clifford Geertz; The Interpretation of Cultures. New York: Basic Books, 1973.
• Clifford Geertz; Local Knowledge: Further Essays in Interpretive Anthropology. New York: Basic Books, 1983.
• Clifford Geertz; Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988.
• Clifford Geertz, Available Light: Anthropological Reflections on Philosophical Topics. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000.
• Henrietta L. Moore; The Subject of Anthropology: Gender, Symbolism and Psychoanalysis. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2007.
• Marko Pišev; Izvori za praistoriju etnologije islamskog sveta: Ibn Batutina putovanja kroz Aziju i Afriku (1325-1354). Etnoantropološki problemi 8(4): 1025-1046.
• Aleksandar Bošković, "Dometi kritike liberalizma", u (Anti)liberalizam i ekonomija, str. 331-338. Beograd: Institut društvenih nauka, 2014.
• Srđan Radović, "Relativizam i antropologija". Glasnik Etnografskog instituta SANU LIV, str. 389-402, 2006. tekst dostupan na sajtu anthroserbia.org
• Suzana Ignjatović, "Sociologija i (anti)liberalizam", u (Anti)liberalizam i ekonomija, str. 360-367. Beograd: Institut društvenih nauka, 2014.
• Boris Begović, "Gary S. Becker - ekonomski imperijalista". Ekonomski anali 162, str. 275-300, 2004. http://ea.ekof.bg.ac.rs/pdf/162/Boris%20Begovic.pdf
• Kliford Gerc, Antropolog kao pisac. Prevele Gordana Gorunović i Ivana Spasić. Beograd: Biblioteka XX vek, 2010.
• Olga Supek, "Etnologija u svijetu i mi: pogled s periferije". Etnološke sveske 8, str. 65-70, 1987. Tekst dostupan na sajtu anthroserbia.org
• Bojan Žikić, "Terensko istraživanje i naučno znanje u etnologiji i antropologiji". Antropologija 12(1), str. 9-25, 2012.
• Bojan Žikić, Slike u izlogu. Kulturne predstave o Evropskoj uniji kao sredstvo opisivanja paralelne stvarnosti stanju u Srbiji 1991-2011. Beograd: SGC i Filozofski fakultet, 2014.
• Aleksandar Bošković, Mit politika ideologija. Ogledi iz komparativne antropologije. Beograd: Institut društvenih nauka, 2006.
• Marko Pišev, "Gelnerova kritika postmodernizma: relativizam, postmodernizam i politika antropologije", Etno-antropološke sveske n.s. 12(1), str. 33-65, 2008.
• Aleksandar Bošković, "Postmodernizam, antropologija i zdrav razum". Sociologija XL (2), str. 211-232.