National ethnology / anthropology - Myths and Rituals

Pre-requisites: No preconditions

Course objectives: The goal of course is the study of traditional ethnological and anthropological themes, myths and rituals, in a modern ambience of the city and urbanized villages. By monitoring the creation, transformation and disappearance, it is possible to review entire diachronically specific phenomena.

Course description: The methodological framework of the modern study of myths and legends. Modern Legends in Serbia. Modern rituals. Rituals of the modern village. Urban legends. Transitioning through technological forms from oral, written and spoken through to the media, fax machines and the Internet, from village context through to the city streets, urban legends and contemporary rituals have become the dominant forms of contemporary folklore. Presentation of a few dozen popular urban legends is accompanied by the elucidation of their creation, form, meaning and function which in turn recapitulates the contemporary assessment of folklore

Learning Outcomes: Through this course students can practice direct exploration of the existing observable data in their full and untainted form, which allows the introduction to the authentic field work in which all available information collection techniques are employed.

Literature/Reading:

• D.Antonijević, Ritual puštanja montažne trake u pogon u proizvodnji Juga 55 GV, Etnološke sveske 7, Bgd-Topola, 1986. 39-46.
• D.Antonijević, ''Svatovac'' i glamurozna venčanja, u Životni ciklus, Zbornik referata bugarsko-srpskog naučnog skupa, Sofija, 2000. 251-263.
• D.Antonijević, Treći pravac u folkloristici: sociološki pristup Gerija Alana Fajna, Etnoantropološki problemi, God. 1. br. 2. Beograd, 2006. 125-155.
• D.Antonijević, Merkantilne legende postindustrijskog društva, u S.Nedeljković (ur.), Antropologija savremenosti, Beograd, 2006. 76-90.
• D.Antonijević, Legende o krađi organa: moralna dilema savremenog društva, EAP, God.. 2. br.2. Beograd. 2007. 35-66.
• J.Baćević, Studentske legende o polaganju ispita: kritike ili afirmacija obrazovnog sistema?, Etnoantropološki problemi God.2. Br.2. Beograd, 2007. 87-100.
• D.Bratić, Ceremonija ispraćanja radnika u penziju, Etnološke sveske, 5. Bgd.1984. 99-104.
• D.Bratić - M.Malešević, Kuća kao statusni simbol, Etnološke sveske, 4. Bgd. 1982. 137-151.
• M.Vodopija, Maturiranje kao rite de passage, Narodna umjetnost, 13. Zagreb, 1976. 77-90.
• Lj.Hristić, Aligatori u Kanalizaciji. Urbane legende kao kognitivne mape, Etnoantropološki problemi, God.2. br.2. Beograd, 2007. 71-85.
• I.Kovačević, Semiologija mita i rituala, 2. Bgd. 2001. 7-22,25-75,79-134, 137-177,181-211. I.Kovačević, Semiologija mita i rituala, 3. Bgd., 2001. 7-35, 56-63.
• I.Kovačević, Antropologija tranzicije, Bgd. 2007. 11-77, 109-153.
• I.Kovačević, Urbane legende – američki i/ili urbani folklore, Etnoantropološki problemi, God. 2. br. 2. Beograd, 2007. 11-22.
• I.Kovačević, ''Porše'' i kolači. Advokatski advertajzing ili etnojurispudencijski saveti, Antropologija 3. Beograd. 2007. 7-21.
• I.Kovačević, Cokelore, Etnoantropološki problemi, God. 3. br. 1. Beograd,2008. 71-83.
• M.Malešević, Prijem u pionirsku organizaciju, Etnološke sveske, 5. Bgd. 1984. 73-82.
• M.Malešević, Osmi mart – od utopije do demagogije, GEI SANU, 36-37, Beograd, 1988. 53-80.
• S.Marchalonis, Three Medieval Tales and Their Modern Americans Analogues, Journal of the Folklore Institute, Vol.13. 1976. 173-84. A.Mayor, Ambiguous Guardians: the "Omen of the Wolves" (A.D. 402) and the "Choking Doberman" (1980s),Journal of Folklore Research, Vol. 29, 1992. 253-267.
• A.Novaković, Gastarbajterske svadbe u selima okoline Požarevca, The Post, Beograd, God. 1. Br.1. 31-36.
• P. Šarčević, Prvomajske proslave u Beogradu (1893-1988), Tokovi istorije, 1, Beograd, 1993. 71-113.