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:

• Asad, Talal, ed., Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter, Humanity Books, New York 1973.
• Ortner, S. B. „Theory in Anthropology since the Sixties“, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 26, no 1.(Jan., 1984), pp. 126-166.
• Barnard, A. History and Theory in Anthropology, Cambridge University Press, 2000.
• Eriksen, T. H., F. Sivert Nielsen, A History of Anthropology, London, Sterling, Pluto Press 2001.
• Kuper, A., Culture: The Anthropologists’ Account, Cambridge, Mass., London, Harvard Universtity Press, 2001.
• Todorov, C., Mi i drugi: Francuska misao o ljudskoj raznolikosti, Beograd, Biblioteka XX vek, 1994, 257-272, 339-349.
• Milenković, M., Problem etnografski stvarnog: Polemika o Samoi u krizi etnografskog realizma, Beograd 2003, 88-150.
• Milenković, M. Istorija postmoderne antropologije: Teorija etnografije, Beograd, Srpski genealoški centar: Etnološka biblioteka, 2007.
• Milenković, M., Istorija postmoderne antropologije: Posle postmodernizma. Beograd, Srpski genealoški centar: Etnoloska biblioteka, 2007.
• Levi-Strauss, C., Tužni tropi, Zepter, Beograd 1999.
• Hayes, N. E., Tanya Hayes, eds., Claude Levi-Strauss: The Anthropologist as Hero, M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England 1972.
• Lič, E., Kultura i komunikacija, Prosveta, Bibl. XX vek, Beograd 1983.
• Žikić, B., Antropologija Edmunda Liča, Pos. Izdanja EI SANU, Beograd 1997.
• Daglas, M., Prirodni simboli: istraživanje o kosmologiji, Svetovi/Oktoih, Novi Sad /Podgorica 1994.
• Gerc, K., Tumačenje kultura I-II, Izdanje Bibl. XX vek i Čigoja štampa, Beograd 1998.
• Moore, H. L., Anthropological Theory at the Turn of the Century, u: H. L. Moore, ed., Anthropological Theory Today, Cambridge: Polity Press 1999, pp. 1-23.
• Weiner, J., Psychoanalysis and Anthropology: On the Temporality of Analysis, u: H. L. Moore, ed., Anthropological Theory Today, 235-261.
• Kovač, S., Marsel Griol i naučna preispitivanja na kraju dvadesetog veka, Beograd: Muzej Afričke umetnosti, 2007.
• Marcus,G. E., M. J. Fischer, Antropologija kao kritika kulture: Eksperimentalni trenutak u humanističkim znanostima, Naklada Breza, Zagreb 2003.
• J. D. Moore, Uvod u antropologiju. Teorije i teoretičari kulture, Naklada Jesenski i Turk, Zagreb 2002: E. B. Leakok, 265-276; Levi-Strauss, 285-299; V. Turner, 303-314; C. Geertz, 317-329; M. Douglas, 331-347; J. Fernandez, 349-360; 363-368.
• G. E. Marcus i Michael M. J. Fischer, Antropologija kao kritika kulture: eksperimentalni trenutak u humanističkim znanostima, Naklada Breza, Zagreb, 2003, 21-223.
• Kliford Gerc. Posebno izdanje časopisa Kultura broj 118-119. Priredio Aleksandar Bošković. Beograd, 2007, str. 7-201.
• E. Gellner, Postmodernizam, razum i religija, Jesenski i Turk, Zagreb 2000.
• M. Ože, Prilog antropologiji savremenih svetova, Biblioteka XX vek, Beograd 2003.
• Thomas Hylland Eriksen, “Rebuilding ship at sea: An anthropologist’s attempt to make sense of contemporary world history”. Eric Wolf Lecture, 2008. [kopija teksta u biblioteci Odeljenja]
• Bošković, Aleksandar, 1998. Postmodernizam, antropologija i zdrav razum. Sociologija XL (2), str. 211-242.
• A. Bošković, "Socio-kulturna antropologija danas", Sociologija, Vol. XLIV (2002), N° 4, Beograd, str. 329-342.
• Miloš Milenković, “Posle postmoderne teorije etnografije”, str. 137-160 u Istorija postmoderne antropologije: Posle postmodernizma, Srpski genealoški centar, Beograd, 2007.
• Miloš Milenković, “Idealni etnograf”, u Istorija postmoderne antropologije: Teorija etnografije, str. 41-66. Srpski genealoški centar, Beograd, 2007.
• J. Clifford and G. E. Marcus, eds., Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography, University of California Press, 1986.
• A. Bošković, Kratak uvod u antropologiju, Službeni glasnik, Beograd, 2010.
• M. Mead, Spol i temperament u tri primitivna društva. Jesenski i Turk, Zagreb, 2004.
• A. Bošković, Mit, politika, ideologija. Institut društvenih nauka, Beograd, 2006.