Anthropology of violence and crime

Pre-requisites: There are no specific prerequisites for attendance.

Course objectives: The full knowledge that students gained from the anthropological stance on violence and criminality in the undergraduate and master's studies, and training skills to independently research these issues and their broader social and scientific contextualization.

Course description: Definition of terms "culture", "violence", "crime" and related glossary terms - Classification of violent actions, their causes and factors, and social response to violent behavior - Previous theoretical approaches to the study of violence - Anthropological approach to the study of violence - Methods of collection and processing of scientific data related to violence

Learning Outcomes: Training for self-identification of problems, planning and execution of research and analysis and interpretation of results related to violence and crime.

Literature/Reading:

• P.Hillyard and others (eds.), Beyond Criminology: Taking Harm Seriously, Pluto Press, London 2004, 56.
• Frojd, S., O seksualnoj teoriji- Totem i tabu, Matica Srpska, Novi Sad 1969, 266-273.
• Ehrenreich, B., Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War, Metropolitan Books, New York 1997.
• Malinowski, B., Crime and Custom in Savage Society, Littlefield, Adams and Company, Totowa 1967.
• Lorenc, K., O agresivnosti, Vuk Karadžić, Beograd 1970.
• R.Dworkin, Lifes s Dominion: An argument about Abortion and Euthanasia, HarperCollins Publishers, London 1993.
• C.Kay Weaver and C.Carter (eds.), Critical Readings: Violence and the Media, Open University Press, Maidenhead and New York, 2006.
• J.Hanmer and others (eds.), Home truths about domestic violence: Feminist influences on policy and practice a reader, Routledge, London 2000.