Historical and psychoanalytic methods in the study of society and culture

Pre-requisites: There are no requirements for attendance.

Course objectives: The goal of course is to teach students the historical method of studying the society, to discover and interpret historical sources and literature, the structure, function and symbolism of social and cultural phenomena shown in a Historical Perspective.

Course description: The course incorporates three main objectives: 1. Positioning the global reconstruction of social and cultural history; 2. Offering procedural - historical, functional and symbolic - approaches to the study of phenomena within the global social system; 3. Training for a specific historiographic and ethnographic study of all available sources, specifically archival and of the demographic structure. In this regard literature that deals with general issues of relations between history and anthropology, and literature that introduces the interpretation historiographic sources as ethnographic sources, will be presented. Works of: L. H. Morgan, K. Marx, A. R. Radcliff-Brown, M. Godelier, E.E.Evans-Pritchard, U. Wesel and other authors will be discussed. Presented in preparation for research in archives, museums, statistical offices, libraries and similar institutions.

Learning Outcomes: Knowledge of the historical approaches to society, the discovery and interpretation of historical sources (specifically archives), and literature, showing the structure, function and symbolism of social and cultural events in historical perspective.

Literature/Reading:

• L. H. Morgan, Drevno društvo, Prosveta, Beograd, 1981, 7-69
• A. R. Retklif-Braun, Struktura i funkcija u primitivnom društvu, Biblioteka XX vek, Prosveta, Beograd 1982, 5-23.
• M. Godelier, Marksizam i antropologija, Školska knjiga, Zagreb, 1982, 56-65.
• E. E. Evans Pričard, Socijalna antropologija, Biblioteka XX vek, Prosveta, Beograd, 1983, 41-65, 165-194.
• E. Hobsbaum, Nacije i nacionalizam od 1780. Program, mit, stvarnost, Beograd, 1996, 7-20. 5. B. Anderson, Nacija: zamišljena zajednica, Plato, Beograd, 1998, 16-52.
• U. Vezel, Mit o matrijarhatu, Prosveta, Beograd, 1983, 7-75
• B. Ćupurdija, Porodica kolonista u Bajmoku 1945-1948, Srpski genealoški centar, Beograd, 2005, 232 strane
• C. Levi-Strauss, Strukturalna antropologija, Stvarnost, Zagreb, 1989, poglavlje I – Uvod: Povijest i etnologija, 11-36.
• F. Putinja i Ž. S. Fenar, Teorije o etnicitetu, Biblioteka XX vek, Beograd, 1997, 5-17, 66-70.
• K. S. Hol i G. Lindzi, Teorije ličnosti, Nolit, Beograd, 1983, 55-88, 125-160, 162-202.
• Izmišljanje tradicije, uredio E. Hobsbaum i T. Rejndžer, Biblioteka XX vek, Beograd, 2002.
• R. K. Merton, O teorijskoj sociologiji, Zagreb, 1979, 80-152.
• V. Jerotić, Darovi naših rođaka. Psihološki ogledi iz domaće književnosti, Prosveta, Beograd, 1984, 2/1993 i 3/1999.
• V. Jerotić, Jung između Istoka i Zapada, Prosveta, Beograd, 1990.
• V. Jerotić, Čovek i njegov identitet, Gornji Milanovac: Dečje novine, 1989.
• V. Jerotić, Psihoanaliza i kultura, BIGZ, Beograd, 1976. 1-174