Anthropology of labour and leisure

Pre-requisites: There are no preconditions

Course objectives: Training students to recognize the action of fundamental models of success in labor, a desirable behavior and success in society, to analytically observe the tourist phenomenon, extrapolating the components to determine their meaning and function

Course description: Anthropology of work and leisure is composed of two parts: The study of the social model of established success in labor, success in society and the rise in the social structure. Models of success in the employment are reflected in folklore, literature, rumors, and everyday speech, while segments of societies reflect their own ideas of success and ways of achieving it. Success as an escape from poverty, the acquisition of great wealth or fullness of “life” as fundamental models in various cultures. The study of tourism as a way of spending leisure time. Anthropology of Tourism and The study of tourism. Motivation needs and causes of tourism. Forms of tourism. Economic and social consequences.Politics and tourism - the concept of tourists: from the conquerors and pilgrims, spies and saboteurs, to the desired guest. Tourism, tradition and invention of tradition. Types of tourism - socially acceptable and unacceptable forms of tourism. Empirical basis classification of types of tourism. Tourism without the tourist base. Series of lectures for several weeks for a group larger than 2 students.

Learning Outcomes: Analytical and practical impact on the ability of understanding labor and success. Contribution to creating the preconditions for the organization of new forms of tourism through classroom activities, as well as the remodeling of the existing forms.

Literature/Reading:

• I.Kovačević,Antropologija tranzicije,Beograd,2007. 51-77.109-153.
• I.Kovačević,Semiologija mita i rituala, 1. Tradicija, 179-186.
• I.Kovačević, Semiologija mita i rituala, 2. Savremeno društvo, Beograd, 2001. 50-61, 181-211.
• D. Nesh, Tourism as an Anthropological Subject, Current Anthropology, Vol.22. No.5. 1981. 461-468.
• T. Nunjes, Turizam u antropološkoj perspektivi, Kultura 60-61, Beograd 1983, 100-110.
• H.Bauzinger, Etnologija, Beograd, 2002.174-196.
• J. Cawelti, The Apostles of The Self-Made Man, Univesity of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1965. 60-110.
• I. G. Wyllie, The Self-Made Man in America. The Myth of Rags to Rich, The Free Press, New York, 1954. 9-45.