Political anthropology

Pre-requisites: Students must have completed the registration requirements for that year.

Course objectives: Students are expected to adopt a modern view of political anthropology, which contributes to a more balanced understanding of the dynamics of political life in view of transition, globalization, dissolution of state sovereignty and supranational integration.

Course description: The first comprehensive theoretical lecture unit includes: positioning political anthropology in the political sciences, political systems of pre-industrial societies, development of the state; segmented tribal organization and political significance of the territory, social stratification, kinship, gender and power, power of rituals and dramaturgy of power, political alliances and the war in tribal societies. Practical learning through workshops include: the discovery of the new world and the beginnings of colonialism, orientalism and nationalism; Post-colonialism logic of cultural renewal. In other topics, theoretical training shall include: assessments of a modern state, government, systems and regimes, political ideology, political culture and traditions, culture wars, political communication, social memory and oblivion, contemporary political myths, the political symbolism and political rituals. Practical learning through workshops include: problems of democratic transition and consolidation, the political change in the light of everyday life, European integration.

Learning Outcomes: Identification, proper examination and successful explanation of problems using scientific theories and methods related to the science of politics. Mastering the ability of tolerant debate on social issues. Advancement of critically-minded and responsible citizens.

Literature/Reading:

• M. Abeles, Antropologija države, XX vek, Beograd, 2001.
• Ž. Balandije, Politička antropologija, XX vek, Beograd, 1997.
• E. Hejvud, Politika, Clio, Beograd, 2004.
• T. Luelen, Uvod u političku antropologiju, Gradac, Čačak-Beograd, 2001.
• Č. Čupić (ur.), Politička antropologija. Hrestomatija, Fakultet političkih nauka Univerziteta u Beogradu, Beograd, 2002.
• J. Vincent, ed., The Anthropology of Politics, Blackwell Publishing, 2002.
• J. Vincent, Anthropology and Politics: Visions, Traditions, and Trends, University of Arizona Press, 1994.
• S. Naumović: “Ustaj seljo, ustaj rode: Simbolika seljaštva i politička komunikacija u novijoj istoriji Srbije”, Godišnjak za društvenu istoriju, Godina II, Sveska 1, 1995, 39-63.
• S. Naumović: “Instrumentalised Tradition: Traditionalist Rhetoric, Nationalism and Political Transition in Serbia, 1987-1990”, u: Miroslav Jovanović, Karl Kaser, Slobodan Naumović (Eds.), Between the Archives and the Field. A Dialogue on Historical Anthropology of the Balkans, Zur Kunde Südosteuropas - Band II/24,Udruženje za društvenu istoriju - Posebna izdanja / Teorija I/1, Belgrade-Graz, 179-217.
• C. Offe: “Capitalism by Democratic Design? Democratic Theory Facing the Triple Transition in East Central Europe”, u: isti, Varieties of Transition. The East European and East German Experience, Cambridge, Polity Press, 29-49.
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• L. Holy: “Self-stereotypes and national traditions”, The Little Czech and the Great Czech Nation. National identity and the post-communist social transformation, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996, 72-113.
• J. Friedman: “Transnationalisation, Socio-Political Disorder, and Ethnification as Expressions of Declining Global Hegemony”, J. Vincent, ed., The Anthropology of Politics, Blackwell Publishing, 2002, 285-300.
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• E.E. Evans-Pričard: “Nuersko političko uređenje”, u: isti, Socijalna antropologija, Prosveta, Beograd, 307-383.
• V. Tarner: “Društvene drame i obredne metafore”, Gradina 5-6, 1983, 24-50.
• J. Đorđević, Političke svetkovine i rituali, Dosije/Signature, Beograd, 1997.
• G. Olmond: “Političko istraživanje kulture – osvrt i prikaz”, Treći program, Leto-jesen, 1990, 63-75.
• K. Đordano: “Prošlost u sadašnjosti. Politika vremena u evropskim društvima” i “Mobilisana istorija u mediteranskim društvima”, u: isti, Ogledi o interkulturnoj komunikaciji, XX vek, Beograd, 2001, 69-97, 99-121.
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• H. Lebovics: “Introduction” i “Conclusion”, u: isti, True France. The Wars over Cultural Identity 1900-1945, Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London, 1992, 1-11, 189-203.
• P. Bourdieu: “Opisivanje i propisivanje: uvjeti ostvarljivosti političke djelotvornosti i njezine granice”, u: isti, Što znači govoriti. Ekonomija jezičkih razmena, Naprijed, Zagreb, 1992, 127-138.
• T. Bottomore: “Politička sociologija”, u: isti, Politička sociologija, Kulturno-prosvjetni sabor Hrvatske, Zagreb, 1987, 33-46.
• M. Gluckman: “Stateless Societies and the Maintenance of Order” i “The State and Civil Strife”, u: isti, Politics, Law and Ritual in Tribal Society, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1965, 81-122, 123-168.
• R. W. Nicholas: “Segmentary Factional Political Systems”, M. J. Swartz, V.W. Turner and A. Tuden (eds.), Political Anthropology, Aldine Publishing Group, Chicago, 1966, 49-59.
• N. Šanon: “Politički savezi, trgovina i gozbe” i “Ratovanje Janomame”, u: isti, Janomame. Okrutni narod, Svetovi, Novi Sad, 1992, 171-233.
• V. Turner: “Symbols in African Ritual”, J. L. Dolgin, D.S. Kemnitzer, and D.M. Schneider (eds.), Symbolic Anthropology. A Reader in the Study of Symbols and Meanings, Columbia University Press, New York, 1977, 183-194.
• A. Cohen: “Introduction: The Power Mystique” i “Conclusion: Universalism and Particularism in Elite Organization”, u: isti, The Politics of Elite Culture. Explorations in the Dramturgy of Power in a Modern African Society, University of California Press, Berkeley/Los Angeles/London, 1981, 1-16, 216-237.
• M. Miterauer: Milenijumi i druge jubilarne godine, Udruženje za društvenu istoriju, Beograd, 2003.
• M. J. Swartz, V.W. Turner and A. Tuden (eds.): “Introduction”, u: isti, Political Anthropology, Aldine Publishing Group, Chicago, 1966, 1-41.
• B. Anzulovic: “Dinaric Highlanders and their Songs”, u: isti, Heavenly Serbia. From Myth to Genocide, Hurst, London, 45-67.
• A. Cohen: “Political man-symbolist man” i “Symbolic strategies in group organization”, u: isti, Two-Dimensional Man. An Essay on the anthropology of power and symbolism in complex society, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1974, 48-64, 65-89.
• C. Riviere: “Types d’organisation politique”, u: isti, Anthropologie politique, Armand Colin, Paris, 2000, 52-71.
• S. Antonić: “Politička kultura stanovništva u Miloševićevoj Srbiji”, Zarobljena zemlja. Srbija za vlade Slobodana Miloševića, Otkrovenje, Beograd, 2002, 62-81.
• M. Podunavac: “Politički proces”, u: M. Matić (gl. red.), Enciklopedija političke kulture, Savremena administracija, Beograd, 1993, 858-864.
• M. Abeles: “Political anthropology: new challenges, new aims”, International Social Science Journal, 153/1997, 319-332.
• D. Iordanova: “Violence: ‘Violated Trust’, Indoctrination, Self-Destruction”, u: ista, Cinema of Flmes: Balkan Film, Culture and the Media, BFI, London, 2001, 160-171.
• J. B. Allcock: “Violence in South Slav Society”, u: isti, Explaining Yugoslavia, Hurst, London, 2000, 381-410.
• K. Rot: “Pripovedanje u svakodnevici socijalizma. O strategijama savladavanja svakodnevnog života u jugoistočnoj Evropi”, u: isti, Slike u glavama, XX vek, Beograd, 2000, 63-84.
• K. Verdery: “What Was Socialism, and Why Did it Fall?”, u: ista, What Was Socialism, and What Comes Next?, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1996, 19-38.
• R. Ivanova: “Put ka demokratiji: prostorne dimenzije masovnih političkih protesta”, u: ista, Zbogom dinosaurusi, dobrodošli krokodili, XX vek, Beograd, 2000, 17-37.
• K. Rot: “Praznici i rituali u socijalističkoj Bugarskoj”, u: isti, Slike u glavama, XX vek, Beograd, 2000, 85-112.
• K. Đordano: “Prošlost u sadašnjosti. Politika vremena u evropskim društvima” i “Mobilisana istorija u mediteranskim društvima”, u: isti, Ogledi o interkulturnoj komunikaciji, XX vek, Beograd, 2001, 69-97, 99-121.
• P. Connerton: “Commemorative ceremonies”, u: isti, How Societies Remember, Cambridge University Press, 1989, 41-71, (odnosno odgovarajuće poglavlje u srpskom prevodu knjige).
• S. Naumović: The Social Origins and Political Uses of Popular Narratives on Serbian Disunity, Filozofija i društvo XXVI, 2005, 65-104.
• M. Živković: Serbian Stories of Identity and Destiny in the 1980s and 1990s, Ph. D. Dissertation, Dept. of Anthropology, Chicago University, 2001 (poglavlje po izboru).
• N. Ries: “The World of Russian Talk in the Time of Perestroika”, u: ista, Russian Talk. Culture and Conversation during Perestroika, Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London, 1997, 15-41.
• J. Elster, C. Offe, U.K. Preuss, et.al., “Introduction: agenda, agency, and the aims of Central East European transitions”, u: isti, Institutional Design in Post-communist Societies. Rebuilding the Ship at Sea, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998, 1-35.
• I. Berend: “Ekonomski pad – politički izazov – rastući nacionalizam”, Centralna i istočna Evropa 1944-1993. Iz periferije zaobilaznim putem nazad u periferiju, CID, Podgorica, 2001, 391-432.
• M. Prošić-Dvornić: “Enough – Student Protest ’92: The Youth of Belgrade in Quest of ‘Another Serbia’”, The Anthropology of East-Europe Review, Special Issue: War Among the Yugoslavs (eds. J.M. Halpern and D.A. Kideckel), vol. 11, no. 1-2, 1993, 127-137.
• M. Prošić-Dvornić: “The Topsy Turvy Days Were There Again. Student and Civil Protest in Belgrade and Serbia, 1996/1997”, The Anthropology of East Europe Review, Volume 16, Number 1, spring 1998, pp. 77-98.
• L. Desfor Edles: “The spirit of consensus: the core representations of the Spanish transition”, u: ista, Symbol and Ritual in the New Spain. The Transition to Democracy after Franco, Cambridge University Press, 1998, 41-62.
• V. Tismaneanu: “Introduction. After Marx: the Return of Political Myth” i “Vindicative and Messianic Mythologies: Post-Communist Nationalism and Populism”, u: isti, Fantasies of Salvation, Princeton University Press, Princeton N.J., 1998, 3-22, 65-87.
• M. R. Beissinger: “From the impossible to the inevitable”, “Conclusion: nationhood and event”, Nationalist Mobilization and the Collapse of the Soviet State, Cambridge University Press, 2002, 1-47, 443-459.
• K. Verdery: “Introduction: Corpses on the Move”, “One: Dead Bodies Animate the Study of Politics”, u: ista, The Political Lives of Dead Bodies. Reburial and Postsocialist Change, New York, 1999, 1-53.
• A. Smith: “The ‘Golden Age’ and National Renewal”, G.Hoskins and G.Schöpflin (eds.), Myths and Nationhood, Hurst, London, 36-59.
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• C. Lane: “Part I. The theory and organization of ritual”, “Conclusion: ritual in modern society – a comparative analysis”, u: ista, The Rites of Rulers. Ritual in Industrial Society – The Soviet Case, Cambridge University Press, 1981, 1-44, 252-284.
• M. Prošić-Dvornić: “Apocalyptic Thought and Serbian Identity: Mythology, Fundamentalism, Astrology, and Soothsaying as Part of Political Propaganda”, Ethnologia Balkanica, Vol. 4, 2000, 163-181.
• V. Vajdenfeld, V. Vesels, ur., Evropa od A do Š. Priručnik za evropsku integraciju, BPB, Fondacija Konrad Adenauer, Beograd, 2003.
• I. Bellier, T.M. Wilson, Eds., An Anthropology of the European Union: Building, Imagining and Experiencing the New Europe, Berg, New York, 2000.
• J. Gledhill: “Anthropology and Politics: Commitment, Responsibility and the Academy”, u: J. Vincent, ed., The Anthropology of Politics, Blackwell Publishing, 2002, 438-451.
• Đ. Pavićević: “Javnost”, u: Đ. Vukadinović, P.Krstić, ur., Kritički pojmovnik civilnog društva, Grupa 484, Beograd, 2003, 139-180.
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• S. Naumović, "Da li je Faust bio Otporaš?...", Filozofija i društvo 3, 2007, 117-145.
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