About the department

The teaching of ethnology in Serbia began at the Belgrade High School in 1881, and in 1906 the Ethnological Seminary was founded at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade, with the first lecturers being academicians Tihomir Đorđević and Jovan Erdeljanović. In 1990, the department changed its name to the Department of Ethnology and Anthropology, marking significant theoretical and methodological changes that transformed the discipline from a traditionally oriented study of exclusively national culture into a contemporary socio-cultural analysis of social reality and cultural diversity at the national, regional and global levels.

Due to the specific interdisciplinary openness and intra-disciplinary connections of anthropology, teachers, associates and researchers work on topics such as culture and life of modern man, popular culture (film, television, popular music, literature), cultural identities, migrations. contemporaneity, modernity, urbanity, political and cultural transition, tangible and intangible cultural heritage, globalization, new religious movements, etc.

The department has 33 employees and enrolls 55 students each year in the first year of undergraduate studies, 25 in master's studies and 10 in doctoral studies. Teachers and associates of the Department are members of domestic and international scientific and professional associations (EADS, SIEF, EASA, IUAES, InASEA).

The Department also includes the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, as well as eight research centers: the Center for Research on Popular Culture and Folklore, the Center for Anthropology of Science and Education, the Center for Research on Alternative Religions, the Center for Research on Violence and Crime, the Center for African Studies, the Center for Visual Anthropology, the Center for Anthropology of Public and Practical Policies, and the Center for Ethnological and Anthropological Studies of Asia. The Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology publishes the journal Anthropology.

In addition to the library, the Department also has several collections (a collection of African ritual masks, a collection of masks from South America, a collection of material objects from traditional Serbian culture, a collection of photographs, etc.)

Since 1987, the Department has been publishing the journal Ethnoanthropological Problems (www.eap-iea.org and www.anthroserbia.org) and is a co-publisher of the EAP-monograph edition and the Ethnological Library (www.etnoloskabiblioteka.co.rs).

Through cooperation with numerous scientific and cultural institutions in the country and abroad, the Department designs and implements projects, conducts student exchanges and study stays, organizes conferences, publishes collections of papers, etc.

The Head of the Department is Prof. Dr. Saša Nedeljković, and the coordinator is Ana Dajić.