History of Serbian ethnology

Pre-requisites: There are no preconditions.

Course objectives: The objective is contained in the title and its intention is to introduce first year students to the history of discipline by studying in Serbia.

Course description: The Enlightenment and the ideas forming the basis of anthropology. The philosophy of Dositej Obradovic. Geographical literature of the first half of the 19th century. Sentimental literature. Romanticism, Ethnography and Ethno-psychology. Romantic period in Serbia as an initiator for the emergence of ethnology. Vuk Karadzic and origins of ethnography. Counterfeiters of ethnographic materials and the first ethnographic synthesis. The commencement of studies in ethnology. The constitution of ethnology as a discipline between the two world wars. Ethnology in Serbia after the Second World War. Serbian ethnology and postmodernism. Transition rites as a specific method for elucidating transformation events and consequences of modernization. Fundamentals of the theory of Van Gennep’s transition rites. Rites de passage and their emergence in Serbian ethnology. Reception of Van Gennep through Leach’s structural adoptions of the method. Suggestions for the topic of term papers on rites of transition and discussions about the proposals.

Learning Outcomes: Critical history of events presented makes use of the results to which the discipline has arrived in the past. Studying the recent history of the discipline is the starting point of the overall study for it introduces students to recent developments and the state of science itself.

Literature/Reading:

• G. Gorunović, Srpska etnologija i marksizam, Beograd, 2007. 95-98 i 113-122.
• I.Kovačević, Tradicija modernog, Beograd, 2006. 19-43. 47-61. 75-90. 97-132.
• I.Kovačević, Srpska antropologija u prvoj deceniji dvadeset prvog veka, Glasnik Etnografskog muzeja, 72. Beograd, 2008. 25-40.
• I. Kovačević, Istorija srpske etnologije 2. Pravci i odlomci, Beograd. 2001. 7-26.
• I.Kovačević, Istorija srpske etnologije 1 Prosvetiteljstvo, Beograd, 2001. 57-93, 97-104,123-171, 225-244, 247-252.
• I.Kovačević, Modernizam i strukturalizam, u D.Antonijević (Ur.) Zbornik sa naučnog skupa posvećenog stogodišnjici rođenja Klod Levi Strosa
• S.Naumović, Nacionalizacija nacionalne nauke, u S.Kovač (ur.), Problemi kulturnog identiteta stanovništva savremene Srbije, Beograd, 2005. 26-46.
• N. Pavković-D. Bandić-I. Kovačević, Težnje i pravci razvoja etnologije u SR Srbiji (1945-1983), Zbornik 1. kongresa jugoslovanskih etnologov in folkloristov, Rogaška Slatina-Ljubljana, 1983. 107-122.
• Lj. Trgovčević, Naučnici Srbije i stvaranje jugoslovenske države 1914 – 1920., Beograd, 1986. 293-304.
• A.Van Genep, Obredi prelaza, Beograd, 2005.15-16.
• M.Vodopija, Maturiranje kao rite de passage, Narodna umjetnost, 13. Zagreb, 1976. 77-82.
• I. Kovačević, Semiologija mita i rituala, 2. Bgd. 2001. 12-19.
• M. Malešević, Prilog tipologiji obreda prelaza, Raskovnik, 39. Bgd. 1984. 65-72.
• E.Lič, Kultura i komunikacija, Bgd. 1983.117-120.
• M.Prošić, Teorijsko-hipotetički okvir za proučavanje poklada kao obreda prelaza, Etnološke sveske 1. Bgd. 1978. 14-24.
• I.Kovačević, Semiologija mita i rituala 1 Tradicija, Beograd, 2001. 69-85.
• I. Kovačević, Semiologija mita i rituala 2. Savremeno društvo, Beograd, 2001. 154-165.
• G. Gorunović, Pseudomarksizam i protofunkcionalizam u srpskoj etnologiji: Kulišić vs. Filipović, Etnoantropološki problemi god. 1. sv.1. Beograd. 2006. 185-204.
• Z. Pešić-Golubović, Antropološki funkcionalizma Bronislava Malinovskog, predgovor u knjizi B. Malinovski, Magija nauka religija, Beograd, 1970.7-27.
• J. Skerlić, Svetozar Marković, Beograd, 1922. 199-209.