Anthropology of the contemporary

Pre-requisites: There are no preconditions

Course objectives: Mastering research and interpretation of the contemporary society.

Course description: Anthropology of contemporary covers examines the totality of the modern world. Due to the inability of the presentation of such a totality, it is necessary to select a small number of phenomena as experimental fields to master the analysis of the present. Such experimental fields are anthropology of the ''post-socialism'', the study of the informal economy, the analysis of urban legends, the study of sport rituals, the analysis of the urban ritual city (pedestrian zones), urban spaces and urban forms, understanding and defining economic characteristics. There is no practical training.

Learning Outcomes: The ability for contemporary analytical interpretation.

Literature/Reading:

• I.Kovačević,Antropologija tranzicije, Beograd, 2007. 11-35, 37-50, 81-107.
• B-Žikić,Ljudi (koji nisu sasvim) kao mi. Kulturna konceptualizacija pojma privatnik u Srbiji, u Vladimir Ribić (ur.), Antropologija postsocijalizma, Beograd 2007, 52-74.
• V.Vučinić,Prostorno ponašanje u Dubrovniku, Antropološka studioja grada sa ortogonalnom strukturom, Beograd, 1999.
• I.Erdei,Bogatstvo u tranziciji - konceptualizacija bogatstva na primeru dva knjaževačka preduzetnika u S.Kovač(ur.),Problemi kulturnog identiteta stanovništva savremene Srbije,Beograd,2005.205-228.
• I.Kovačević,Urbane legende - američki i/ili globalni folklor. Etnoantropol. probl., 2007, god. 2, sv. 2, str. 11-23.
• I.Erdei,"Oči zelene kao dolari" : antropologija potrošnje u Srbiji u tranziciji,Lj.Gavrilović-D.Radojičić,(ur.),Etnologija i antropologija:stanje i perspektive,ZbornikEISANU,21.Beograd,2005.173-186.
• J.Thomas, What is the Informal Economy Anyway, SAIS Review, Vol.XXI, No.1.2001.
• B.Žikić,Antropologija gesta,2. Savremeno društvo, Beograd,2002.
• B-Žikić,Gest u egzoteričnom kontestu. Glas. Etnogr. inst., 2004, knj. 52, str. 17-28.
• Ivan Đorđević (2008), Strah, otpor i identitet, u Ivan Kovačević, Bojan Žikić, Ivan Đorđević, Strah i kultura, Odeljenje za etnologiju i antropologiju Filozofskog fakulteta i Srpski genealoški centar, E
• Bojan Žikić (2006), Strah i ludilo: prolegomena za antropološko proučavanje savremene žanr-književnosti, Etnoantropološki problemi n.s. god. 1 sv. 2, 27-43
• Daniel Miller, A Theory of Shopping, Polity Press, 1998, 111-155. Deniel Miller, The Dialectics of Shopping, Chicago University Press, 2001, 1-16; 111-148.
• Robert J.Foster,Materializing the Nation,Commodities,Consumption and Media in Papua New Guinea,Indiana University Press,2002,1-24;36-62;109-130;Orvar Lögfren,Consuming nterests,in:J.Friedman(ed.)
• Sofaer, D. (ed.) 2007. Material Identities. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
• Gell, A. 1998. Art and Agency. An Anthropological Theory. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• Buchli, V. (ed.) 2002. The Material Culture Reader. Oxford: Berg.
• Jones, S. 1997. The Archaeology of Ethnicity. Constructing Identities in Past and Present. London: Routledge.
• D. Velimirović. Aleksandar Joksimović: moda i identitet. Beograd: Utopija: Odeljenje za etnologiju i antropologiju Filozofskog fakulteta, 2008.
• S. Kovač. Sretenje: novi državni praznik u javnom diskursu, Beograd: Srpski genealoški centar i Odeljenje za etnologiju i antropologiju Filozofskog fakulteta, 2011.
• G. Gorunović. Sećanje na Omladinske radne akcije kao element jugoslovenskog nasleđa:iz perspektive učesnika i aktiviste.U:I.Kovačević(ur.)Ogledi o jugoslovenskom kulturnom nasleđu. Bgd, 2012,159-192.
• Žikić, Bojan (2010), Antropologija i žanr: naučna fantastika – komunikacija identiteta, Etnoantropološki problemi n.s. god. 5, sv. 1, 17-34
• Žikić, Bojan (2010), We are Me, and They are Hive. Individual and Collective Identity as a Relational Characteristic of Humans and Aliens in Science Fiction, Antropologija Vol. 10, No. 1, 111-122
• James R. Lewis (2000), UFOs and Popular Culture: an Encyclopedia of Contemporary Myth , ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara.
• John A. Saliba (1995), Religious Dimensions of UFO Phenomena, in: James R. Lewis (ed), The Gods Have Landed, State University of New York Press, Albany, 15-65.
• Thomas E. Bullard (1989), UFO Abduction Reports: The Supernatural Kidnap Narrative Returns in Technological Guise, The Journal of American Folklore, Vol.102., No. 404, 147-170.
• J. Gordon Melton (1995), A Contactees: a Survey, in: James R. Lewis (ed), The Gods Have Landed, State University of New York Press, Albany,1-14.
• SINANI, Danijel. Tehnologija. Teozofija. Teologija: religijski karakter NLO pokreta. Etnoantropol. probl., 2010, god. 5, sv. 3, str. [117]-131.
• SINANI, Danijel. Flying but unidentified! A brief introduction to UFO phenomena. Antropologija, 2010, knj. 10, sv. 1, str. [9]-26.
• Aleksandar Bošković, Antropološke perpektive. Institut društvenih nauka, Beograd, 2014.