Sociocultural Anthropology

Pre-requisites: The program will be structured around students background knowledge. Students that did not take Sociocultural Anthropology at the previous studies will have to pass a supplemental exam that deals with basic concepts.

Course objectives: Introduction to current directions in social and cultural anthropology. Independent study on particular topics in sociocultural anthropology.

Course description: Current directions in sociocultural anthropology: revision and critique of traditional anthropology, symbolic-interpretive anthropology, anthropology and semiotics, postmodernism and anthropology, anthropology as cultural critique, culture and gender studies, cognitive anthropology. Changes in concepts: starting with the concept of society to habitus and symbolic communities, from concepts of universal to particular, intercultural, primitive/modern to global/glocal, rational to mimicry, representation to interpretation, science to cultural critique and cultural politics, nature to science.

Learning Outcomes: This course will enable students to independently and thoroughly study current movements in anthropology.

Literature/Reading:

• Kelner, Daglas (2004): Medijska kultura, KLIO, Beograd Sekulić, Nada (2007): O kraju antropologije, ISI FF, Beograd
• Fabijeti, Ugo (i grupa autora) (2004): Uvod u antropologiju, KLIO, Beograd Sekulić, Nada (2007): Rut Benedikt o kulturi Japana, u Antropologija 4
• Velš, Volfgang (2000): Naša postmoderna moderna, Izdavačka knjižarnica Z.S., Novi Sad Bauman, Zygmunt (1988): Postmodern Ethics, Oxford, Cambridge, Blackwell Sekulić, Nada (nav.delo)
• Fuko, Mišel (1971): Reči i stvari, Nolit, Beograd
• Todorov, Tzvetan (1999): The Conquest of America, University of Oklahoma Press Rabinow, Paul (1984): The Foucault Reader, Pantheon Books, New York Haraway, Donna (1989): Primate Visons, Routledge
• Derida, Žak (1976): O gramatologiji, Veselin Masleša, Sarajevo
• Said, Edvard (2000): Orijentalizam, Biblioteka HH vek, Beograd Anidžar, Gil (2006): Jevrejin, Arapin, Beogradski krug i CZKD, Bgd. Todorova, Marija: Imaginarni Balkan, Bibl.HH vek, Bgd.
• Denzin, Norman, Lincoln Yvonna: Collecting and Interpreting Qualitative Data, Sage Publications Bourdieu, Pierre (2003): Colonisalism and Ethnography, u ANthropology Today, Vol.19
• Levi Stros, Klod (1978): Divlja misao, Nolit, Bgd. Sahlins, Marshall (1995): How Natives Think, Chicago Univerity Press Sekulić, Nada (nav.delo)
• Balandije, Žorž (1977): Politička antropologija, Bibl.HH vek, Bgd
• Kelner, Daglas (nav.delo)
• Bodrijar Žan, 1991: Simbolička razmena i smrt, Dečje novine, Gornji Milanovac
• Papić, Žarana, Sklevicki Lidija (2003): Antropologija žene, Bibl.HH vek, Bgd