The paper problematises the new conditions in which the humanities are operating, with special emphasis on the requirements imposed upon the institutional foundation and perception of disciplinary identity by the tendency of projectification. The analysis is more narrowly focused on the change in the perception and performative aspects of ethnology in the context of "project interdisciplinarity". While in such a mosaic common field of various disciplinary claims and goals, it is primarily represented by the symbolic capital of its "famous" ethnographic method, the general ethnological insight, in final outcomes, often left deprived of the key disciplinary strongholds, together with the complex, although somewhat idealistic model of humanistic ethnography. Consequently, the trend leads to the reduction of the professional work of ethnologists to the "suppliers of material" for further analytical procedures and the later finalisation of the scientific product.
Paper examines social capacities of apocalyptic literature and presents some of its crucial concepts, motives and functions. It offers some of most important uptakes of end time narratives usage in a religious, but in a political and cultural context, also. Presenting apocalyptic literature as a compex genre, paper offers a view of multifunctional phenomenon that had been used by different social groups and agents. Paper portrays apocalypses as a part of revolutionary ideoloical texts and paralysing discourse of fear. By refering onto a structural liminality and prophetic method, it deconstructs way of manipulating with an apocalyptic imagination and socio-political acting. By representing main product of eschatology, as mileniarism and apocalypticism, paper offers understanding of revelations as a part of theology, teleology and philosophy of history and humankind.
Овај текст је резултат рада на пројекту Културно наслеђе и идентитет, бр. 177026. Етнографског института САНУ, који је у целини финансиран од стране Министарства просвете, науке и технолошког развоја РС.
The text provides a summary of the arguments that justify the anthropological
pursuit of modern cosmology, especially its receptive and popular
expression. It proposes theoretical observation of popular cosmology,
especially its cosmogonic segment, as a form of modern secularized myth that
contains the characteristics of a conventional folklore narrative. It
provides a short set of ideas that contextualize popular cosmology into a
culture war waged by certain Christian theologians and secular philosophers
at the turn of the millennium. The paper points out potentials of the
anthropological perspective of popular cosmology.
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