The Concept of Culture between Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment

Kulenović, Nina

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“…Kulenović analyzes the dispute about whether anthropology is a “scientific” or “historical” discipline, showing that this dispute, which has been conducted throughout disciplinary history until today (and which revived especially in the 1960s and after the 1980s), is only a reproduction/reactualization of the disputes during the 1920s in anthropology, but even earlier, i.e. at the time of the institutionalization of the social and humanistic sciences in the 19 th century (Kulenović 2021 ).…”

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Emerging subdisciplines in ethnology and anthropology of Serbia: research trends at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade

Nešković

2023

Int. j. anthropol. ethnol.

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This article presents the in-depth analysis of the disciplinary landscape of ethnology and anthropology in Serbia within the institutional contexts of humanities and social sciences. Focusing on the Department of Ethnology and Anthropology at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, it provides insights into the main subdisciplines, fields, and themes of research since 2006, a time when significant publishing activity was invigorated and the Bologna Process reforms were implemented in Serbian universities. Using a theoretical approach to knowledge production as a complex mosaic of complementary research, rather than a hierarchy of different quality works, the article tracks the dynamics of disciplinary (re)orientations in the Department over the past 16 years. This is accompanied by a methodological approach whereby the author does not assume the role of an epistemic arbiter who selects and labels representative work, but instead invites members of the studied Department to exercise the selection processes by filling out a survey that the author composed and distributed. The article is based on information collected through the survey, the Department documentation, as well as the author’s own interpretation of the published works. Related subdisciplines are grouped in larger wholes and presented in counter-alphabetical order of the names given to them. Finally, the concluding part discusses the innovative and dynamic developments of the Department’s faculty research.

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Emerging subdisciplines in ethnology and anthropology of Serbia: research trends at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade

Nešković

2023

Int. j. anthropol. ethnol.

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“…Kovačević 2006up. Kovačević , 2008Kulenović 2019). Na udaru se našlo poimanje kulture kao nadorganske, statične, shvaćene kao sistem ideja i značenja, kao apstraktni model stvoren u umovima samih antropologa koji ne korespondira ni sa čim što antropolog pronalazi u etnografskoj stvarnosti koju proučava.…”

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“…Ako "otelovljenje nije isto što i 'telo'" utoliko što se koncept "otelovljenja odnosi na obrasce ponašanja zapisane na telu ili koje ljudi prevode u telesnu formu", te tako koncept "otelovljenja ima ulogu mosta koji polazi od tela, završavajući u oblasti dejstvenosti, prakse osećanja, običaja, [itd.]" (Strathern and Stewart 2011, 389), postavlja se pitanje na kojim temeljima počiva taj most i kako je, i da li je, uvođenjem koncepta otelovljenja moguće premostiti jaz između strukture i prakse na način koji bi u eksplanatornom smislu unapredio i/ili povezao metodološki holizam i metodološki individualizam (v. Kulenović 2014;2019;up. Bošković 2017;Ignjatović 2017;Ignjatović i Bošković 2018).…”

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The Explanatory Power of the Concept of Embodiment in Anthropology

Kulenović¹

2021

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As part of the author's cumulative research on the types of explanation, the structure of explanation and the explanatory capacity of key concepts in sociocultural anthropology, this paper looks at the concept of embodiment. The relevance of reappraising the explanatory power of this concept is manifold, above all on the interpretive, conceptual and paradigmatic level. Research suggests that the concept of embodiment – although very popular, commonly used in very influential scholarly monographs and academic papers, and even proposed as the cornerstone of a "new paradigm for anthropology" – has a very limited explanatory capacity. It seems that its use in no way contributes to anthropological argumentation on the level of explanation – neither cumulatively nor in terms of recontextualisation. Namely, it turns out that by deleting the word "embodiment" from the analyzed arguments nothing would be lost, and that the anthropological explanatory apparatus developed within the anthropology of the body, the anthropology of gender and the anthropology of kinship – whose use precedes contemporary popular uses of the concept of embodiment – does not have a smaller scope in terms of explanatory power.

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The Concept of Culture between Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment

Cited by 2 publications

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Emerging subdisciplines in ethnology and anthropology of Serbia: research trends at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade

Emerging subdisciplines in ethnology and anthropology of Serbia: research trends at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade

The Explanatory Power of the Concept of Embodiment in Anthropology

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