Slobodan Naumović
Biographic Data
| ID | 220619 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Slobodan Naumović |
| GIVEN NAMES | Slobodan |
| FAMILY NAME | Naumović |
| SIGNATURE | NAUMOVIĆ S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Belgrade |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9868-6490 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Resonance” Within and Between Generations in the Era of "Social Acceleration": In Search For a “Good Life” in the TV Series Morning Changes Everything
This paper examines the generational TV series "Morning Changes Everything", which aroused significant public attention and received critical acclaim, but it also sparked certain controversies. The series follows the lives of four young people in their early thirties over a year time period, who are striving to find a meaningful way to live their lives within the bustling capital city, caught between identity dilemmas, parental expectations, and …
Who Will Turn Me Away from the Sheep?”: Present State and Development Trends of Transhumant Pastoralism in Eastern Herzegovina in the 21st Century
The paper presents the results of a field study of transhumant pastoralism which was carried out in June and July 2022 on the Zelengora, Volujak and Lebršnik mountains, on the Morine plateau, i.e. in the areas of the municipalities of Ljubinje, Nevesinje, Kalinovik and Gacko (Republic of Srpska-Bosnia and Herzegovina). The goal of the research was to determine the present state and development trends of transhumant pastoralism in the areas of eas…
The Survivor's Suite: The Life of the International Festival of Ethnological Film in Belgrade through Interesting Times
This paper is an attempt, based on many years of following the International Festival of Ethnological Film, organized by the Ethnographic Museum in Belgrade, to provide insight into the way in which it has so far fulfilled its purpose, while at the same time experiencing tumultuous, occasionally even tragic events and processes. The main question concerns the way in which “interesting times” have left their mark on and shaped the world of human e…
Introduction to the anthropology of photography in Serbia
Despite significant strides from the beginning of the 20th century, there was no systematic or institutionalized reflection on photography in Serbian ethnology and anthropology until the 1980s. Until then, photography was mainly used as an additional technical tool for field recording, documenting, and presenting field materials in museums or scientific institutions. However, since the end of the 20th, and especially at the beginning of the 21st …
On the better angels of anthropology: A few words to a friend missing and missed
I want to share a few words about a colleague and friend, missing and missed. It is from him that I learned more about anthropology’s once central and nowadays almost neglected key topic – humanity and humanism – than I did from most of my formal teachers. It now seems to me that Vintilă Mihăilescu and I started our friendship long before we actually met. For the past is a foreign country that we try to interpret with tools forged only in the pre…
An Essay on the film „Enclave“ by Goran Radovanović: What we experience and what we remember thinking about the watching of a contemporary historical cinematographic work
The essay uses elements of anthropological (Steven Caton and Marc Augé), cinematographic (David Bordwell), philosophical (Stanley Cavell and William Rothman) and historiographical approaches to studying film (Robert Rosenstone) in order to develop a suitable framework for an encompassing anthropology of one specific film – Enclave (2015, 92 mins) by Goran Radovanović. The aim is to achieve a more complete understanding of the author's actions thr…
Economic Transformation and the Utilization of Tradition: Achieving Covert Benefits through the use of Reciprocity in Rites of Passage in Serbian Villages
The paper, which is part of a larger whole, offers an attempt to interpret new forms of behavior, especially the complex interplay between different forms of gift giving and consumption in contemporary marital rites. These forms of behavior, which tend to mimic traditional patterns, but are far from them, represent the symbolic responses of peasants to the economic pressures of the outside environment. The concept of the use of tradition is offer…
Imagined Commonalities: The Invention of a Late Ottoman “Tradition” of Coexistence by Cross‐Media Project: A Balkan Tale. ChristinaKoulouri, team leader. Goethe Institute, 2012. Photograph exhibit and…
The “Balkan Tale” project includes an exhibit of photographs of Ottoman‐era buildings, texts by historians from the region, and a documentary film on the Balkan wars of 1912–13. Installations include a “soundwalk” and an experience of Ottoman perfumes. Materials are available in English, Albanian, Greek, German, Serbian, Macedonian, and Turkish. The project premises that various peoples of the region lived peacefully together before the creation …
Interview with Peter Ian Crawford
Interview with Peter Ian Crawford on the topic of Visual Anthropology. Interview held at Koper, Slovenia, September 11. 2010
Studying Peoples in the People’s Democracies II. Socialist Era Anthropology in South-East Europe: Socialist era anthropology in South-East Europe
Bulgaria and Serbia during socialism are outlined from many different points of view in this volume. Beyond local and personal trajectories the authors illuminate more general and comparative questions. Was there anything like a “socialist anthropology”, common to all three countries? Did Soviet and/or Marxist influences, in the discipline and in society in general, penetrate so deeply as to form an unavoidable common denominator of anthropologic…
Was Faust a member of ′Otpor′? On subjectivistic objectivism and objectivistic subjectivism in the interpretation of (post)modern social and political movements
The paper represents an attempt to channel polemical exchanges concerning the process of democratization in Serbia into the frames of scientific dialogue which is considered here to be a more productive genre of scientific communication than are polemics. The most important issue addressed concerns providing adequate theoretical explanations of the ?revolution of October the 5th? and of the roles that the student / popular movement ?Otpor? played…
On the heaviness of feathers, or what has culture got to do with the failure to establish an organic poultry production business in contemporary Serbia
This case study starts from the thesis that the analysis of life histories, coupled by observation of actual behaviour, can contribute to a more nuanced understanding of the ways in which over-arching categories like "socio-economic cultures" actually function in the local and national settings. It is based on in-depth interviews with a former top manager in the agro-veterinary section of a S…
"Otpor" - a postmodern Faust: New social movement, the tradition of enlightened reformism and the electoral revolution in Serbia
Otpor is discussed in the text as a complex and contradictory new type of social movement, whose members attempted to contribute to the tradition of enlightened reform of social and political life in Serbia, simultaneously in a highly pragmatic and in a creative, possibly even irresponsible manner. After the introduction, analyzed are popular and media narratives on the characteristics of the movement, dilemmas concerning the founding of the move…
The social origins and political uses of popular narratives on Serbian disunity
The text offers an examination of socio-political bases, modes of functioning, and of the consequences of political instrumentalisation of popular narratives on Serbian disunity. The first section of the paper deals with what is being expressed and what is being done socially when narratives on Serbian disunity are invoked in everyday discourses. The next section investigates what political actor sty, by publicly replicating them, or by basing th…
Opanken im Parlament: Betrachtungen über die Bedeutung bäuerlicher Symbole in der serbischen Politik
"Otpor" - a postmodern Faust: New social movement, the tradition of enlightened reformism and the electoral revolution in Serbia
Otpor is discussed in the text as a complex and contradictory new type of social movement, whose members attempted to contribute to the tradition of enlightened reform of social and political life in Serbia, simultaneously in a highly pragmatic and in a creative, possibly even irresponsible manner. After the introduction, analyzed are popular and media narratives on the characteristics of the movement, dilemmas concerning the founding of the move…
The social origins and political uses of popular narratives on Serbian disunity
The text offers an examination of socio-political bases, modes of functioning, and of the consequences of political instrumentalisation of popular narratives on Serbian disunity. The first section of the paper deals with what is being expressed and what is being done socially when narratives on Serbian disunity are invoked in everyday discourses. The next section investigates what political actor sty, by publicly replicating them, or by basing th…
Imagined Commonalities: The Invention of a Late Ottoman “Tradition” of Coexistence by Cross‐Media Project: A Balkan Tale. ChristinaKoulouri, team leader. Goethe Institute, 2012. Photograph exhibit and…
The “Balkan Tale” project includes an exhibit of photographs of Ottoman‐era buildings, texts by historians from the region, and a documentary film on the Balkan wars of 1912–13. Installations include a “soundwalk” and an experience of Ottoman perfumes. Materials are available in English, Albanian, Greek, German, Serbian, Macedonian, and Turkish. The project premises that various peoples of the region lived peacefully together before the creation …
Opanken im Parlament: Betrachtungen über die Bedeutung bäuerlicher Symbole in der serbischen Politik
The social origins and political uses of popular narratives on Serbian disunity
The text offers an examination of socio-political bases, modes of functioning, and of the consequences of political instrumentalisation of popular narratives on Serbian disunity. The first section of the paper deals with what is being expressed and what is being done socially when narratives on Serbian disunity are invoked in everyday discourses. The next section investigates what political actor sty, by publicly replicating them, or by basing th…
On the heaviness of feathers, or what has culture got to do with the failure to establish an organic poultry production business in contemporary Serbia
This case study starts from the thesis that the analysis of life histories, coupled by observation of actual behaviour, can contribute to a more nuanced understanding of the ways in which over-arching categories like "socio-economic cultures" actually function in the local and national settings. It is based on in-depth interviews with a former top manager in the agro-veterinary section of a S…
"Otpor" - a postmodern Faust: New social movement, the tradition of enlightened reformism and the electoral revolution in Serbia
Otpor is discussed in the text as a complex and contradictory new type of social movement, whose members attempted to contribute to the tradition of enlightened reform of social and political life in Serbia, simultaneously in a highly pragmatic and in a creative, possibly even irresponsible manner. After the introduction, analyzed are popular and media narratives on the characteristics of the movement, dilemmas concerning the founding of the move…
Was Faust a member of ′Otpor′? On subjectivistic objectivism and objectivistic subjectivism in the interpretation of (post)modern social and political movements
The paper represents an attempt to channel polemical exchanges concerning the process of democratization in Serbia into the frames of scientific dialogue which is considered here to be a more productive genre of scientific communication than are polemics. The most important issue addressed concerns providing adequate theoretical explanations of the ?revolution of October the 5th? and of the roles that the student / popular movement ?Otpor? played…
Studying Peoples in the People’s Democracies II. Socialist Era Anthropology in South-East Europe: Socialist era anthropology in South-East Europe
Bulgaria and Serbia during socialism are outlined from many different points of view in this volume. Beyond local and personal trajectories the authors illuminate more general and comparative questions. Was there anything like a “socialist anthropology”, common to all three countries? Did Soviet and/or Marxist influences, in the discipline and in society in general, penetrate so deeply as to form an unavoidable common denominator of anthropologic…
Interview with Peter Ian Crawford
Interview with Peter Ian Crawford on the topic of Visual Anthropology. Interview held at Koper, Slovenia, September 11. 2010
Economic Transformation and the Utilization of Tradition: Achieving Covert Benefits through the use of Reciprocity in Rites of Passage in Serbian Villages
The paper, which is part of a larger whole, offers an attempt to interpret new forms of behavior, especially the complex interplay between different forms of gift giving and consumption in contemporary marital rites. These forms of behavior, which tend to mimic traditional patterns, but are far from them, represent the symbolic responses of peasants to the economic pressures of the outside environment. The concept of the use of tradition is offer…
Imagined Commonalities: The Invention of a Late Ottoman “Tradition” of Coexistence by Cross‐Media Project: A Balkan Tale. ChristinaKoulouri, team leader. Goethe Institute, 2012. Photograph exhibit and…
The “Balkan Tale” project includes an exhibit of photographs of Ottoman‐era buildings, texts by historians from the region, and a documentary film on the Balkan wars of 1912–13. Installations include a “soundwalk” and an experience of Ottoman perfumes. Materials are available in English, Albanian, Greek, German, Serbian, Macedonian, and Turkish. The project premises that various peoples of the region lived peacefully together before the creation …
An Essay on the film „Enclave“ by Goran Radovanović: What we experience and what we remember thinking about the watching of a contemporary historical cinematographic work
The essay uses elements of anthropological (Steven Caton and Marc Augé), cinematographic (David Bordwell), philosophical (Stanley Cavell and William Rothman) and historiographical approaches to studying film (Robert Rosenstone) in order to develop a suitable framework for an encompassing anthropology of one specific film – Enclave (2015, 92 mins) by Goran Radovanović. The aim is to achieve a more complete understanding of the author's actions thr…
On the better angels of anthropology: A few words to a friend missing and missed
I want to share a few words about a colleague and friend, missing and missed. It is from him that I learned more about anthropology’s once central and nowadays almost neglected key topic – humanity and humanism – than I did from most of my formal teachers. It now seems to me that Vintilă Mihăilescu and I started our friendship long before we actually met. For the past is a foreign country that we try to interpret with tools forged only in the pre…
The Survivor's Suite: The Life of the International Festival of Ethnological Film in Belgrade through Interesting Times
This paper is an attempt, based on many years of following the International Festival of Ethnological Film, organized by the Ethnographic Museum in Belgrade, to provide insight into the way in which it has so far fulfilled its purpose, while at the same time experiencing tumultuous, occasionally even tragic events and processes. The main question concerns the way in which “interesting times” have left their mark on and shaped the world of human e…
Introduction to the anthropology of photography in Serbia
Despite significant strides from the beginning of the 20th century, there was no systematic or institutionalized reflection on photography in Serbian ethnology and anthropology until the 1980s. Until then, photography was mainly used as an additional technical tool for field recording, documenting, and presenting field materials in museums or scientific institutions. However, since the end of the 20th, and especially at the beginning of the 21st …
Resonance” Within and Between Generations in the Era of "Social Acceleration": In Search For a “Good Life” in the TV Series Morning Changes Everything
This paper examines the generational TV series "Morning Changes Everything", which aroused significant public attention and received critical acclaim, but it also sparked certain controversies. The series follows the lives of four young people in their early thirties over a year time period, who are striving to find a meaningful way to live their lives within the bustling capital city, caught between identity dilemmas, parental expectations, and …
Who Will Turn Me Away from the Sheep?”: Present State and Development Trends of Transhumant Pastoralism in Eastern Herzegovina in the 21st Century
The paper presents the results of a field study of transhumant pastoralism which was carried out in June and July 2022 on the Zelengora, Volujak and Lebršnik mountains, on the Morine plateau, i.e. in the areas of the municipalities of Ljubinje, Nevesinje, Kalinovik and Gacko (Republic of Srpska-Bosnia and Herzegovina). The goal of the research was to determine the present state and development trends of transhumant pastoralism in the areas of eas…
Sociology (9 works) · Art (8 works) · Balkans: History, Politics, Society (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Political science (6 works) · Serbian (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works)