Gordana Gorunović
Biographic Data
| ID | 3458148 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gordana Gorunović |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gordana |
| FAMILY NAME | Gorunović |
| SIGNATURE | GORUNOVIĆ G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Belgrade |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3280-6637 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Experience of War and Mostar in the Prose of Elvedin Nezirović
The subject of this paper is the significance of the narrativization of personal experience in the work of the Mostar-based writer Elvedin Nezirović, that is, the construction of identity, imagination, memory, and self-examination of the subject and agent within the context of “external” space and time – namely, a historical period, real events, individuals, and locations rendered from within through narrative discourse. The methodological framew…
Channels of Iranian pastoral nomads on the YouTube network
This paper is based on a qualitative analysis of the content of video narratives on YouTube channels of the so-called Iranian nomads from the Lor Bakhtiari ethnic group. The main question underlying the research is what an anthropologist as a viewer and an impartial bystander can learn from these amateur videoformats, which can be included in the genre of domestic folk films about the daily life and customs of the pastoral, partially sedentarized…
"The Black Box" by George Stocking
Three years before his death on July 13, 2013, George William Stocking, widely regarded as the discipline's "greatest historian of anthropology," wrote an autobiography and memoir entitled Glimpses into My Own Black Box: An Exercise in Self-Deconstruction(2010). The book was published as part of the famous History of Anthropology (HOA) edition, which Stocking started at The University of Wisconsin Press (1983) and edited for two decades. This pap…
Death and suicide in ethnographic field
The immediate reason for writing this article is the novel Nine Nights by the Brazilian writer Bernardo Carvalho, and the subject is the thematization of anthropological thanatography and suicidology on the example of writing about the death of the forgotten anthropologist Buell Quain among the Brazilian Indians. The story of his anthropological work and suicide, once a taboo topic in the discipline, forms an integral part of a significant, but l…
Pseudo-Marxism and Proto-Functionalism in Serbian Ethnology
This paper discusses an episode in the history of Serbian ethnology, which I take to be indicative of the conditions in domestic disciplinary production in the first decade following WWII. The debate on functionalism between the then-leading representative of «vulgar materialism» (a form of pseudo-Marxism), Špiro Kulišić, and Milenko Filipović, who advocated an innovative social and functional perspective in ethnology (as a form of proto-functio…
Mihailo Lalić and Serbian Ethnology
My starting point is the yet unexplored supposition that Lalić’s realistic writing about the reality contains also a real ethnological and anthropological reference, first of all comments on the Serbian ethnology of the first half of the 20th century, its traditional paradigm, and strategy of ethnographic writing. My second supposition is that the deeper structure of Lalić’s historical novels is “inscribed” by the genre of ethnography which, toge…
B. Wongar's Literary Work and Life from an Ethnological and Anthropological Perspective
This paper looks at the (auto)biography and literary work of an Australian writer of Serbian descent, B. Wongar/Sreten Božić, viewed from the perspective of ethnology and anthropology. His work is well known to local scholars of literary and cultural studies: for them, Wongar's complex and polysemous oeuvre has long since become a vibrant topic of interpretation and dialogue. An attempt is made here to show how and why this prolific, award-winnin…
The oral history of SFRY and virtual memories of youth work actions
The object of the paper is the contemporary way in which the phenomenon of youth work actions in SFRY is imagined and represented, and not its history or historical reconstruction in the strict sense. This is about individual and group or generational memory of the people who took part in the actions and who “spoke” publicly for the first time after decades of silence, on the Internet and in other media, about their experiences. Their memories ap…
The Return of Napoleon Chagnon
The immediate motive for the writing of this paper is the renewed interest in the controversial anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon, whose name, scientific work and authority (or the dubious value thereof) is firmly linked to the Yanomami people of South America. The image of the “paleolithic -neolithic” warrior culture of the Yanomami in the contemporary world, which was construed by the American anthropologist through his books and ethnographic fil…
Fieldwork in philosophy“
Unlike the standard view that Clifford Geertz and Pierre Bourdieu embody contrary social scientific paradigms, it is argued that they share a whole set of similarities in terms of theory, research practice, and scholarly ethics. After briefly presenting the details of their encounter in the early 1970s, the authors identify the following points of their implicit and unintended convergence: 1) blurring of interdisciplinary boundaries, 2) work in N…
Geertz versus Levi-Strauss
These are two authors, in Foucauldian terms that certainly belong to the most influential individuals in socio-cultural anthropology, as well as in the social sciences and interdisciplinary research more broadly. Claude Levi-Strauss became some kind of an “intellectual hero” during the domination of structuralism in the mid-twentieth century and during the 1960s, while Clifford Geertz was an ‘icon and ambassador’ of anthropology in the second hal…
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Geertz versus Levi-Strauss
These are two authors, in Foucauldian terms that certainly belong to the most influential individuals in socio-cultural anthropology, as well as in the social sciences and interdisciplinary research more broadly. Claude Levi-Strauss became some kind of an “intellectual hero” during the domination of structuralism in the mid-twentieth century and during the 1960s, while Clifford Geertz was an ‘icon and ambassador’ of anthropology in the second hal…
Fieldwork in philosophy“
Unlike the standard view that Clifford Geertz and Pierre Bourdieu embody contrary social scientific paradigms, it is argued that they share a whole set of similarities in terms of theory, research practice, and scholarly ethics. After briefly presenting the details of their encounter in the early 1970s, the authors identify the following points of their implicit and unintended convergence: 1) blurring of interdisciplinary boundaries, 2) work in N…
The Return of Napoleon Chagnon
The immediate motive for the writing of this paper is the renewed interest in the controversial anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon, whose name, scientific work and authority (or the dubious value thereof) is firmly linked to the Yanomami people of South America. The image of the “paleolithic -neolithic” warrior culture of the Yanomami in the contemporary world, which was construed by the American anthropologist through his books and ethnographic fil…
The oral history of SFRY and virtual memories of youth work actions
The object of the paper is the contemporary way in which the phenomenon of youth work actions in SFRY is imagined and represented, and not its history or historical reconstruction in the strict sense. This is about individual and group or generational memory of the people who took part in the actions and who “spoke” publicly for the first time after decades of silence, on the Internet and in other media, about their experiences. Their memories ap…
B. Wongar's Literary Work and Life from an Ethnological and Anthropological Perspective
This paper looks at the (auto)biography and literary work of an Australian writer of Serbian descent, B. Wongar/Sreten Božić, viewed from the perspective of ethnology and anthropology. His work is well known to local scholars of literary and cultural studies: for them, Wongar's complex and polysemous oeuvre has long since become a vibrant topic of interpretation and dialogue. An attempt is made here to show how and why this prolific, award-winnin…
Mihailo Lalić and Serbian Ethnology
My starting point is the yet unexplored supposition that Lalić’s realistic writing about the reality contains also a real ethnological and anthropological reference, first of all comments on the Serbian ethnology of the first half of the 20th century, its traditional paradigm, and strategy of ethnographic writing. My second supposition is that the deeper structure of Lalić’s historical novels is “inscribed” by the genre of ethnography which, toge…
Pseudo-Marxism and Proto-Functionalism in Serbian Ethnology
This paper discusses an episode in the history of Serbian ethnology, which I take to be indicative of the conditions in domestic disciplinary production in the first decade following WWII. The debate on functionalism between the then-leading representative of «vulgar materialism» (a form of pseudo-Marxism), Špiro Kulišić, and Milenko Filipović, who advocated an innovative social and functional perspective in ethnology (as a form of proto-functio…
Death and suicide in ethnographic field
The immediate reason for writing this article is the novel Nine Nights by the Brazilian writer Bernardo Carvalho, and the subject is the thematization of anthropological thanatography and suicidology on the example of writing about the death of the forgotten anthropologist Buell Quain among the Brazilian Indians. The story of his anthropological work and suicide, once a taboo topic in the discipline, forms an integral part of a significant, but l…
Channels of Iranian pastoral nomads on the YouTube network
This paper is based on a qualitative analysis of the content of video narratives on YouTube channels of the so-called Iranian nomads from the Lor Bakhtiari ethnic group. The main question underlying the research is what an anthropologist as a viewer and an impartial bystander can learn from these amateur videoformats, which can be included in the genre of domestic folk films about the daily life and customs of the pastoral, partially sedentarized…
"The Black Box" by George Stocking
Three years before his death on July 13, 2013, George William Stocking, widely regarded as the discipline's "greatest historian of anthropology," wrote an autobiography and memoir entitled Glimpses into My Own Black Box: An Exercise in Self-Deconstruction(2010). The book was published as part of the famous History of Anthropology (HOA) edition, which Stocking started at The University of Wisconsin Press (1983) and edited for two decades. This pap…
The Experience of War and Mostar in the Prose of Elvedin Nezirović
The subject of this paper is the significance of the narrativization of personal experience in the work of the Mostar-based writer Elvedin Nezirović, that is, the construction of identity, imagination, memory, and self-examination of the subject and agent within the context of “external” space and time – namely, a historical period, real events, individuals, and locations rendered from within through narrative discourse. The methodological framew…
Sociology (9 works) · Anthropology (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Balkans: History, Politics, Society (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Ethnography (5 works) · History (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Balkan and Eastern European Studies (4 works)