Aleksandar Bošković
Biographic Data
| ID | 3618935 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aleksandar Bošković |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aleksandar |
| FAMILY NAME | Bošković |
| SIGNATURE | BOSKOVIC A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Social Sciences and University of Belgrade, Serbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6108-6184 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Tribute to Thomas Hylland Eriksen (1962-2024)
Remembering Thomas Hylland Eriksen: A Legacy of Intellectual Curiosity Thomas Hylland Eriksen was a renowned social anthropologist and a formidable public intellectual in Norway and beyond, but above all, he was, he is and he will always remain a very dear friend
Dynamics of Identification and Conflict: Anthropological Encounters
Dealing with the dynamics of identification and conflict, this book uses theoretical orientations ranging from political ecology to rational choice theory, interpretive approaches, Marxism and multiscalar analysis. Case studies set in Africa, Europe and Central Asia are grouped in three sections devoted to pastoralism, identity and migration. What connects all of these anthropological explorations is a close focus on processes of identification a…
Culture Wars: Context, Models and Anthropologists' Accounts
The relationship between anthropologists’ ethnographic investigations and the lived social worlds in which these originate is a fundamental issue for anthropology. Where some claim that only native voices may offer authentic accounts of culture and hence that ethnographers are only ever interpreters of it, others point out that anthropologists are, themselves, implanted within specific cultural contexts which generate particular kinds of theoreti…
Autobiography in Anthropology: A Thirty Year Retrospective
The year 2022 marks the 30th anniversary of the release of Helen Callaway and Judith Okely’s edited anthology Anthropology and Autobiography . During that generational span, which roughly mirrors the life history of this journal, the book has had far-reaching influences, anchoring a legacy that few such conference collections can imagine for themselves. Indeed, the volume has become a classic reference work for scholars in all walks of the social…
Let's Sharpen Our Optic Nerves
Anthropologists at war
This guest editorial addresses issues to do with the Russian invasion of Ukraine. An initial statement by one professional association prevaricates on the cause of the war by blaming NATO expansion. Here the story is told of why statements need to be unambiguous in their condemnation of Russia, which is not to say that this makes for 'NATO anthropologists' as some have claimed on social media
Underground Šišmiš Radio
Attitudes of Serbian Biological Anthropologists Toward the Concept of Race
The status of the concept of race in modern biological anthropology is not clear. While in some countries (e.g. in the USA, Australia and most of Western Europe) the majority of biological anthropologists favour the nonracial approach to the study of human variation, in others (e.g., China and most of Eastern Europe), racial approach, both populational and typological, is still utilized. In addition to the fact that human variation is a complex s…
Anthropology and Nationalism
Constructing a Scientific Explanation in Anthropology on the Principles of Methodological Individualism
The paper deals with methodological individualism in sociocultural anthropology. Key theories and debates within the framework of methodological individualism in anthropology are presented in the paper. The authors discuss criticisms aimed at the use of methodological individualism in anthropology as not suitable for anthropology, due to its specificity. Instead, they argue that methodological individualism has advantages for a better understandi…
Reading cultures: Anthropology, archaeology, and understanding ancient Mesoamerica
Taking ancient Mesoamerica as the example, the article presents a summary of the importance of multidisciplinary research. Anthropology contributed, combined with genetics, molecular biology, linguistics, archaeology and history, to particular insights that enable us to follow processes of development and change within Mesoamerican cultures. On the other hand, the author also points to some apparently irrational moments that perhaps prevented som…
Balkan Heritages: Negotiating History and Culture
European Anthropologies
Revolution, Production, Representation: "Iurii Rozhkov's Photomontages to Maiakovskii's Poem "To the Workers of Kursk
In 1924, the self-taught artist Iurii Nikolaevich Rozhkov created a series of photomontages inspired by Vladimir Maiakovskii's poem "To the Workers of Kursk" and the geological discovery of the Kursk Magnetic Anamoly (KMA). Rozhkov's series for Maiakovskii's ode to labor is both an example of the political propaganda of the reconstruction period of the NEP era and a polemical answer to all those who relentlessly attacked Maiakovskii and criticize…
Serbia’s Action against Transnational Organised Crime
This article examines the extent to which Serbia has implemented relevant international standards on action against transnational organised crime contained in the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organised Crime 2000. The first part explores key obligations with particular reference to prohibition of substantive offences, intelligence-led law enforcement (special investigative techniques), confiscation of criminal proceeds, as well…
Serious games: Theory in anthropology since the 1980s
The paper presents a critical overview of recent theories in anthropology, particularly following Ortner’s groundbreaking 1984 summary, as well as debates opened up by the Writing Culture symposium and the book that followed (Clifford and Marcus 1986). Beginning with Ortner’s theory of practice, the author presents basic elements of several theoretical currents that influenced anthropology’s development in the last few decades, with particular em…
Pisati istoriju ili istorija antropologije kao antropološki problem
The paper deals with some methodological and practical problems involved in writing and publishing histories of anthropology. A particular emphasis is on the situation with published books dealing with the subject in the former Yugoslavia, especially in Croatia, Serbia and Slovenia. The author then briefly reviews the usefulness of specific anthropological books for the teaching of history of anthropology. A recent revised edition of Eriksen and …
Westermarck (Occasional Paper No. 44 of the Royal Anthropological Institute) by Shankland, David: Reviews
Making: Anthropology, archeology, art and architecture by Ingold, Tim
The Anthropological Field on the Margins of Europe, 1945-1991
The social lives of the peoples of the Balkans have long stimulated the imagination of their northern European neighbours, including anthropologists. Yet these peoples and places have anthropological traditions of their own, shaped initially by nationalist movements and later (more superficially) by socialism and other political constraints. This volume explores the anthropological field between Greece and Slovenia when political pressures were s…
Anthropologists as symbols: Geertz
Clifford Geertz (1926-2006) was certainly one of the most influential anthropologists in the last decades of the 20th century, even though some of his former students (like Rabinow in Slyomovics 2010) claim that he was not very accessible as a person, and that sometimes he did not even care for his students. Somewhat paradoxically, Geertz ́s influence on anthropology and related disciplines remained notable even after his death. This paper analyz…
Foias, Antonia E: Ancient Maya Political Dynamics
Anthropos , Seite 278 - 279
Are we there yet?’ Citizens of Serbia and public policy on gender equality within the EU accession context
This article explores three dimensions of the current state of gender equality in Serbia: public policy on gender equality, public opinion on gender equality and the context of Serbia’s accession to the EU. Using data from the recent (2010) public opinion survey of citizens’ attitudes towards gender equality, the authors address the following issues: (1) harmonization of public policy on gender equality in Serbia with EU policies; (2) differences…
Yugonostalgia and Yugoslav Cultural Memory: Lexicon of Yu Mythology
Aleksandar Bošković argues that the Yugonostalgia in theLexicon of Yu Mythologyshould be taken, not as a regressive idealization of the Yugoslav socialist past, but as a critical intervention in both the contemporary postsocialist politics of memory and the politics of emancipation. Bošković identifies theLexiconas an exhibition catalogue of the virtual museum of all "things Yugoslav," a self-reflective postmodern hybrid emerging from the semanti…
Understanding Ethnic Conflicts through Rational Choice: A Review Article
Yugonostalgia and Yugoslav Cultural Memory: Lexicon of Yu Mythology
Aleksandar Bošković argues that the Yugonostalgia in theLexicon of Yu Mythologyshould be taken, not as a regressive idealization of the Yugoslav socialist past, but as a critical intervention in both the contemporary postsocialist politics of memory and the politics of emancipation. Bošković identifies theLexiconas an exhibition catalogue of the virtual museum of all "things Yugoslav," a self-reflective postmodern hybrid emerging from the semanti…
Distinguishing 'self' and 'other: Anthropology and national identity in former Yugoslavia
Anthropology and Nationalism
Ratko Mladić: Relativism, myth and reality (Respond to this article at http://www.therai.org.uk/at/debate)
This editorial explores the context of the arrest and subsequent extradition to the ICTY at the Hague of Ratko Mladić, former Bosnian Serb Army Commander. As Mladić acquired an almost mythical status among the Serbs, the issue of dealing with the recent past is important, especially when relativized in relation to recent events. This offers an excellent opportunity for the anthropology of violence and reconciliation processes, as well to re‐exami…
Troubles with Identity
Anthropology began in South Africa with the work of nineteenth century missionaries like Alexandre Junod (Hammond-Tooke 1997; Thornton 1998) and as such it fits nicely into the cliche ́ of a 'colonial' science. However, even at its humble beginnings in the former British colony, anthropology was much more than that (Thornton 1983; Cocks 2001); it served as an important field where different points of opinion collided or converged, but also as an …
Balkan Ghosts Revisited. Racism - Serbian Style
Anthropos , Seite 559 - 564
Antropologia Sócio-Cultural Hoje Uma visão
Este artigo oferece uma desconstrução da idéia de crise da antropologia, ligando-a com um modo de pensar em moda na virada do milênio, mas que recebeu pouco apoio na prática. Argumenta-se que esta noção de crise só pode ser aplicada a alguns segmentos da antropologia anglo-americana, não à disciplina como um todo. O artigo também inclui uma apresentação de alguns dos mais importantes debates e questões terminológicas presentes nos séculos 19 e 20…
The "Intersubjective Turn" and the Question of Subject in Contemporary Anthropology: A Review Article
Noções relacionadas ao "self" e à subjectividade inspiram diferentes respostas e diferentes estratégias teóricas para sua compreensão. Em seu livro relativamente recente (Minima Ethnographica, 1999), Michael Jackson postula toda uma nova teoria baseada no aspecto existential e fenomenológico das relações não apenas entre indivíduos, mas também entre nações, pessoas e vários grupos. O artigo apresenta um sumário e uma análise desta teoria, compara…
Phantoms of « Africa ». Michel Leiris and the anthropology of the continent
L'A. explore quelques possibilites que l'oeuvre de Michel Leiris ouvre pour la recherche ethnographique contemporaine, centrant son analyse sur les concepts et les idees comme l'Afrique. Il s'interroge particulierement sur les significations et les valeurs que differentes personnes attribuent a ce concept (specifiquement dans le domaine de l'anthropologie et des sciences sociales et des humanites en general) en supposant que leurs valeurs et syst…
Balkan anthropology: A Response to Aleksandar Bošković at 21(2)
Antropologia Sócio-Cultural Hoje Uma visão
Este artigo oferece uma desconstrução da idéia de crise da antropologia, ligando-a com um modo de pensar em moda na virada do milênio, mas que recebeu pouco apoio na prática. Argumenta-se que esta noção de crise só pode ser aplicada a alguns segmentos da antropologia anglo-americana, não à disciplina como um todo. O artigo também inclui uma apresentação de alguns dos mais importantes debates e questões terminológicas presentes nos séculos 19 e 20…
Distinguishing 'self' and 'other: Anthropology and national identity in former Yugoslavia
Balkan Ghosts Revisited. Racism - Serbian Style
Anthropos , Seite 559 - 564
Clifford Geertz: A career
The paper presents some concepts of the recently deceased American anthropologist Clifford Geertz, putting them into the specific context of his rich and interesting career, influences that he had, as well as some reactions to his ideas. A particular attention is placed upon the concept of culture, as the key concept in the 20th century American anthropology
World Anthropologies“ and Anthropologies in the World: Three Perspectives. A Review Essay
Anthropos , Seite 230 - 234
Rihtman-Auguštin, Dunja: Ethnology, Myth, and Politics
Anthropos , Seite 642 - 643
Troubles with Identity
Anthropology began in South Africa with the work of nineteenth century missionaries like Alexandre Junod (Hammond-Tooke 1997; Thornton 1998) and as such it fits nicely into the cliche ́ of a 'colonial' science. However, even at its humble beginnings in the former British colony, anthropology was much more than that (Thornton 1983; Cocks 2001); it served as an important field where different points of opinion collided or converged, but also as an …
Other People's Anthropologies: Ethnographic Practice on the Margins
Anthropological practice has been dominated by the so-called "great" traditions (Anglo-American, French, and German). However, processes of decolonization, along with critical interrogation of these dominant narratives, have led to greater visibility of what used to be seen as peripheral scholarship. With contributions from leading anthropologists and social scientists from different countries and anthropological traditions, this volume gives voi…
Beyond relativism: Rethinking comparability in cultural anthropology - By Robert C. Hunt
Archives de l'archologie europenne', Les Nouvelles de l'Archologie 110 (2007), 3-64, published in French, as well as a number of conferences.The project website (http://www.area-archives.org)promises further publications with the same publishing house, and these are to be welcomed.These essays are part of a new history of archaeology: no longer, as one contributor emphasizes, perhaps unfairly, the hobby of retired archaeologists, but a vital agen…
Marking time: On the anthropology of the contemporary by Rabinow, Paul
Holistic anthropology: Emergence and convergence - Edited by Parkin, David & Stanley Ulijaszek
Ratko Mladić: Relativism, myth and reality (Respond to this article at http://www.therai.org.uk/at/debate)
This editorial explores the context of the arrest and subsequent extradition to the ICTY at the Hague of Ratko Mladić, former Bosnian Serb Army Commander. As Mladić acquired an almost mythical status among the Serbs, the issue of dealing with the recent past is important, especially when relativized in relation to recent events. This offers an excellent opportunity for the anthropology of violence and reconciliation processes, as well to re‐exami…
Pouvoir et religion (Pour réconcilier l'histoire et l'anthropologie) by De Heusch, Luc
Guatemalans in the aftermath of violence: The refugees' return - By Kristi Anne Stølen
Understanding Ethnic Conflicts through Rational Choice: A Review Article
Are we there yet?’ Citizens of Serbia and public policy on gender equality within the EU accession context
This article explores three dimensions of the current state of gender equality in Serbia: public policy on gender equality, public opinion on gender equality and the context of Serbia’s accession to the EU. Using data from the recent (2010) public opinion survey of citizens’ attitudes towards gender equality, the authors address the following issues: (1) harmonization of public policy on gender equality in Serbia with EU policies; (2) differences…
Yugonostalgia and Yugoslav Cultural Memory: Lexicon of Yu Mythology
Aleksandar Bošković argues that the Yugonostalgia in theLexicon of Yu Mythologyshould be taken, not as a regressive idealization of the Yugoslav socialist past, but as a critical intervention in both the contemporary postsocialist politics of memory and the politics of emancipation. Bošković identifies theLexiconas an exhibition catalogue of the virtual museum of all "things Yugoslav," a self-reflective postmodern hybrid emerging from the semanti…
Making: Anthropology, archeology, art and architecture by Ingold, Tim
The Anthropological Field on the Margins of Europe, 1945-1991
The social lives of the peoples of the Balkans have long stimulated the imagination of their northern European neighbours, including anthropologists. Yet these peoples and places have anthropological traditions of their own, shaped initially by nationalist movements and later (more superficially) by socialism and other political constraints. This volume explores the anthropological field between Greece and Slovenia when political pressures were s…
Anthropologists as symbols: Geertz
Clifford Geertz (1926-2006) was certainly one of the most influential anthropologists in the last decades of the 20th century, even though some of his former students (like Rabinow in Slyomovics 2010) claim that he was not very accessible as a person, and that sometimes he did not even care for his students. Somewhat paradoxically, Geertz ́s influence on anthropology and related disciplines remained notable even after his death. This paper analyz…
Foias, Antonia E: Ancient Maya Political Dynamics
Anthropos , Seite 278 - 279
Serious games: Theory in anthropology since the 1980s
The paper presents a critical overview of recent theories in anthropology, particularly following Ortner’s groundbreaking 1984 summary, as well as debates opened up by the Writing Culture symposium and the book that followed (Clifford and Marcus 1986). Beginning with Ortner’s theory of practice, the author presents basic elements of several theoretical currents that influenced anthropology’s development in the last few decades, with particular em…
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