Staša Babić
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4617551 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Staša Babić |
| NOMBRES | Staša |
| APELLIDO | Babić |
| FIRMA | BABIČ S |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Belgrade |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3196-4406 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2002 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Iron Marshalltowns of the Balkans — Ethnography of an Archaeological Community
Archaeology is an investigation into human affairs as reflected in artifacts, and archaeologists participate in the formation of the notions of the past, our origins and identities, founding their inferences upon the vestiges of material culture. On the other hand, archaeologists in their practice inevitably use specific artifacts, in this manner forming their own set of materialculture, itself also a possible subject to investigation by archaeol…
Not to Forget Kropotkin!” Once More on Interdisciplinary Exchanges
Archaeology has always been a field of investigation equally concerned with both natural and social phenomena. This position poses specific epistemic problems, that have been the subject of fierce debates. On the other hand, over the last decades the social relevance of archaeology has been questioned. Here the solution is advocated of archaeology as an integrated research program, equally devoted to both natural and cultural phenomena, with the …
Plus ça change? Balkan Archaeology in Search of Identity
Over the last decades, there have been numerous attempts to remedy the perceived delay in the development of archaeology in the Balkans, in the form of conferences, workshops or edited volumes. The frequency seems to testify that the progress is yet to be achieved. Two assumptions are common for these efforts: the archaeological record from the region is rich and highly relevant from the wider European and/or Mediterranean perspective; yet, the d…
Glasinac – Notes on Archaeological Terminology
The contribution seeks to explore possible convergences in archaeological research, regardless of the theoretical/methodological approach, based on the case of the considerations of the Iron Age societies of the late prehistory in the Central Balkans. The typological-chronological analysis of decorated whetstones from the region of Glasinac, recently published by Blagoje Govedarica, points to the conclusion of diversification of social roles and …
Archaeology as Knowledge of Alternative Solutions
From the early modern age, democracy has been regarded as one of the key social values, (meant to) secure equal representation of all the members of a community in political decision-making. The roots of this mode of social organization are explicitly linked to the ancient role-model, embodied in the Athenian constitution of the 5th century. The initial knowledge upon which the modern notions of ancient democracy are founded is derived almost exc…
The Status of Archaeological Knowledge in the Study of Status
Narratives of the past inform all major decisions and solutions in the present social domain, but perceptions of history are often interpreted and represented from the perspective of those with the most social power and status. In order to understand status, consumption, or any other lived experiences in the past, academic research should therefore be wary of written sources. This chapter demonstrates the value of archaeology in evaluating deeply…
Archaeological Stratigraphy, Flat Ontology and Thin Description. A Note on (Inter)Disciplinary Dialogue
Over the last decades, some archaeologists have adopted the approaches from philosophy and anthropology that may loosely be denoted by the term new materialism. The key assumptions are that archaeological investigation, regardless of the theoretical stance applied, has always been burdened by the modern mode of thinking and dichotomies such as nature/culture or subject/object, wherefrom stems the anthropocentric approach to the study of objects, …
Mummy – Body, Antiquity, or Medicine
In the Renaissance Europe, along with the keen admiration for Egyptian antiquities, a custom has been recorded of production and consumption of a powder healing a number of ailments, produced by grating mummies. The practice extended into the 20th century. The belief in the remedial effects of this substance is derived from the Classical and Arabic written sources, and may have been augmented by the ideas about the mystical wisdom of the ancient …
What is ‘European Archaeology’? What Should it be
European archaeology’ is an ambiguous and contested rubric. Rooted in the political histories of European archaeology, it potentially unites an academic field and provides a basis for international collaboration and inclusion, but also creates essentialized identities and exclusionary discourses. This discussion article presents a range of views on what European archaeology is, where it comes from, and what it could be
Atenica
Symbolic and cult practices of a community undoubtedly play an important role in the formation of funerary contexts. On the other hand, in the absence of written records on these practices, archaeologists are inclined to base their interpretations upon generalized and simplified ideas on “primitive cults”, such as “solar cult”. In this line of inference, technical aspects of the record are neglected in order to obtain the preconceived symbolic “m…
False Analogy
As an academic discipline, archaeology is deeply rooted in the cultural, social, and political practices of Western Europe of the nineteenth century. The emergence of local scholarly communities in other parts of the continent tends to be described as a process that saw the even spread of ideas and concepts in their original form. This further implies a uniform, unilinear sequence of paradigms (culture-historical, processual, postprocessual), eac…
Archaeology, Theory in
The Balkans as a Temporal Denominator – The Discourse of Balkanism in Serbian Archaeology
The idea of universal linear course of time is an important element of the basic framework of reference of the archaeological research into the past. However, even the fundamental theoretical premises of the discipline, such as the conceptualization of time, may be changed and differently interpreted, depending upon the social and cultural context of research. The history of archaeology in Serbia testifies that, contrary to the generally implicit…
The Craft of Archaeology and Dialogue with the Public
Over the last decades, especially among the postprocessualy oriented archaeologists, the link between the research into the past and various relations of domination in the modern world has been explicitly articulated, as well as the ways in which the discipline engages in the dialogue with its social context, widely encompassed by the notion of the public. On the other hand, the eminent representatives of other theoretical approaches in archaeolo…
What Kind of Archaeology do We Need
From the time of the constitution of archaeology as an academic discipline to the present, two radical changes have taken place of theoretical postulates, aims, methods, relationships with other disciplines. However, potentially far-reaching consequences of these fundamental changes have not had the same impact in all the academic communities. The critical assessment of the epistemological foundations of archaeology in Serbia indicates that our p…
Why History of Archaeology Matters
Over the last decades, in the framework of the wider critical reassessments of archaeological theory and practice, especially in the English-speaking literature, a number of writings have been published, pointing to the origins and theoretical background in which some of the basic concepts of the discipline were developed. The very essence of archaeology has thus been situated into the cultural, political and ideological context of Western Europe…
Past as the Other – The Other as Past
Modern academic disciplines of anthropology, history and archaeology are founded in the cultural, social, political context of the 18th and 19th centuries, at the times of the colonial expansion of the West European countries. Although demarcated by the objects of their study („primitive societies“, the past according to written sources, or material evidence), all these disciplines are grounded in the need to distinguish and strengthen the modern…
Archaeology and Ethnicity
The paper examines the history of archaeological investigation into collective identities in the past. Culture-historical approachis fully based upon the concept of cultural group , deeply influenced by the modern understanding of nation-states – unity of territory, material culture, language and ethnic affiliation. The application of this concept led to devastating political abuses of archaeology, most notoriously in the case of Gustaf Kossinna …
The Language of Archaeology II
The paper is an auto-reflexive critical reconsideration of the author’s own previous writings on theory in archaeology. The imperfections of the early papers are scrutinized in connection to the prevailing attitude in the local disciplinary community at the time. Archaeology in Serbia has been withdrawn from the main theoretical discussions, and the individual attempts were aimed at compensating for this setback, introducing the essence of the cu…
The Archaeology of Identity
Archaeology of Identity' presents an overview of the five key areas which have recently emerged in archaeological social theory: gender, age, ethnicity, religion, and status. This book reviews the research history of each area, the different ways in which each has been investigated, and offers new avenues for exploring their connections
Princely Graves' of the Central Balkans -- a Critical History of Research
This article critically explores the century-long history of research into a particular set of archaeological finds. The `princely graves' — funerary assemblages dated to the early Iron Age (seventh to fifth centuries BC) containing, among other things, luxurious objects produced in Archaic Greek workshops — are known from various parts of temperate Europe, and were first recorded in the central Balkans region by the end of the nineteenth century…
Princely graves’ of the central Balkans – A critical history of research
This article critically explores the century-long history of research into a particular set of archaeological finds. The ‘princely graves’ – funerary assemblages dated to the early Iron Age (seventh to fifth centuries BC) containing, among other things, luxurious objects produced in Archaic Greek workshops – are known from various parts of temperate Europe, and were first recorded in the central Balkans region by the end of the nineteenth century…
The archaeology of identity
Bringing together a wealth of scholarship which provides a unique integrated approach to identity, The Archaeology of Identity presents an overview of the five key areas which have recently emerged in archaeological social theory: \n \n* gender \n* age \n* ethnicity \n* religion \n* status. \n \nThis excellent book reviews the research history of each areas, the different ways in which each has been investigated, and offers new avenues for resear…
What is ‘European Archaeology’? What Should it be
European archaeology’ is an ambiguous and contested rubric. Rooted in the political histories of European archaeology, it potentially unites an academic field and provides a basis for international collaboration and inclusion, but also creates essentialized identities and exclusionary discourses. This discussion article presents a range of views on what European archaeology is, where it comes from, and what it could be
Princely graves’ of the central Balkans – A critical history of research
This article critically explores the century-long history of research into a particular set of archaeological finds. The ‘princely graves’ – funerary assemblages dated to the early Iron Age (seventh to fifth centuries BC) containing, among other things, luxurious objects produced in Archaic Greek workshops – are known from various parts of temperate Europe, and were first recorded in the central Balkans region by the end of the nineteenth century…
Princely Graves' of the Central Balkans -- a Critical History of Research
This article critically explores the century-long history of research into a particular set of archaeological finds. The `princely graves' — funerary assemblages dated to the early Iron Age (seventh to fifth centuries BC) containing, among other things, luxurious objects produced in Archaic Greek workshops — are known from various parts of temperate Europe, and were first recorded in the central Balkans region by the end of the nineteenth century…
False Analogy
As an academic discipline, archaeology is deeply rooted in the cultural, social, and political practices of Western Europe of the nineteenth century. The emergence of local scholarly communities in other parts of the continent tends to be described as a process that saw the even spread of ideas and concepts in their original form. This further implies a uniform, unilinear sequence of paradigms (culture-historical, processual, postprocessual), eac…
Princely Graves' of the Central Balkans -- a Critical History of Research
This article critically explores the century-long history of research into a particular set of archaeological finds. The `princely graves' — funerary assemblages dated to the early Iron Age (seventh to fifth centuries BC) containing, among other things, luxurious objects produced in Archaic Greek workshops — are known from various parts of temperate Europe, and were first recorded in the central Balkans region by the end of the nineteenth century…
Princely graves’ of the central Balkans – A critical history of research
This article critically explores the century-long history of research into a particular set of archaeological finds. The ‘princely graves’ – funerary assemblages dated to the early Iron Age (seventh to fifth centuries BC) containing, among other things, luxurious objects produced in Archaic Greek workshops – are known from various parts of temperate Europe, and were first recorded in the central Balkans region by the end of the nineteenth century…
The Archaeology of Identity
Archaeology of Identity' presents an overview of the five key areas which have recently emerged in archaeological social theory: gender, age, ethnicity, religion, and status. This book reviews the research history of each area, the different ways in which each has been investigated, and offers new avenues for exploring their connections
The Language of Archaeology II
The paper is an auto-reflexive critical reconsideration of the author’s own previous writings on theory in archaeology. The imperfections of the early papers are scrutinized in connection to the prevailing attitude in the local disciplinary community at the time. Archaeology in Serbia has been withdrawn from the main theoretical discussions, and the individual attempts were aimed at compensating for this setback, introducing the essence of the cu…
Past as the Other – The Other as Past
Modern academic disciplines of anthropology, history and archaeology are founded in the cultural, social, political context of the 18th and 19th centuries, at the times of the colonial expansion of the West European countries. Although demarcated by the objects of their study („primitive societies“, the past according to written sources, or material evidence), all these disciplines are grounded in the need to distinguish and strengthen the modern…
Archaeology and Ethnicity
The paper examines the history of archaeological investigation into collective identities in the past. Culture-historical approachis fully based upon the concept of cultural group , deeply influenced by the modern understanding of nation-states – unity of territory, material culture, language and ethnic affiliation. The application of this concept led to devastating political abuses of archaeology, most notoriously in the case of Gustaf Kossinna …
Why History of Archaeology Matters
Over the last decades, in the framework of the wider critical reassessments of archaeological theory and practice, especially in the English-speaking literature, a number of writings have been published, pointing to the origins and theoretical background in which some of the basic concepts of the discipline were developed. The very essence of archaeology has thus been situated into the cultural, political and ideological context of Western Europe…
What Kind of Archaeology do We Need
From the time of the constitution of archaeology as an academic discipline to the present, two radical changes have taken place of theoretical postulates, aims, methods, relationships with other disciplines. However, potentially far-reaching consequences of these fundamental changes have not had the same impact in all the academic communities. The critical assessment of the epistemological foundations of archaeology in Serbia indicates that our p…
The Craft of Archaeology and Dialogue with the Public
Over the last decades, especially among the postprocessualy oriented archaeologists, the link between the research into the past and various relations of domination in the modern world has been explicitly articulated, as well as the ways in which the discipline engages in the dialogue with its social context, widely encompassed by the notion of the public. On the other hand, the eminent representatives of other theoretical approaches in archaeolo…
Archaeology, Theory in
The Balkans as a Temporal Denominator – The Discourse of Balkanism in Serbian Archaeology
The idea of universal linear course of time is an important element of the basic framework of reference of the archaeological research into the past. However, even the fundamental theoretical premises of the discipline, such as the conceptualization of time, may be changed and differently interpreted, depending upon the social and cultural context of research. The history of archaeology in Serbia testifies that, contrary to the generally implicit…
Atenica
Symbolic and cult practices of a community undoubtedly play an important role in the formation of funerary contexts. On the other hand, in the absence of written records on these practices, archaeologists are inclined to base their interpretations upon generalized and simplified ideas on “primitive cults”, such as “solar cult”. In this line of inference, technical aspects of the record are neglected in order to obtain the preconceived symbolic “m…
False Analogy
As an academic discipline, archaeology is deeply rooted in the cultural, social, and political practices of Western Europe of the nineteenth century. The emergence of local scholarly communities in other parts of the continent tends to be described as a process that saw the even spread of ideas and concepts in their original form. This further implies a uniform, unilinear sequence of paradigms (culture-historical, processual, postprocessual), eac…
Mummy – Body, Antiquity, or Medicine
In the Renaissance Europe, along with the keen admiration for Egyptian antiquities, a custom has been recorded of production and consumption of a powder healing a number of ailments, produced by grating mummies. The practice extended into the 20th century. The belief in the remedial effects of this substance is derived from the Classical and Arabic written sources, and may have been augmented by the ideas about the mystical wisdom of the ancient …
What is ‘European Archaeology’? What Should it be
European archaeology’ is an ambiguous and contested rubric. Rooted in the political histories of European archaeology, it potentially unites an academic field and provides a basis for international collaboration and inclusion, but also creates essentialized identities and exclusionary discourses. This discussion article presents a range of views on what European archaeology is, where it comes from, and what it could be
Archaeological Stratigraphy, Flat Ontology and Thin Description. A Note on (Inter)Disciplinary Dialogue
Over the last decades, some archaeologists have adopted the approaches from philosophy and anthropology that may loosely be denoted by the term new materialism. The key assumptions are that archaeological investigation, regardless of the theoretical stance applied, has always been burdened by the modern mode of thinking and dichotomies such as nature/culture or subject/object, wherefrom stems the anthropocentric approach to the study of objects, …
The Status of Archaeological Knowledge in the Study of Status
Narratives of the past inform all major decisions and solutions in the present social domain, but perceptions of history are often interpreted and represented from the perspective of those with the most social power and status. In order to understand status, consumption, or any other lived experiences in the past, academic research should therefore be wary of written sources. This chapter demonstrates the value of archaeology in evaluating deeply…
Glasinac – Notes on Archaeological Terminology
The contribution seeks to explore possible convergences in archaeological research, regardless of the theoretical/methodological approach, based on the case of the considerations of the Iron Age societies of the late prehistory in the Central Balkans. The typological-chronological analysis of decorated whetstones from the region of Glasinac, recently published by Blagoje Govedarica, points to the conclusion of diversification of social roles and …
Archaeology as Knowledge of Alternative Solutions
From the early modern age, democracy has been regarded as one of the key social values, (meant to) secure equal representation of all the members of a community in political decision-making. The roots of this mode of social organization are explicitly linked to the ancient role-model, embodied in the Athenian constitution of the 5th century. The initial knowledge upon which the modern notions of ancient democracy are founded is derived almost exc…
The archaeology of identity
Bringing together a wealth of scholarship which provides a unique integrated approach to identity, The Archaeology of Identity presents an overview of the five key areas which have recently emerged in archaeological social theory: \n \n* gender \n* age \n* ethnicity \n* religion \n* status. \n \nThis excellent book reviews the research history of each areas, the different ways in which each has been investigated, and offers new avenues for resear…
Plus ça change? Balkan Archaeology in Search of Identity
Over the last decades, there have been numerous attempts to remedy the perceived delay in the development of archaeology in the Balkans, in the form of conferences, workshops or edited volumes. The frequency seems to testify that the progress is yet to be achieved. Two assumptions are common for these efforts: the archaeological record from the region is rich and highly relevant from the wider European and/or Mediterranean perspective; yet, the d…
Iron Marshalltowns of the Balkans — Ethnography of an Archaeological Community
Archaeology is an investigation into human affairs as reflected in artifacts, and archaeologists participate in the formation of the notions of the past, our origins and identities, founding their inferences upon the vestiges of material culture. On the other hand, archaeologists in their practice inevitably use specific artifacts, in this manner forming their own set of materialculture, itself also a possible subject to investigation by archaeol…
Not to Forget Kropotkin!” Once More on Interdisciplinary Exchanges
Archaeology has always been a field of investigation equally concerned with both natural and social phenomena. This position poses specific epistemic problems, that have been the subject of fierce debates. On the other hand, over the last decades the social relevance of archaeology has been questioned. Here the solution is advocated of archaeology as an integrated research program, equally devoted to both natural and cultural phenomena, with the …
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