Bojan Žikić
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1472647 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Bojan Žikić |
| PRENOMES | Bojan |
| SOBRENOME | Žikić |
| ASSINATURA | ŽIKIĆ B |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Belgrade |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3276-1061 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 54 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 4 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 54 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2004 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
The Cultural Representation of the Social Harmfulness of Inaćenje
This article examines the Serbian proverb Naljutio se pop na selo, pa odsekao sebi kurac (“The priest became angry with the village and cut off his own dick”), conventionally interpreted as describing a person who acts against their own interests to their own detriment. I argue that the meaning of the proverb is more complex than such an interpretation suggests, as it points to a cultural model of sociality, that is, to a culturally specific conc…
Misanthropy in the Literary Trilogy "Remembrance of Earth's Past"
The science fiction trilogy Remembrance of Earth’s Past by Chinese author Liu Cixin consists of the novels The Three-Body Problem, The Dark Forest, and Death’s End. The series depicts the first contact between human civilization and an extraterrestrial species, as well as the immediate consequences and ultimate outcome of this encounter. Written between 2006 and 2010, it was translated into English between 2014 and 2016, and into Serbian between …
Everyday Misanthropy
Although the general thematic framework of this text is the relationship between humans and animals, the comments and testimonies about dogs presented in this text are, in fact, comments and testimonies about humans. Dog behavior represents a framework and an occasion for dealing with human behavior by commentators and respondents. It aims to highlight the inaction of what is being commented on or what is being said, whether it is seen through th…
Wasting Time as a Cultural Practice in Contemporary Serbia
The expression "wasting time" is a colloquial label for periods of time spent waiting to receive services in various social situations in which people find themselves in state or private institutions, such as the Ministry of Internal Affairs or health institutions, banks and technical inspections of vehicles, etc. In this way, the superiority of social or cultural time over individual time is manifested. Cultural use of time represents the tenden…
The Color of Baseball
Baseball is a sport perceived locally - in the USA - as well as globally, almost in the sense of objective correlative to concepts of “America” and “American”. The most important professional competition in baseball is Major League Baseball (MLB), and it has existed for almost a century and a half. On the 15th of April in 1947, Jackie Robinson became the first African American to play in the MLB. Americans define this as an integration of basebal…
Covid-19 Vaccine Refusal in Serbia as an Example of Social Solipsism
The number of citizens in Serbia vaccinated against COVID-19 was among the highest in Europe in early 2021. It started to stagnate as it approached 50% total population coverage, while the number of cases started to rise. The paper presents the cultural thought that leads people to decline COVID-19 vaccination, and aims to show that such cultural thought can be described as social solipsism. This means that illusions about reality are used as a c…
The Vampire as a Model of Cultural Otherness in the Television Series “What We Do in the Shadows”
Vampires in popular culture differ from vampires in Serbian traditional culture not only in that they feed on human blood, but also in the implications of otherness they represent. While the Serbian vampire is an example of ontological otherness – a revenant, a non-human as opposed to a human, but not of sociocultural otherness, being a member of the same community as those against whom its misdeeds are directed – the vampire in popular culture i…
Misanthropic Aspects of Science Fiction
Anthropological interest in science fiction derives from the fact that works of science fiction, while depicting imaginary worlds, actually speak about existing human communities. This paper looks at how misanthropy is communicated in science fiction works, specifically, in Borislav Pekić's novel Atlantis (Atlantida), first published in 1988, and the TV series Battlestar Galactica, which originally aired between 2003 and 2009. The theme of both w…
A pessimist overview of the nature of human existence in the movie "Westworld"
The cultural communication attempted by this film in the context of science fiction as part of popular culture is analyzed. The message of the film pertains to the inexistence of a solution to the instability of the relationship between the normative order and human behaviour - which is the description of human social existence in the film, and is interpreted as a pessimist view of this existence. The message is arrived at through a string of bin…
Cognitive and Medical Misanthropology
This paper looks at so-called corona parties in Serbia, which can be seen as a specific paradigm of exhibiting irresponsible health behavior during an epidemic. The term refers to illegal gatherings of a large number of people in circumstances when all gatherings are restricted under anti-epidemic measures. A phenomenon similar to corona parties and co-ocurring with them in the Serbian socio-cultural and pandemic temporal context, is the dancing …
The Physiology and Mythology of the "Domestic" and the "Alien"
The vampire in Serbian traditional culture and the vampire in popular culture are two different beings. The former is virtually identical to people in his community, does not undergo a change of character after death, and getting rid of him is the task of the whole community. He is linked to his socio-cultural environment and his existence is not linked to physiological needs and possibilities, but is circumscribed by the ability of the living me…
Noises in communication
In this paper, through the application of the concept of double bind, formulated by the British anthropologist Gregory Bateson and his associates, the communicative contradiction of messages and instructions related to behavior in circumstances of epidemiological danger, announced by the government officials, doctors and the Crisis Staff during the corona virus epidemic in Serbia will be considered, as well as the consequences of such communicati…
Index “Corona”
In this paper we analyze the different ways in which COVID-19 is used as a carrier of cultural communication, whereupon it appears as a signifier of other socio-cultural phenomena and as a conveyer of messages of such communication. Accordingly, this paper will not observe health plan of COVID-19, nor the accompanying sociological phenomena of the epidemic in the strict sense of the word, but will focus instead on the cultural dimension of the in…
The New Normal and Covid-19 in Serbia from February to May 2020
The situation caused by the appearance of Covid-19 can be viewed as a critical event: typologically, it is an unprecedented event, which requires and shapes new forms of historical action hitherto unknown in the given context. Critical events serve as strong value and emotional landmarks in the cultural cognition of each social environment, and form the basis for a meaningful determination towards other events. Using material collected primarily …
Haunted Places in US Culture
What makes a place haunted is the narrative of its ghosts: the curse of the place is expressed through the hauntings of that place by the ghosts of the people who died there. Ghosts are an expression of negative transgression, that is, a violation of social norms and cultural values that leads to the moral destabilization of the community: haunted places are places of tragedy, of deaths caused by violence and negligence. The basic features of hau…
No Balm (in) Gilead
Three aspects of cultural communication of Stephen King's “The Dark Tower” book series are discussed in this paper: a literary tradition, a literary genre, and a cultural message. Narrative motives are established as a mean of connection of this book series with some of the classic works of English and European literature, and the whole series is fashioned according to the literary form of the (folk or fairy) tale. The purpose of this is to refer…
Where the Civilization Ends Horror Begins
One of the most famous enterprises within the British search for the so-called Northwest Passage in the nineteenth century, the Franklin expedition, was described in the novel "Terror" (2007) by American writer Dan Simmons, as well as in the TV series based on the book (2018) of the same name. What the expedition became known for was its disappearance in the Arctic wastelands despite – for its time – the most modern technological equipment, as we…
Stigma matters
As a social determinant of health, stigma is a major barrier to health care access, illness management and completing the treatment. It is attributed both to HIV as a health condition and to the populations at risk of being infected with it. In Serbia, HIV is associated with men who have sex with men (MSM), with a noticeable stigma towards them. Drawing upon a qualitative cross-sectional study, conducted in three Serbian cities, we explore the MS…
The Socio-Ontological Solipsism in the Work of Philip K. Dick
An important feature of the work of one of the most influential science fiction writers of the last century, Philip Kindred Dick, is the manifestation of different experiences of reality by one or more actors – creating an impression among readers that it is possible to speak of several different planes of existence within a single narratively given reference frame. Contrary to other authors who have dealt with this problem, we do not interpret t…
A Misanthropic View at the Societies of the Old Testament in the Books of Smaller Prophets
The subject of work is a value relationship that is established towards the society in the books of the prophet of Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, and Malachi. Their attitude toward the current state of social organization of the Jewish people is negative. They see the social and cultural life as morally bad, where the roots of that evil are in deviation from God's laws given to Moses, and its manifes…
Music as an Instrument of Making a Sociocultural Otherness
The notion of "music" should be viewed as a synesthetic concept: impressions about it are not transmitted exclusively through the sense of hearing, but also to the visual perception. The effect of music can be seen as intellectual and emotional, as a relation towards the played or pronounced at the lyrics, but also towards the very appearance or performance of the musicians, to the musical piece performing and so on. In other words, we do not onl…
Three-Finger Emblem. How Did the Serbs Gesture Construct the Visual Image of Their National Identity in 20th Century 90s
The gestural performance of the physical body vehicle shape which consequently became known as the Three-Finger Emblem presents a kind of the cultural invention in the Serbian culture in the last decade of the 20th Century. This paper deals with this phenomenon from the socio cultural anthropological viewpoint founded on the methodology of gesture studies: the issue of interest includes matters of ethnicity and identity, as well those of gesture …
Horror and Fascination with the Eternal Body
Imagining the possibility of an unimaginably long or eternal physical existence is considered as shaped by cultural ideas about mummies as eternal physical bodies in English literature of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Based on three short stories and one novel, the paper will show how cultural ideas about a foreign and distant culture are shaped through the reflection of ideas about one’s own culture
Recreational football in Belgrade
The construction of masculinity in 40 to 50 year old men is examined on the example of playing recreational football at the Belgrade indoor soccer fields from the second half of the first decade of this century onwards. Playing football is seen as a particular form of male body use in organizing individual leisure time and its symbolical use in establishing notions of masculinity. The theoretical concept of hegemonic masculinity is problematized …
Why Do We Need Misanthropology in Anthropology? An Exploratory Essay in Deliberating the Research Subfield
Building up on Morson’s idea of misanthropology as the study of the cussedness of human nature I limit that notion to human social and cultural life, suggesting that misanthropology should be considered as misery inflicted upon humans by humans through mediation of society and culture. It is a plea for anthropological investigations into whatever is opposed either to our cultural notion of humanitas, or to what is considered as a virtue in any gi…
Hygiene and uncertainty in qualitative accounts of hepatitis C transmission among drug injectors in Serbia
Anthropological Life in Bush of Ghosts. Anthropology, Anthropologist and Cultural Change in Transitiona Serbia
La celebración del Centenario del programa de Etnología y Antropología de la Universidad de Belgrado en el 2006 se constituyó como una oportunidad, no solamente para hablar sobre el glorioso pasado sino para aplicar la auto-reflexión en nuestra disciplina. La revisión de los cambios sufridos por la disciplina en una Serbia de cambiantes circunstancias sociales y culturales durante más de un siglo lleva a interrogarnos cómo las vidas de los antrop…
Gesture in an exoteric context
Anthropological approach to gesture studies is based on the cultural communication as well on defining the context of occurrence within the general cultural context, where latter provides the frame of reference for the communication issued. The particular gesture is reviewed according to the relation of the morphology of physical movement to the semantic contents achieved and transmitted within the contexts of relevance. The gestures discussed ar…
Ethno-cultural duality and, ethnic, stereotypes
A construction of an individual identity, in dual ethno-cultural environments, is often based on a premise that an ethnic identity is a primary human determinant. In such dual ethno-cultural communities, a basic ethnic stereotype could be called „relational“: it is founded on the concept of „Others/We-group“ distinction, where the Others appear as a main reason for the existence of the We-group members who use the distinction. This stereotype is …
Anthropology of Aids. Risk environment and injecting routine – the case of Belgrade injecting drug users
Risk environment is usually seen as physical and social one; first concerns physical space of injecting, while second deals with people who inject and their relations. Injecting routine is designation for set of IDUs habitual life. Management of risk related to HIV/HCV is reviewed and discussed after the results of qualitative anthropological research conducted among the Belgrade IDUs , due to establishing, performing and disrupting injecting rou…
Fear and Madness
This paper represents a continuation of my previous analysis of the motive of the overlapping of spatial and/or temporal dislocation, with such a dislocation in a mental and/or real meaning, in the work of Stephen King. In this paper, I consider the same motive in the so-called genre literature. This label, referring to science fiction, fantasy and horror, is used to display the criteria that the form of cultural communication we commonly call «l…
Managing HIV/HCV - related risk at private places among Belgrade injecting drug users
Some of the results acquired by qualitative research conducted among Belgrade injecting drug users are presented: primary aim of the research was to establish relation between HIV/HCV prevalence and socio-cultural aspects of HIV/HCV vulnerability in population issued. Understanding the way of how HIV/HCV-related risk is managed among these people in their day-to-day injecting routines is crucial tool in operating social epidemiological prevention…
Qualitative Field Research in Anthropology. An Overview of Basic Research Methodology
Methodology of qualitative anthropology study is presented, as it was used in investigating HIV/HCV-vulnerability in Belgrade injecting drug users and sex workers, as well in documenting lives of people living with HIV. Fieldwork techniques, ethical considerations, and some wider contribution of research of this type to the health issues have been reviewed particularly
Cognitive “Boy stories”
The culturally cognitive perception of Belgrade’s topographies is considered through its deployment, symbolic use and narrative foundation. As the explanatory material-one football-media incident, the use of certain areas of the city in a spectacle-ceremonial manner, knowledge and lore of certain elements of the Belgrade topographies and the organization of «the football Belgrade»-were considered. The attitude is taken that the topography of a ci…
Injecting drug users' utilization of public space in Belgrade
Results from the case-study in Belgrade injecting drug users are presented here featuring the discussion on injecting occurring within the versatility of places belong to the public space. The attention is paid mostly to the certain type of physical risk environment which is specific to Belgrade injecting scene, called "shtek", but risk production and risk management are reviewed also taking into consideration other types of physical environments
Trust, disruption and responsibility in accounts of injecting equipment sharing and hepatitis C risk
Accounts of health-related risk behaviour are generated in a social context of risk acceptability and moral responsibility. Drawing upon qualitative semi-structured interviews with injecting drug users (IDUs) in Belgrade, Serbia (n = 67) and Podgorica and Bar, Montenegro (n = 32), we explore drug injectors' accounts of sharing injecting equipment, and ‘discriminative’ and ‘exceptional’ sharing specifically, alongside accounts of hepatitis C risk.…
Contraception
Paper features basic classification of contraceptives according to their use, modus operandi, and distribution. Role of contraceptives in reproduction policies is discussed, alongside with using them as tools of identity construction in particular social and cultural contexts
The Untamed “Shrew”
Managing reproduction as an appliance of Western family planning to the Third World mostly, could be subject of the anthropological inquiry by investigating the population policy, but also by supplying anthropological methods and expertise to the policy-makers. Basic social and cultural factors of human reproduction are discussed in the paper, with an accent on local contexts, when reviewing reproductive concepts and practices
Hygiene and uncertainty in qualitative accounts of hepatitis C transmission among drug injectors in Serbia
Anthropological Life in Bush of Ghosts. Anthropology, Anthropologist and Cultural Change in Transitiona Serbia
La celebración del Centenario del programa de Etnología y Antropología de la Universidad de Belgrado en el 2006 se constituyó como una oportunidad, no solamente para hablar sobre el glorioso pasado sino para aplicar la auto-reflexión en nuestra disciplina. La revisión de los cambios sufridos por la disciplina en una Serbia de cambiantes circunstancias sociales y culturales durante más de un siglo lleva a interrogarnos cómo las vidas de los antrop…
What are genres good for
Levi-Strauss’s theoretical-methodological “legatee” – anthropological structuralism was one of the most important theoretical frameworks used in cognitive anthropology. Since it was sometimes too abstract for ‘practical’ minds, trained in British-American empirical traditions, Levi-Strauss thought was mediated through the works of British structural-functionalist, particularly those of Mary Douglas and Edmund Leach, who established its premises a…
The Same Risk, the Different Vulnerability? Social Environment as Risk-generating Factor in Injecting Drug Users and Sex Workers
Social epidemiology of blood-borne diseases has been investigated in Belgrade sex workers and injecting drug users. The overall aim of the study was to reveal factors responsible for social epidemiological exposure and vulnerability of the members of those groups, and in this paper some outcomes are discussed, namely those which suggest a little bit different patterns of establishing such vulnerability for injecting drug users and sex workers res…
Anthropology and Genre
Genre production uses the shared nature of cultural communication in order to establish certain kinds and models of cultural identity, and these identities go on to have a social and cultural existence outside genre communication. Anthropology insists on the shared nature of cultural communication, more precisely, on the fact that those who shape the information transmitted in this way have to share its code with the intended recipients. The anth…
Anthropological Studies of Popular Culture
One of the questions raised at the symposium "Our World, Other Worlds. Anthropology, Science Fiction and Cultural Identity", held in Belgrade in December 2009, is how anthropology is to study contemporary art forms: how research issues are to be defined and approached; how research is to be organized in a specific semantic area, which cannot always and with absolute certainty be said not to be an anthropological construction; whether the subject …
Reproductive Health and Reproductive Vulnerability
Reproductive health represents, almost to an equal extent, a socio-cultural and a medical fact. What influences it, both positively and negatively, stems from the ways in which we culturally cognize and act with regard to reproductive behavior. These thoughts and actions are conditioned by a culturally contextualized conceptualization of human physiology which is, in turn, based on the conceptualization of sexuality, and especially, the normativi…
How Serbian Is A Serbian Movie? The Conceptualization of the Culturally Normal and Abnormal in Present-Day Serbia
The paper seeks to construct a cultural cognitive model of normality, with the aim of showing how this cognitive category is perceived in persent-day Serbian culture by a respondent group consisting of university or college graduates or students, aged between 24 and 37, who have watched A Serbian Movie. The hypothesis of the study was that the implications of the replies to the question of why the movie is entitled as it is, would connote a conce…
Social Factors of Health Vulnerability of Marginalized Social Groups
Marginalized social groups are part of a certain apotheosis of otherness in present-day anthropological studies, being groups – such as refugees or immigrants – that come from other socio-cultural environments, and are marginalized in the anthropologists’ own environments, or environments socio-culturally similar to these. Groups that are to be considered as marginalized are those that have been put in this position contextually, through displace…
The Pop Song
The paper deals with the basic form of contemporary popular music, which is considered from a viewpoint that conceptualizes popular culture as a form of supracultural communication. This perspective differs from earlier anthropological interest in music as, above all, grounded in some form of locality, supposedly traditional and authentic, where in it tries to focus this interest on the meaning of the songs and their reception
Popular Culture
The basic questions which stem from theoretical inquiry into popular culture can be summed up as follows: whose culture is this and in what way should it be approached. The first question connotes human groups within and for which forms of popular culture are produced and by which pop-culture is consumed. The answer to the other question meanwhile concerns the disciplines which aspire toward the study of popular culture and the constitution of th…
The Temporal Contextualization of Cultural Concepts of Post Socialism, Transition and Euro Integrations in Serbia
Critical events which influence the redefining of social and cultural categories represent cultural cognitive markers of organizing narratives about social time. Viewing the disintegration of SFRY in this light, I will try to explain a certain cultural view of time which deviates from what we consider the common, linear experience of the flow of time, based on accounts of informants in which the situation in Serbia is compared to the content of c…
Intravenous Drug Use in Belgrade as a Syndemic Environment
Singer’s concept of syndemic, which signifies the combined presence of two or more diseases within a population, where these diseases represent the consequences of the way of life or living conditions of the population in question, is applied to intravenous drug use in Belgrade. The diseases which are taken into account are HIV/AIDS, HCV, pulmonary diseases and sexually transmitted diseases. It is shown that the circumstances which are inherent t…
The concept of the risk environment and riсs factors in the social-epidemiological studies of public health
Rhodeс’ concept of the riсk environment became the dominant heuriсtic tool in the сocial epidemiological сtudieс of iссueс connected to HIV/AIDS and HCV in the decade after the publication of the firсt theoretical paper (2002) on the concept. Even though the concept of riсk environment haс been widely utilized in a number of paperс on the iссue, it haс not been theoretically expanded on – there haс been no clearer highlighting of riсk factorс – a…
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