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Антрополошко проучавање популарне културе
Anthropological Studies of Popular Culture

Author(s): Bojan Žikić
Subject(s): Anthropology, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Sociology of Culture, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010)
Published by: Филозофски факултет, Универзитет у Београду
Keywords: anthropology and art; popular culture; cultural communication; genre;

Summary/Abstract: 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 of research can be said to have the shared nature of cultural communication; whether the anthropologist is to interpret the author/artist’s intention, or that which is produced as a result of that intention, etc. The aim of this paper is to suggest some answers to these questions, from the point of view of a researcher focused on cultural communication.

  • Issue Year: 5/2010
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 17-39
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: Serbian