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Socio-kulturna antropologija danas
Socio-Cultural Anthropology Today

Author(s): Aleksandar Bošković
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Recent History (1900 till today), Structuralism and Post-Structuralism, Marxism, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Sociology of Culture
Published by: Sociološko naučno društvo Srbije
Keywords: history of anthropology; contemporary anthropological theory; methodology of social sciences;

Summary/Abstract: The article presents a history of the development of theoretical perspectives within the social and cultural anthropology from the early 20th century. Beginning with functionalism and structural functionalism, the author traces the influences of structuralism, Marxism, interpretivism, gender, cultural and post-colonial studies, concluding with a set of five themes characteristic for the contemporary anthropological research.

  • Issue Year: 44/2002
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 329-342
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Serbian