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Улога појединаца у преношењу традиције унутар система културе
The Role of Personalities in Passing-Down the Tradition within the System of Culture

Author(s): Jana Pospíšilová, Milesa Stefanović-Banović
Subject(s): Customs / Folklore, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Post-War period (1950 - 1989)
Published by: Етнографски институт САНУ
Keywords: tradition; system of culture; modernism; postmodernism; legacy of the past;

Summary/Abstract: The perception of the role of individual creator as a bearer of the legacy of the past changed significantly especially at the beginning of the 1980s, alongside the arrival of modernists, such as Ernest Gellner, Benedict Anderson or later-on, Eric Hobsbawm. The mentioned personalities and their successors who based their theories on theses about the inventions of traditions that are ideologies of modern industrial era gradually die out. The Postmodernism puts the individuality in a different light and its relation to the past changes as well.

  • Issue Year: LXV/2017
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 249-254
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: English, Serbian