Etnoantropološki Problemi (May 2006)

Individual аnthropology or аnthropologist as an individual "gusle" player

  • Ivan Kovačević

DOI
https://doi.org/10.21301/eap.v1i1.1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 1, no. 1

Abstract

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Post­mo­dern / post cul­tu­ral texts re­du­ce anthro­po­logy to studying the in­di­vi­dual. By in­si­sting on the per­cep­tion of in­di­vi­dual dif­fe­ren­ces and ne­ga­tion of the ge­ne­ra­li­za­tion by which the ap­pa­ra­tus of anthro­po­lo­gi­cal ide­as is cre­a­ted, and ge­ne­ra­ted from ge­ne­ral ne­ga­tion of any sci­en­ti­fic ap­pa­ra­tus of ide­as, the bo­un­dary bet­we­en any wri­tings and sci­en­ce (anthro­po­logy) is era­sed. En­cro­ac­hment of such con­cepts in­to anthro­po­logy and the­ir re­cep­tion de­stroy the di­sci­pli­ne from wit­hin, so is the ca­se in a bro­a­der so­cial sco­pe, be­ca­u­se this kind of wri­ting do­esn’t re­qu­i­re aca­de­mic tra­i­ning nor aca­de­mic or sci­en­ti­fic com­mu­nity. So­cial re­spon­se of the sur­ro­un­dings and the in­tel­lec­tual reply of the very di­sci­pli­ne, dis­play the exi­sten­ce of a so­cial need for an ap­pro­ach dif­fe­rent to any wri­ting on any su­bject, a need for a sci­en­ti­fic ap­pro­ach fo­un­ded on the ap­pro­pri­a­te ge­ne­ral ap­pa­ra­tus of ide­as, dis­playing al­so that mem­bers of the gu­ild re­fu­se to be­co­me good or bad wri­ters, ar­tists, jo­ur­na­lists, scrib­bler-auto­di­dacts or ot­her ma­nu­fac­tu­rers of texts on hu­mans.

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