Politics on the Football Field: An Overview of the Relationship between Ideology and Sport in Serbia

2019 Этнографическое обозрение  
The book marks a new phase in the fruitful collaboration between the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology Russian Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Ethnography Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. It is an important publication for any future research on the development of ethnology and anthropology in Southeast Europe. The papers presented here, the topics they raise and the methods they employ, comprise an overview of the issues, concepts, phenomena and research methodologies
more » ... pology in this has been dealing with in the early 21st century. Positions of the discipline itself, transformations of traditional culture and various phenomena of contemporary culture in Southeastern Europe are subjected to a theoretical scrutiny in the papers of this volume. This volume is divided into three parts. The first, "Networking" and identity -contemporary ethnological and anthropological (self)reflection -is dedicated to theoretical and UDK 39+655.535.564; methodological questioning of ethnology and anthropology in the conditions of desired interdisciplinarity and "project" research, as well as paneuropean and international mobility and connection, that lead to changes in the relationship toward "classic" ethnological topics of national identity and folk tradition, as well as to changes in the status of ethnology and anthropology among the humanities. The second part -The new clothes of traditions -deals with the transformations of folk traditions in the modern world and contemporary approaches to traditional phenomena. The third part -(Post)modern games and rituals -encompasses anthropological research into phenomena that came into being in the periods of modernism and postmodernism, and their relationship with ideological, national and religious identities. The paper that opens the first chapter is by Ines Prica (The Institute of Ethnology and Folkloristics, Zagreb), Delivery of Ethnographic Material. The Work of Ethnologists in the Conditions of "Project Interdisciplinarity", in which the author considers the state of ethnology and the humanities in the conditions of interdisciplinarity and the "projectification" of science. The author focuses on changes in perception and the performativity of ethnology in the context of interdisciplinary projects, which leads to the fact that a general ethnological overview is often left without key disciplinary bases, which subsequently leads to the reduction of the professional work of ethnologists, and their relegation to "purveyors of material" for further analytic procedures. Petko Hristov (The Institufe of Ethnography BAS, Bulgaria) in the paper Multidimensional Identity and National Tradition under the Conditions of Pan-European Mobility. Is Ethnology of a United Europe Possible? analyzes the challenges which the new millennium, followed by the changes in socio-political climate (the fall of the Iron curtain, the spread of the EU and the drastic transformation of the southeastern part of Europe) brought to ethnologists in the Balkans. These changes were evident in the change of the subjects of ethnological research, as well as in the construction of multidimensional identities in Europe. The conditions of pan-European mobility influence the changes in the nature of national identity and the relationship toward cultural and historical heritage which is understood as "folk tradition". UDK 39 The paper problematises the new conditions in which the humanities are operating, with special emphasis on the requirements imposed upon the institutional foundation and perception of disciplinary identity by the tendency of projectification. The analysis is more narrowly focused on the change in the perception and performative aspects of ethnology in the context of "project interdisciplinarity". While in such a mosaic common field of various disciplinary claims and goals, it is primarily represented by the symbolic capital of its "famous" ethnographic method, the general ethnological insight, in final outcomes, often left deprived of the key disciplinary strongholds, together with the complex, although somewhat idealistic model of humanistic ethnography. Consequently, the trend leads to the reduction of the professional work of ethnologists to the "suppliers of material" for further analytical procedures and the later finalisation of the scientific product.
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