Social and cultural antropology

Acquisition of general and basic academic knowledge about the socio-cultural structure and socio-cultural processes necessary for further professional and professional development.

Students will acquire fundamental and developmental knowledge about the origin, nature and character of culture, cultural changes and cultural processes.

1. Cyclical and idealistic theory of Pitirim Alexandrovich Sorokin
2. Oswald Spengler's historicist and structuralist theory
3. Christian-eschatological theory of Nikolay Berdjaev
4. The empiricist-fatalist theory of Arnold Toynbee
5. Functional-institutionalist theory of Talcott Parsons
6. Functionalist and biological theory of culture by Bronislav Malinovski
7. Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory and Herbert Marcuse's affirmative theory
8. Dialectical-materialist and historical-humanistic theory of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
9. Jean Henri's technical-technological theory of culture
10. Philosophical-anthropological theory of Heinrich Rickert and Arnold Gelen
11. Cultural-anthropological and cultural-relativistic theory of Franz Boas
12. Alfred Luis Kerber's cultural-anthropological and evolutionary theory
13. Cultural theory of Leslie White
14. Herbert Spencer's total-evolutionist theory
15. Lewis Henry Morgan's evolutionist-materialist theory

1. 1. Đukić, N., Teorije kulture, Banja Luka, 2010.

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2. 2. Hač, E., Antropološke teroije, BIGZ, Beograd, 1979.

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Knowledge will be tested during the semester through colloquiums and seminar papers, and at the end of the semester in the form of an academic interview.

Teaching will be conducted in the form of lectures and exercises. Lectures will be structured through thematic theoretical presentations of teaching units and discussion or conversation. The exercises will consist of an analysis of the literature, the understanding and mastery of which the student proves by the continuous preparation and defense of the seminar paper. During the semester, the material covered through lectures and exercises will be partially checked through two binding colloquiums. After completing the pre-examination requirements (colloquium and seminar papers), students acquire the right to take the entire course material in the form of a final oral exam (academic interview).