STEREOTYPE AND STUDIES OF THE BALKANS

Authors

  • Gordana Đerić Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade

Keywords:

representations of Others, mental mapping, stereotype, the Balkans, balkanism

Abstract

This paper is the altered version of lecture given to students of ethnology and anthropology on March 13th 2009, adapted for print. The lecture was a reply to invitation by the Centre for Ethnological and Anthropological Research of the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade, and part of the seminar Antropološka agora (Anthropological Agora). First segment of the text sketches, from perspective of several disciplines and in general lines, historical development of representations of Others and terms tightly attached to these representations. In the second part author focuses her attention to Balkan studies, and to status and dilemmas regarding treatment of the stereotype phenomenon within them.

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Published

2009-12-31

How to Cite

Đerić, G. (2009). STEREOTYPE AND STUDIES OF THE BALKANS. Anthropology, 9(9), 11–26. Retrieved from https://www.antropologija.com/index.php/an/article/view/332

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 9 (2009): Anthropology

Section

Original scientific paper