Workshop 3
Anthropological
Relevance of Popular Culture
Convenors:
Jochen Bonz, University
of Bremen
Rajko Muršič,
University of Ljubljana
Discussants:
Jasmina Milojević,
University of Belgrade
Various forms of emerging
and vanishing lifestyles and fashions
could be considered as a
natural experiment for anthropological
investigation. We have to
understand popular culture as a field
where the globalised
culture is becoming visible and analysable.
Colourful diversity of
contemporary world is not only stretched
between the global flows
and local invariables, or between
translocal traffic and
localised rootedness, but unprecedently
fluid, fleeting and
frivolous. However, not only considering its role
in socialisation to the
modern society, popular culture in many
occasions provides virtual
experience for people who would never
form any kind of society or
a group in its strict sense. Or the
common
“mediated” experience can, on the other hand, lead to
formation of different
modern we-groups or “tribes” (Maffesoli).
We shall discuss the role
of popular culture, especially popular
music, dance, fashion,
film, and the like, in formation of virtual
and real communities,
“tribes” and scenes. Especially important
may become discussion of
the different kinds of understanding
and misunderstanding or new
understanding of such basic
concepts as “the
cult”. Can we understand the phenomena as
fandom without redefinition
of such concepts? Or can we discuss
“techno tribes”
without redefinition of the concept of “the ritual”?
And can we discuss virtual
communities on/with the Internet
without redefinition of the
term “communication”?
The Popular Culture:
Praxis and Empathic Community
Wojciech J. Burszta, Warsaw
School of Social Psychology
Flyerspaces/Technoscene.
An Ethnographic Approach to an
Urban Formation
Anja
Schwanhäußer, Humboldt University, Berlin
Identity of Youth
Cultures in Post-Modern Society: The Skater-
Scene
Michael Parzer, University
of Vienna
Rite and Intertext -
Looking for Interpretation on the Basis of
Experience from
Party-Culture
Terézia Nagy,
University of Szeged
Music Events as
Narrative Genre: Virtual and Real
Communities
Miroslava Lukić
Krstanović, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Singing Politics of
Croatian Transition
Ines Prica, Institute of
Ethnology and Folklore Research, Zagreb
The Westernisation of
Russian Youth Culture
Clementine Fujimura, United
States Naval Academy
“Foreign
Dancers“: The Dance Club as a Field for the Construction
of Collective Identity
Among African Labour Migrants in Israel
Uri Dorchin, Ben-Gurion
University of the Negev