thropological inquiries build on fine-grained and long-term fieldwork and focus on practices and relationships that individuals, institutions and societies create and sustain within specific social and cultural environments. Both individual and collective discursive and material practices are studied. People’s cultural and societal ways of being and becoming, ethical stances, patterns of behaviour, ideas and modes of imagining seminally structure and organise the ways in which people think of, articulate and experience the world. Anthropological objective is thus not only to unravel the meanings embedded in various social and cultural phenomena but to understand the impetus for their emergence, as well as the conditions for their existence. In other words, we seek to document, contextualise and explain the dynamics and the assumptions about both past and contemporary modes of people’s worldmaking. 

“Anthropology: Understanding Worldmaking Practices” doctoral program at the Postgraduate school ZRC SAZU invites graduate students interested in an intensive study that builds on key scholarly developments in anthropological theory and practice. The students will learn central theoretical propositions of the discipline; they will be trained in critical thinking/reading skills; they will be taught how to conduct long-term fieldwork and rigorously collect, compare and analyse ethnographic data. They will be mentored in writing-up the particularities as well as novel horizons that are enabled by ethnographic descriptions.

The lecturers at the Anthropology module are distinguished scholars who have researched and published on various topics (e.g. cosmologies and social relationships, the notions of subjectivity, spatial and political organization, violence and conflict resolution, social movements, human rights, environmental issues, agrarian anthropology, archaeoastronomy, youth studies, death and dying, gender relations, mental health, semiotics, etc.). They continue to actively pursue their own particular field-research in variously Albania, Amazonia, Mexico, Papua New Guinea, Serbia and Slovenia, providing expert regional knowledge on South-eastern Europe, Latin America and Oceania.