Aleksandar
Boskovic has degrees from the University of Belgrade, Tulane University, and
the University of St. Andrews.
He has published two books including Religion
and Culture of the Maya, in Serbo- Croatian.
He has also written on current
events in Serbia for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Fortnight Magazine
(Belfast).
(from ctheory, 1997)
Histories, peoples, places... the Authorized (mostly academic) biography
Aleksandar Bošković was born (because he had no alternative) on 5 June 1962 in Zemun, in the country then called “FNR Yugoslavia.” Happily unmarried and no children that he could claim to be responsible for.
Spent some years in the so-called “pro-democracy” journalism (1983-1990), in the process working for the Belgrade Student and writing for almost all of the major (mostly Belgrade-based) Yugoslav magazines at the time. Most recently (March 2011), wrote for the weekly NIN.
Since August 2009, Aleksandar is Director of Research (“Naučni savetnik” – equivalent to the Habilitation in the German academic world) and Head of the Center for Political Research and Public Opinion in the Institute of Social Sciences in Belgrade (Serbia), where he works since 1 July 2003. From October 2009, is also Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, teaching several undergraduate and one doctoral-level course.
Previously taught at the Universities of St Andrews, Belgrade (then Yugoslavia), Brasília (Brazil), Witwatersrand (Johannesburg, South Africa), and Rhodes University (Grahamstown, South Africa). From 2000, until 2010, Bošković was teaching Contemporary Anthropology and Anthropology and Feminism in the Post-graduate Program in Anthropology of the Faculty of Social Sciences (FDV), University of Ljubljana. Currently supervising one M.A. thesis there.
In early March 2011, Aleksandar Bošković organized a conference on Balkan/ Southeast European ethnologies/ anthropologies, with Chris Hann, at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle (Saale), Germany The_Rise_of_Anthropology_2402.pdf. An edited book of contributions from this conference is now in preparation.
Aleksandar spoke on individualism at the Centre for Cosmopolitan Studies and School of Modern Languages, University of St. Andrews (Scotland), on 23 March 2011. On 20 April presented a comparative view of the rise of anthropologies in Croatia, Serbia and Slovenia at the Institute of Social Anthropology, Wilhelms University of Münster (Germany) – http://www.uni-muenster.de/ethnologie , and, on 28April, also spoke on “Psychoanalysis and Anthropology” at the 113th Gellner Seminar in Prague (Czech Republic). This period of exceptional activity was in part due to the brilliant working conditions and overall exciting intellectual atmosphere encountered as a Guest Researcher at the Max Planck Institute (8 March – 17 May).
His most recent claim to fame is an edited volume, Other People’s Anthropologies: Ethnographic Practice on the Margins (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2008; paperback edition in 2010), a book that received very good reviews, and is being used at many prestigious universities throughout the world http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=BoskovicOther . However, the recent book is Kratak uvod u antropologiju [A Brief Introduction to Anthropology], published in late 2010 by the Jesenski i Turk in Zagreb (Croatia) – http://www.jesenski-turk.hr/?active=knjiga&book=51604 . That is a revised and expanded version of the title that was already published in Belgrade in March 2010, and more editions (Russia, Slovenia, Czech Republic) are on the horizon. Some important journal publications will come out in 2012 and 2013 as well.
Sometimes blogs at http://passajero.blogspot.com . Aleksandar still believes that some form of anarchism is the best possible sociopolitical system (especially when respecting the rights of others), and that people should disregard all forms of authority whenever and wherever possible. Also has great respect for libertarianism, which he does not see as a unified “system” or “school.” He also believes that people should do their best to oppose all forms of nationalism, racism, sexism, any fundamentalism, or imperialism.
Since August 1990, Aleksandar Bošković taught & lived in five countries on the three continents, which also brought him an extraordinary array of wonderful friends, from the Canary Islands and Bulgaria, to the UK, Brazil, South Africa, USA, Italy, Germany, Norway, Croatia, Slovenia, Spain and Serbia… Appreciates Scotch malt whiskey (especially Glen Garioch, but Knockando and Isle of Jura are in the top three as well) and Croatian and Slovenian wines. Multiculturalism is OK.
He accepts Vuk Ćosić's dictum of being a No Land’s Man.
Curriculum Vitae+Bibliography
+ Lectures - Last updated: 17 February 2011
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