Love as a Subject of Anthropological Research

DOI: 10.33876/2311-0546/2023-2/333-338

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Keywords:

anthropology of emotions, anthropology of love, Ivana Basic, historiography, science in Serbia

Abstract

Book Review: Ivana Bašić. Love Threads: Concepts of Love in European and Serbian Culture. Ethnographic Institute SASA, Special Editions. Book 98. Belgrade, 2021. 329 p.

 The review presents the monograph by the Serbian researcher Ivana Bašić, who devoted her work to an anthropological analysis of the concepts of love in European and Serbian cultures. Combining romantic love and culture in one study, the author assumes that anthropological viewpoint can reveal many essential qualities of this mystery of human nature, which are peripheral to other sciences. She views sensual emotion as a social phenomenon, generated not only by physiology but also by the intellect. Considering love to be a time-varying cultural, anthropological, sociological and philosophical concept, the researcher directs her attention to the study of love as a semiotic system, to the search for key lexemes used to express feelings and experiences, as well as lexemes etymologically and semantically related to them. Reviewers, appreciating Ivana Basic's book, note her innovative methodological approach and the significance of the author's contribution to the development of the anthropology of emotions.

Author Biographies

  • Marina Martynova, The Russian Academy of Sciences N.N. Miklouho-Maklay Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology

    Martynova, Marina Yu. – Dr. of History, Professor, Head of the Department for European Studies, the Russian Academy of Sciences N. N. Miklouho-Maklay Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology (Moscow, Russian Federation). E-mail: martynova@iea.ras.ru ORCID ID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7280-7450

  • Dragana Radojičić, Serbian Academy of Science and Arts the Institute of Ethnography

    Radojičić, Dragana – Dr., Professor, Director, Science Adviser, Serbian Academy of Science and Arts the Institute of Ethnography (Belgrade, Republic of Serbia). E-mail: dragana.radojicic@ei.sanu.ac.rs ORCID ID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8952-4905

    For citation: Marina Martynova, M. Yu. and D. Radojičić. 2023. Love as a Subject of Anthropological Research. Herald of Anthropology (Vestnik Antropologii). 2: 333–338.

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Published

01.06.2023

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No. 2 (2023): Herald of Anthropology

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Reviews