Writing History or History of Anthropology as Anthropological Problem

Tekst se bavi problemima koje donose pisanje i objavljivanje istorija antropologije. Posebno se razmatra situacija sa objavljenim knjigama na ovu temu u delovima nekadašnje Jugoslavije – pre svega u Srbiji, Hrvatskoj i Sloveniji – kao i sa njihovom primenjivošću u kursevima na fakultetima gde se predaje istorija antropologije. Kao konkretna "studija slučaja" analizira se novo, dopunjeno izdanje Eriksenove i Nilsenove knjige (Eriksen i Nielsen 2013). Na kraju teksta autor pruža još nekoliko primera pisanja istorije antropologije, koji pokazuju kombinaciju praktičnih i političkih elemenata, kao i neke od rizika koje sa sobom nosi ova vrsta tekstova.The paper deals with some methodological and practical problems involved in writing and publishing histories of anthropology. A particular emphasis is on the situation with published books dealing with the subject in the former Yugoslavia, especially in Croatia, Serbia and Slovenia. The author then briefly reviews the usefulness of specific anthropological books for the teaching of history of anthropology. A recent revised edition of Eriksen and Nielsen’s "A History of Anthropology" is used as the case study of the book on this topic. The paper concludes with several other relatively recent examples that demonstrate how writing history of anthropology combines practical and political aspects