This paper represents a short, informative essay on current search into the connections between popular culture, science, religion and anthropology. Using the example of popular cosmology, it points to the relationship between identity, science, philosophy and religion within the framework of contemporary Western society. It also points to the significance of semiotic analysis of the popular cosmological narrative and the possibility of interpreting this narrative as a form of folklore. Furthermore, it emphasizes the social significance of popular science as such, within the contexts of the science and culture wars at the turn of the century.
Keywords:
popular science / the cosmological narrative / myth / folklore / philosophy of science / purpose / sense / secular myth
Source:
Prospects for Anthropological Research in South-East Europe, 2019, 43-65
Publisher:
Moscow : N. N. Miklouho-Maklay Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology Russian Academy of Sciences
TY - CHAP
AU - Tomašević, Milan
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AB - This paper represents a short, informative essay on current search into the connections between popular culture, science, religion and anthropology. Using the example of popular cosmology, it points to the relationship between identity, science, philosophy and religion within the framework of contemporary Western society. It also points to the significance of semiotic analysis of the popular cosmological narrative and the possibility of interpreting this narrative as a form of folklore. Furthermore, it emphasizes the social significance of popular science as such, within the contexts of the science and culture wars at the turn of the century.
PB - Moscow : N. N. Miklouho-Maklay Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology Russian Academy of Sciences
PB - Belgrade : Institute of Ethnography SASA
T2 - Prospects for Anthropological Research in South-East Europe
T1 - Anthropological Interpretation of Popular Cosmology: Research Perspectives
SP - 43
EP - 65
DO - 10.33876/978-542-110-238-0/43–65
UR - https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_7464
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Tomašević, M.. (2019). Anthropological Interpretation of Popular Cosmology: Research Perspectives. in Prospects for Anthropological Research in South-East Europe
Moscow : N. N. Miklouho-Maklay Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology Russian Academy of Sciences., 43-65.
https://doi.org/10.33876/978-542-110-238-0/43–65
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_7464
Tomašević M. Anthropological Interpretation of Popular Cosmology: Research Perspectives. in Prospects for Anthropological Research in South-East Europe. 2019;:43-65.
doi:10.33876/978-542-110-238-0/43–65
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_7464 .
Tomašević, Milan, "Anthropological Interpretation of Popular Cosmology: Research Perspectives" in Prospects for Anthropological Research in South-East Europe (2019):43-65,
https://doi.org/10.33876/978-542-110-238-0/43–65 .,
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_7464 .
