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Rajko Muršič

Rajko Muršič, PhD
full professor/reader (methodology and cultural anthropology)
E: rajko.mursic@ff.uni-lj.si
T: +386-1-241 15 30

Contact hours (room 307)
Monday 10:00-11:00
Tuesday 8:15-8:45

Biography

Born in Maribor, 1963; BA in ethnology and philosophy (1991), MA in cultural anthropology (1995), PhD in ethnology (1998). In 2004 he was elected associate professor (reader). He worked as a part-time journalist and redactor (1986-1998), served as the chief editor of the journal Glasnik SED and its monographs collection (1994-1997). He was a founder and the first editor of the monograph series Zupaničeva knjižnica (1999-2002). He is a member of more than a dozen international and domestic professional associations, bodies and editorial boards and is active in organisation of international conferences and summer schools (Mess; Easa, Konitsa Summer School in Anthropology, Ethnography and Comparative Folklore of the Balkans…)

Fields of Research

epistemology and methodology, theory of culture, anthropology of music (popular music), urban anthropology, anthropology of space and place, popular culture, theory of science, identification processes, racism, etc.

Fieldwork

Slovenia, Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe (Poland, Germany, Serbia, Macedonia); Japan, transnational intercultural interactions.

Teaching

Introduction to Methodology, Current Theories of Culture and Society, Popular Culture; seminars on related topics. He also lectures in the postgraduate studies, Selected Topics in Current Ethnological Methodology.

Bibliography

(Full bibliography online)

Monographs (in Slovene):

1. Neubesedljive zvočne igre: od filozofije k antropologiji glasbe. [Non-verbal Sound Games: from Philosophy to Anthropology of Music.] Katedra, Maribor 1993.
2. Center za dehumanizacijo: etnološki oris rock skupine. [Centre for Dehumanisation: Ethnological Description of the Rock Group.] Frontier and ZKO, Pesnica 1995.
3. V sen sem jih videl. [In the Dreams I Saw them – Photo-stories of CZD.] Frontier and ZKD Pesnica, Pesnica 1999. (Collaboration with CZD.)
4. Trate vaše in naše mladosti: Zgodba o mladinskem in rock klubu. [Trate: The Story of the Youth and Rock Club.] Subkulturni azil, Ceršak 2000.

Edited volumes:

1. Razvoj slovenske etnologije od Štreklja in Murka do sodobnih etnoloških prizadevanj. Zbornik prispevkov s kongresa, Ljubljana, Cankarjev dom, 24.-27.oktober 1995. [Development of the Slovene Ethnology since Štrekelj and Murko Till Contemporary Ethnological Undertakings. Ljubljana: Slovene Ethnological Society.] (Co-edited by Mojca Ramšak.) Slovensko etnološko društvo (Knjižnica Glasnika SED 23), Ljubljana 1995. [In Slovene]
2. Prejudices and Stereotypes in the Social Sciences and Humanities; Didactic Experiences in the Introducing of Novelties in the Ethnological Curricula. Etnološka stičišča/Ethnological Contacts 5 & 7. (Co-edited by Božidar Jezernik.) Znanstveni inštitut Filozofske fakultete, Ljubljana 1997. [In English]
3. MESS: Mediterranean Ethnological Summer School. Vol. 3. Piran/Pirano, Slovenia 1997 and 1998. (Co-edited by Zmago Šmitek.) Filozofska fakulteta, Ljubljana 1999. [In English]
4. Cultural Processes and Transformations in Transition of the Central and Eastern European Post-Communist Countries. Etnološka stičišča/Ethnological Contacts/Zbieżności etnologiczne 9. (Co-edited by Borut Brumen.) Filozofska fakulteta, Ljubljana 1999. [In English]
5. MESS: Mediterranean Ethnological Summer School. Vol. 5. Piran/Pirano, Slovenia 2001 and 2002. (Co-edited by Irena Weber.) Filozofska fakulteta, Ljubljana 2003.
6. Europe and its Other: Notes on the Balkans. (Co-edited by Božidar Jezernik and Alenka Bartulović.) Univerza v Ljubljani, Filozofska fakulteta, Ljubljana 2007.
7. Places of Encounter: In memoriam Borut Brumen. (Co-edited by Jaka Repič.) Univerza v Ljubljani, Filozofska fakulteta, Ljubljana 2007.

Papers (selection)

1. The Yugoslav Dark Side of Humanity: A View from a Slovene Blind Spot.' In Neighbors at War: Anthropological Perspectives on Yugoslav Ethnicity, Culture, and History. Joel M. Halpern and David A. Kideckel, eds. The Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park 2000, pp. 56-77.
2. Local Feedback: Slovene Popular Music between the Global Market and Local Consumption.' In Heimatlose Klänge? Regionale Musiklandschaften – heute –. Thomas Phleps, ed. Beiträge zur Popularmusikforschung 29/30, Karben 2002, pp. 125-148.
3. In the Arms of the Sublime Objects of Desire: On Politics and Anthropology/Ethnology in Slovenia.' In A Post-Comunist Millenium: The Struggles for Sociocultural Anthropology in Central and Eastern Europe. Prague Studies in Sociocultural Anthropology 2. Petr Skalník, ed. Set Out, Prague 2002, pp. 147-165.
4. 'The Colourful Discourse of the Geographic Other: On Race and Racism in General Education (Slovenian Example).' In: Anthropology of Europe: Teaching and Research. Peter Skalník, ed. Prague Studies in Sociocultural Anthropology 3. Set Out, Prague 2005, pp. 37-50.
5. 'The Balkans and Ambivalence of its Perception in Slovenia: the Horror of “Balkanism” and Enthusiasm for its Music.' In: Europe and its Other: Notes on the Balkans. Božidar Jezernik, Rajko Muršič, and Alenka Bartulović, eds. Univerza v Ljubljani, Filozofska fakulteta, Ljubljana 2007, pp. 87-105.
6. 'Contested/Reified Symbols and the Eclipse of the Critical Reason: Some Remarks on Socialist and Post-socialist Culture, Ideology, Religion, and Freedom in Slovenia – and Around.' In: Places of Encounter: In memoriam Borut Brumen. Rajko Muršič and Jaka Repič, eds. Univerza v Ljubljani, Filozofska fakulteta, Ljubljana 2007, pp. 131-150.

 

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