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Anthropologists Facing the Collapse of Yugoslavia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2024

Bojan Baskar
Bojan Baskar*
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University of Ljubljana
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In extreme situations such as war, genocide or refugee crises, anthropologists, who are usually closer to afflicted people than other scholars, face the crucial questions of the utility and responsibility of anthropology. However, anthropologists in particular are susceptible to the way of reasoning that concludes that anthropology as a science (or even as a technique or art) does not offer any answers to these questions. Some become engaged trying to help one way or the other, yet not as anthropologists, since they hold that as an anthropologist one is powerless to help …

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Diogenes , Volume 47 , Issue 188 , December 1999 , pp. 51 - 63
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Copyright © ICPHS 1999

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