Između "azijatskog" islama i "pravoslavnog" slovenstva : jugoslovenski muslimani u ranoj srpskoj etnologiji

Abstract

Tekst govori o percepcijama i politikama reprezentacije muslimanskog sta-novništva Kraljevine SHS u međuratnoj srpskoj etnologiji. Analizirane su tri monogra-fije objavljene tokom druge dekade 20. veka. Obavljena su tri nivoa analize, diskurziv-ni, teorijsko-metodološki i konceptualni, sa svrhom sticanja preciznijih uvida o smislu, sadržaju i procedurama naučne argumentacije, kao i o značaju i određenim propustima razmatranih tekstova. Kriterijumi za odabir analiziranih publikacija bili su sledeći: 1) da se one po temi, sadržaju i sklopu argumentacije uklapaju u oblast nacionalne nauke, čiji je zadatak bio da definiše identitet i bori se za interese nacije, istovremeno trasira-jući pravce njenog moralnog, političkog i intelektualnog razvoja pod barjakom moder-nosti; 2) da se u potpunosti, a ne samo sporadično bave etnologijom islama, odnosno kulturnim životom muslimana na području međuratne Jugoslavije; i 3) da su objavljene u Srbiji u period između dva svetska rata. Samim tim što otkrivaju više o posmatraču nego o posmatranom, tekstovi ovim člankom uzeti u razmatranje prenose nam važne pojedinosti o istorijskim uslovima, imperativima epohe, ali i о osnovnim vrednostima koje su oblikovale saznajne horizonte ondašnje nacionalne nauke.

This paper examines the perceptions and the politics of representation of Muslims in Serbian ethnology during the period of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. The analyzed textual data consists of three monographs published in the second decade of the 20th century. Three levels of analysis – discoursive, theoretical-methodological and conceptual – have been conducted for the purpose of attaining clearer insights into the meaning, content and procedures of scientific argumentation, along with the observation of potential significance and certain flaws of the examined texts. The criteria for selection of the analyzed publications were as follows: 1) that the topics, content, and forms of argumentation put forward in the examined texts correspond to the domain of national science, whose goals were to define the identity and defend the interests of the nation, while simultaneously paving the way of its moral, political and intellectual development under the banner of modernity; 2) that the publications were entirely, and not only partially, focused on the themes peculiar to the ethnology of Islam, i.e. on the cultural life of Muslims residents of the Yugoslav Kingdom; and 3) that they were published in Serbia. In as much as they reveal more about the observer than the observed, the here analyzed texts uncover some important features of historical conditions, the imperatives of the era, as well as some basic values which shaped the horizons of insight of the Serbian national science at this period.