U službi kontinuiteta - etno-arheologija u Srbiji

Abstract

Etnoarheologija, kao važna subdisciplina arheologije, u Srbiji se nije razvila pošto su putevi koji su mogli voditi ka njoj, bili zakrčeni različitim koncepcijama ideje kontinuiteta. U srpskoj arheologiji se tako kontinuitet shvatao ili kao nastavak direktnih egejskih i grčkih uticaja, kao metafizički kontinuitet duha, neobjašnjivi 'idealtipski' kontinuitet, nacionalni kontinuitet, ili kao transmisija kulturnih tradicija. Zajedničko svim ovim različitim paradigmama je to da je kontinuitet prihvatan kao nešto što se podrazumeva, a savremeni etnografski materijal je služio samo kao ilustracija dugog trajanja pojedinih kulturnih oblika. Prava vrednost etnoarheologije, kao puta ka prevazilaženju statičnog arheološkog zapisa i ka uspostavljanju uvida u dinamiku prošlosti, nije bila iskorišćena.

Ethnoarchaeology as a sub-discipline of archaeology primarily entails survey and research of various aspects of contemporary societies, in order to enable archaeologists to understand the dynamic processes that have created in the past the phenomena we now recognize as archaeological material, i.e. archaeological record. Ethnoarchaeological studies in Serbia have been ill-fated, since almost all the roads leading towards this approach have been jammed by various conceptions of the idea of continuity. In the Serbian archaeology, continuity has been understood as continuation of direct Aegean and Greek influences, as a metaphysical continuity of spirit, inexplicable 'idealtypical' continuity, national continuity, or as a transmission of cultural traditions. Common to all these paradigms is the understanding of continuity as a given, and the contemporaneous ethnographic material has been used solely as an illustration of the long life of certain cultural shapes. The true value of ethnoarchaeology as a way of overcoming the static's of the archaeological record and gaining insight into the dynamics of the past has never been realized.