KА ПРОБЛЕМУ СЕКУНДАРНОГ АРХАИЗМА У АНТРОПОЛОШКОМ ПРОУЧАВАЊУ ЈУЖНИХ СЛОВЕНА

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Terms primitive and archaic represent a part of historical heritage of European and American anthropology. They were used for signifying objects of anthropological research such as primitive people, primitive society, primitive culture. A problem arose though: based on what criteria were some people and societies classified as primitive (and/or archaic), and others as civilized? A research conducted in Brazil resulted in conviction that due to changes in surrounding environment and ways of productions, some tribes had reached the state of cultural regression which was termed faux archaisme (Lévi-Strauss). The same phenomenon among South Slavs and other Balkan people (caused by Ottoman invasion 15th – 19th century) was ascertained in 1902 by Serbian geographer Jovan CvijiK, who named the phenomenon ethnographic rejuvenation (etnografsko osvežavanje) and ethnographic re-creation (etnografska rekreacija).