Original scientific paper
THE HAGUE TRIBUNAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL EXPERTISE: A SAD STORY ABOUT FOLKLORE
Dunja Rihtman-Auguštin
Abstract
Using a particular example of an anthropological expertise stated at one of the trials at the
Hague Tribunal, the author contemplates first of all the merit and the course of the expertise
itself, and then the problems connected with the transmission of the insights gathered
through anthropological research in a small locality (somewhat similar, yet different in
some of its features) etc. Besides, the author shows how the anthropological expertise is
understood, "remodeled" and used by the Tribunal itself. Finally, she deals with the relation
of anthropology and the meaning and the importance of folklore.
In the final part of the text, the author considers a possible integration of folklore
theories into anthropology, as a challenge for contemporary research anthropologists,
who often wrongfully neglect folklore and its importance in certain layers of the society.
Keywords
folklore; political anthropology; Bosnia and Herzegovina
Hrčak ID:
33122
URI
Publication date:
2.12.2002.
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