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Aleksandar Bošković
Aleksandar Bošković (born 5 June 1962) is a Macedonian anthropologist. Since February 2023, he is Visiting Professor of Social Anthropology at the PPGAS, Federal University of the North Rio Grande in Natal (Brazil). He wrote or edited nineteen books and several hundred articles on history and theory of anthropology, mostly from a Transactionalism, transactionalist and comparative perspective. In 2018/19 he was a Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies (Institut d'Études Avancées) in Lyon. Together with his colleague and economics professor John Hamman (Florida State University), Bošković organized a two-day conference about rationality, at the University of Lyon, on 10–11 April 2019. Bošković is editor of the series "Anthropology's Ancestors," published by Berghahn Books, and co-editor of the ''Anthropological Journal of European Cultures''. Since 1 October 2019 he is Senior Research Scientist ("naučni savetnik") at the Institute of Archaeology in Belgrad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zemun
Zemun ( sr-cyrl, Земун, ; hu, Zimony) is a municipality in the city of Belgrade. Zemun was a separate town that was absorbed into Belgrade in 1934. It lies on the right bank of the Danube river, upstream from downtown Belgrade. The development of New Belgrade in the late 20th century expanded the continuous urban area of Belgrade and merged it with Zemun. The town was conquered by the Kingdom of Hungary in the 12th century and in the 15th century it was given as a personal possession to the Serbian despot Đurađ Branković. After the Serbian Despotate fell to the Ottoman Empire in 1459, Zemun became an important military outpost. Its strategic location near the confluence of the Sava and the Danube placed it in the center of the continued border wars between the Habsburg and the Ottoman empires. The Treaty of Belgrade of 1739 finally placed the town into Habsburg possession, the Military Frontier was organized in the region in 1746, and the town of Zemun was granted the rig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
