Aleksandar Bošković is a social anthropologist from former Yugoslavia, who published ten books and a number of articles on history and theory of anthropology, from a transactionalist and comparative perspective. He is Professor in the Department of Ethnology and Anthropology (University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy), and previously taught at the Universities of St Andrews (1994), Belgrade (then Yugoslavia, 1998), Brasília (Brazil, 1999-2001), University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg, South Africa, 2001-2003), and Rhodes University (Grahamstown, South Africa, 2003-2006). Between 2000 and 2014, Aleksandar Bošković was teaching in the Post-graduate Program in Anthropology of the Faculty of Social Sciences (FDV), University of Ljubljana (Slovenia). Just before the most recent confere