To browse Academia. He was mentor for several dozens of students undertaking their master theses and doctoral dissertations. His closing words, always pertinent and kind, were anticipated with impatience and attention as a crown of success and effort.
Streams of archaeologists from the museums across the divided Yugoslav area, who were his friends and enjoyed his sincere attention and counselling, would often turn up in his office. He was also distinguished by his devoted work in the Serbian Archaeological Society. As a longterm president of the ancient section of the Society, he is remembered for his unique comments and useful suggestions to his colleagues upon presentation of their papers. He possessed enormous energy and was big-hearted, extremely modest regarding himself, but generous and cordial with all others.
The interpretation of the universal principle of the confrontation of death and life, the interlacing of these black and white squares in a game decided by fate, where the will of the dice on a celestial tabula lusoria determines and knows everything in advance, perhaps shows his own principle, which is avoiding the traps of vanity, glory or profit.
Let us remember at the end a wise saying: Quas dederis, solas semper habebis opes. If these words written by Martial Epigr. Histories of archaeology show that our disciplinary knowledge has immensely diverse origins: not just in terms of interactions with other fields of scientific inquiry, but inside the field of archaeology itself. In other words: the knowledge that is now perceived as canonical has often been conceived through networks outside institutional circles and their rules.
The aim of this paper is to examine one of such networks, webbed around Austrian autodidact, Felix Kanitz, at the beginning of the institutional phase of the Serbian archaeology. His iconic status in Serbian archaeology is shown through the fact that even today his works are the starting point of almost every archaeological project in the country. Kanitz was the heart of the informal network which gathered scientists of different statuses, academic and ethnic origins, and political views. The references are divided into three segments: monographs; chapters, papers and other periodicals; and translations and book reviews, all of which are placed in chronological order.
