VIEWS OF VALTAZAR BOGISIC ON MONTENEGRO AND THE MONTENEGRO SOCIETY (BLOODFEUD - BETWEEN TRADITION AND MODERN SOCIETY)

The subject of this work is focused on the so far insufficiently illuminated results of Bogisic's orientation towards the study of Montenegrin society, with particular reference to the phenomenon of vendetta. From this point of view, Bogisic's personality and his inventive scientific research work and interest in studying the phenomenon of this kind in the specific living conditions of Montenegrin society were analyzed. Based on his works, prior to the Collection of Legal Practices in Montenegro, Herzegovina, Albania, as a widely-set method of survey, direct research in the nation, we tried to highlight the relations of unwritten national law and legislation in Montenegrin society, which went through specific historical-political development phases and changes. Getting familiar with the normal law and factual situation on the ground gave Bogisic the inspiration for additional sociological studies of the tribal society in Montenegro, so that he improved his research methods and came to valuable material, based on which we today observe and analyze a significant phase in the process of durability and the change of Montenegrin society in the second half of the 19th century. By reconstructing the Montenegrin social reality, we have established the actual course of historical processes and events, the spirit of time characterized by Montenegrin society at the same time, which also conditioned the phenomenon of vendetta. The motives that regulate the issue of vendetta have changed and modified, depending on the circumstances and changes that Montenegrin society has undergone. It could have been a drive for self-sustaining, a sense of relatives' solidarity, a belief that impunity is the element of social dislocation, a sense of honor in the individual as well as the whole of the society. Blood revenge as a phenomenon should now be seen in its historical, spatial, social frameworks. It changes in line with the development of society and raising the level of culture and civilization.