|
Lecturer(s)
|
-
Havlíček Jakub, Mgr. Ph.D.
|
|
Course content
|
1. What is anthropology?; 2. Defining culture; 3. Cultural categories, organizing and categorizing the universe; 4. Doing fieldwork, practice of research, ethics; 5. Language and symbols in cultural anthropology; 6. Anthropology of religion: magic and religion, ritual; 7. Production, distribution consumption and exchange; 8. Social organization, family, kinship; 8. Gender and sexuality; 9. Power, politics, colonialism, orientalism; 10. Global and local identities, plurality of identities, individual and collective identities; 11. Anthropology of the body; 12. Culture change; 13. Anthropology applied: cultural anthropology in the world today.
|
|
Learning activities and teaching methods
|
|
Lecture, Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming)
|
|
Learning outcomes
|
The course aims at providing introduction to the ways of critical reflection, analysis and evaluation of visual material such as documentary films and movies, from the point of view of cultural anthropology. The course is based on commented screenings of selected ethnographic and anthropological documentary films and popular movies, on class discussions, and on reading of selected anthropological and ethnographic writings. We will examine the diversity of ways the filmmakers and ethnographers portray different cultures. We will also focus on the diversity of approaches towards seeing and representing various anthropological topics through documentary films and cinema. Several issues will be discussed: orientalism, colonialism, power relations, intercultural exchange, religion and ritual, social identity, traditional theatre, music and dance, etc. The lectures of the course are given in English.
After the successful completion of the course students will be able to: understand the diversity of approaches towards representing anthropological topics through film; discuss the issues of portraying other cultures in cinema; identify the topics of orientalism, power relations or intercultural exchange as portrayed in cinema and ethnographic documentary films; evaluate various concepts and methods of filmmaking from the point of view of cultural anthropology.
|
|
Prerequisites
|
unspecified
|
|
Assessment methods and criteria
|
Essay, Student performance, Seminar Work
Class attendance, final essay, readings.
|
|
Recommended literature
|
-
Grimshaw, A. (2001). The Ethnographer's Eye. Ways of Seeing in Anthropology. Cambridge.
-
Heider, K.H.; Blakely, P.A.R.; Blakely, T.D. (2007). Seeing Anthropology: Cultural Anthropology through Film. Boston.
-
Hockings, E. (1975). Principles of Visual Anthropology. New York.
|