Course: History of Cultural Anthropology

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Course title History of Cultural Anthropology
Course code KSA/DKAK
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Šotola Jaroslav, Mgr. Ph.D.
  • Topinka Daniel, doc. PhDr. Ph.D.
  • Mildnerová Kateřina, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Birth and ideological sources of cultural anthropology 2. Classical evolutionism 3. Diffusionism 4. Functionalism 5. Structural functionalism 6. Neoevolutionism 7. Ecological anthropology and cultural materialism 8. Structural anthropology 9. Symbolic and interpretative anthropology 10. Critical and postmodern anthropology 11. Anthropology of the globalized world 12. Ontological turnover

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook)
Learning outcomes
The course will introduce the history of social and cultural anthropology as a science, as it has developed in the Euro-American cultural circle since the late 19th century.
The course is designed to provide students with a clear understanding of the evolutionary changes in anthropological thought to recent trends.
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Recommended literature
  • Barnard, A. (2000). History and Theory in Anthropology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press..
  • Barth, F. (Ed.). (2004). One Discipline, Four Ways. Cambride: Cambridge Univesity Press..
  • Harris, M. (2001). Rise of Anthropological Theory. Walnut Creek: Altamira..
  • Moore. (2012). Vision of Culture. Walnut Creek: Altamira..
  • Soukup, M. (2017). Britská sociální antropologie: vznik, vývoj a klíčové koncepce. Národopisná revue 27(3), s. 247?257..


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