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Lecturer(s)
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Czarnecki Szczepan Pavel, Mgr.
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Šotola Jaroslav, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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1. Cultural ecology - adaptation of companies to the natural environment. 2. Evolutionist perspective of political anthropology: acephalic societies, tribes, chiefship, state. 3. Economic anthropology - dispute between formalists and substantivists, criticism of homo economicus. 4. Reciprocity and redistribution, kula phenomenon; money and exchange systems. 5. Main approaches in political anthropology: structural functionalism, process and actor approaches. 6. Anthropological conceptualization of power. 7. Conflict and resistance. 8. Capitalism and its characteristics from the perspective of economic anthropology. 9. Theory of the world system, dependency theory. 10. Post-development studies. 11. Globalization. 12. Political and economic aspects of post-socialism.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Lecture, Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming)
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Learning outcomes
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The course is aimed at introducing basic topics in political and economic anthropology - both in the contemporary and historical perspective of the field. First, the relationship of cultural anthropology to the economic and political systems of non-European societies will be explained on the basis of well-known 20th century research. Subsequently, conceptual frameworks will be presented to grasp the power and exchange of economic goods in anthropology. Emphasis will also be placed on presenting the potential of anthropology to describe and explain current phenomena and processes in the political and economic sphere - ie in relation to the issue of globalization and social inequalities. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to gain an anthropological view of the study of political and economic aspects of social reality; use the conceptualization of power and exchange to grasp current processes in the local and global framework; to discuss the link between economic and political phenomena with the broader framework of the social structure of societies.
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Prerequisites
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unspecified
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Oral exam
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Recommended literature
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ERIKSEN, T. H. (2008). Sociální a kulturní antropologie. Praha : Portál.
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Hahn, Ch., Hart, K. Economic Anthropology. History, Ethnography, Critique. Cambridge; Malden: Polity, 2011.
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LEWELLEN, Ted. C. Political Anthropology. An Introduction. Westport: Praeger, 2003..
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