Course: Cultural Anthropology 1

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Course title Cultural Anthropology 1
Course code PCH/BKA1
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminary
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory-optional, Optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Kupka Martin, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
Analysis particular conceptions of culture. Ideological sources of social and cultural anthropology. Typology of conceive culture. The methods studies of culture in anthropology. The Evolutionistic conception of culture. The Difuzionistic conception of culture. The Configuracionism in antropology. The Personality and culture. The Functionalist and The Structurally - functionalist anthropology. The Structurally - functionalist anthropology of Lévi Strauss. The Neoevolutionistic antropology. The Sociobiological perspective. The Cultural environmentalism. The Cultural materialism. The Cognitive anthropology. The Symbolic anthropology. The Present social and cultural anthropology.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture, Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming)
  • Semestral Work - 13 hours per semester
  • Preparation for the Course Credit - 12 hours per semester
  • Attendace - 25 hours per semester
  • Preparation for the Exam - 25 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
The purpose of this training is introduce of students with basic conception study of the culture. The culture is special level of reality, superbiological instrument of adaptation and specific configuration of attributes. Further is adverted on close relations between cultural anthropology and psychology, with regard to the process of ontogenetic evolution.
The students obtain basic findings of the cultural typology. They get attainments about relation between biological and cultural determination of ontogenetic evolution of human being. They get basic attainments about the field research and cultural relativism and emic description of culture.
Prerequisites
The relation to basic education of 1. grade on department of psychology.

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral exam, Seminar Work

Participation in lectures and seminars. The seminar work on choice subject. Examination.
Recommended literature
  • Benedictová, R.:. Kulturní vzorce, Praha 1999..
  • Lévi-Strauss, C. (2007). Strukturální antropolgie dvě. Praha: Argo.
  • Lévi-Strauss, C. (2006). Strukturální antropologie. Praha: Argo.
  • Murphy R. F. (1998). Úvod do kulturní a sociální antropologie. Praha Slon.
  • Soukup, V. (1996). Dějiny sociální a kulturní antropologie. Praha.
  • Soukup, V. (2000). Přehled antropologických teorií kultury.. Praha.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Psychology (2019) Category: Psychology courses 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Italian Language and Culture (2020) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: Winter