Course: Cultural and Social Anthropology

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Course title Cultural and Social Anthropology
Course code KAZ/PNKS@
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminary
Level of course Master
Year of study 2
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 1
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Cichá Martina, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
Introduction to cultural and social anthropology, basic terminology, the concept of integral anthropology, fundamental disciplines and subdisciplines of integral socio-cultural anthropology; methods of cultural and social anthropology, field research; a brief history of anthropology, examples of crucial personalities and periods of cultural and social anthropology; fundamental theories of anthropology; social organizations and systems; family and kinship; "race", ethnicity, nation and nationality, formation of identity; basics of ethnology and ethnography; traditional and modern rituals; mythology, magic, and religion in the anthropologic context; body anthropology.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture, Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook), Projection (static, dynamic)
  • Attendace - 26 hours per semester
  • Semestral Work - 14 hours per semester
  • Homework for Teaching - 4 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
After passing the course, students should be able to: - Explain the basic terminology of social and cultural anthropology, - Describe and interpret the main theories of anthropology and the basic methodological processes, distinctive for cultural and social anthropology, - Understand the phenomenon of cultural diversity and ethnocentrism; present arguments in favor of cultural relativism, - Present the knowledge of social interactions in everyday life; - Explain the terms conformity and nonconforming behavior; - describe and interpret (from the perspective of social and cultural anthropology) the basic social organizations and systems; - Apply social and cultural anthropology knowledge in particular model situations/examples based on human's real life as a member of society.
After passing the course, students should be able to: - Explain the basic terminology of social and cultural anthropology, - Describe and interpret the main theories of anthropology and the basic methodological processes, distinctive for cultural and social anthropology, - Understand the phenomenon of cultural diversity and ethnocentrism; present arguments in favor of cultural relativism, - Present the knowledge of social interactions in everyday life; - Explain the terms conformity and nonconforming behavior; - describe and interpret (from the perspective of social and cultural anthropology) the basic social organizations and systems; - Apply social and cultural anthropology knowledge in particular model situations/examples based on human's real life as a member of society.
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Essay, Student performance

A presence in the seminars is recommended. Requirements for a colloquium: choice of 1.) a suitable book concerning the particular topic of social/cultural anthropology - with student's analysis (minimum of 2 pages A4).; 2) a suitable video concerning the particular topic of social/cultural anthropology with student's analysis (minimum of 1 page A4) - precisely made bibliographic references. Student's defence.
Recommended literature
  • BOWIE, F. Antropologie náboženství. Praha: Portál, 2008. ISBN 978-80-7367-378-9..
  • BUDIL, I. T. Mýtus, jazyk a kulturní antropologie. Praha: Triton, 2003. ISBN 80-7254-321-0..
  • CICHÁ, M. a kol. Integrální antropologie. Praha: Triton, 2014. ISBN 978-80-7387-816-0..
  • COPANS, J. Základy antropologie a etnologie. Praha: Portál, 2001. ISBN 8071783854..
  • ERIKSEN, T. H. Antropologie multikulturních společností: rozumět identitě. Praha: Triton, 2007. ISBN 9788072549252..
  • ERIKSEN, T. H. Sociální a kulturní antropologie: příbuzenství, národnostní příslušnost, rituál. Praha: Portál, 2008. ISBN 978-80-7367-465-6..
  • GEERTZ, C. Interpretace kultur. Praha: Slon, 2000. ISBN 80-85850-89-3..
  • KAJANOVÁ, A. Vybrané kapitoly ze sociální a kulturní antropologie. České Budějovice: Jihočeská univerzita, 2011. ISBN 978-80-7394-301-1..
  • LÉVI-STRAUSS, C., OLENDER, M., FULKA, J. Antropologie a problémy moderního světa. Praha: Univerzita Karlova, 2012. ISBN 978-80-246-2098-5..
  • MALINA, J. a kol. Člověk-auto-encyklopedie [on-line] 2013. Dostupné na www: http://is.muni.cz/do/sci/UAntrBiol/el/clovek-auto/index.html..
  • MALINA, J. a kol. Encyklopedie antropologie [on-line] 2013. Dostupné na www: http://is.muni.cz/do/sci/UAntrBiol/el/encyklopedie/index.html..
  • MALINA, J. a kol. Panoráma antropologie [on-line] 2013. Dostupné na www: http://is.muni.cz/do/1499/el/estud/prif/js10/panorama/web/moduly.html..
  • Mezinárodní odborné časopisy on-line, např. Social Anthropology; Forum for Anthropology and Culture..
  • SKARUPSKÁ, H. Úvod do kulturní a sociální antropologie. Studijní opora. Olomouc: UP, 2006. ISBN 80-244-1509-7..
  • SOUKUP, M. Kultura: biokulturologická perspektiva. Červený Kostelec: Pavel Mervart, 2011. ISBN 978-80-87378-96-0..
  • SOUKUP, M., RYCHLÍK, M. Tělo: čichat, česat, hmatat, propichovat, řezat. Červený Kostelec: Pavel Mervart, 2014. ISBN 978-80-7465-108-3..
  • SOUKUP, V. Antropologie: teorie člověka a kultury. Praha: Portál, 2011. ISBN 978-80-7367-432-8..
  • SOUKUP, V. Dějiny antropologie: (encyklopedický přehled dějin fyzické antropologie, paleoantropologie, sociální a kulturní antropologie). Praha: Karolinum, 2004. ISBN 8024603373..
  • Tuzemské odborné časopisy on-line, např. Antropologia integra; Česká antropologie, Antropowebzin..


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