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Lecturer(s)
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Mildnerová Kateřina, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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Content of lectures: 1. Anthropology of art - definition of discipline, terms, anthropological definitions of art 2. Anthropology of art - anthropological theories of art up to 1960s evolutionism, diffusionism, functionalism, structuralism (C. Lévi-Strauss), F. Boas and cultural relativism 3. Anthropology of art - anthropological theories of art since the 1960s symbolic anthropology, ethnoesthetics, poststructuralism, process relativism - M. Svašek, R. Barthes, Alfred Gell, J. Fabian, D. Miller and others. 4. Art and trade Collecting, commodification of art, concept of so-called art worlds, tourist art (N. Graburn, Ch. Steiner etc.) 5. Methodology of art production, formal, iconographic and semiotic method 6. Museology and collecting cabinet collections, origin of national museums and ethnographic museums, exhibition policy, collecting development, cultural repatriation 7. Masks and masking - typology and theory M. M. Bachtin, A. Lommel, D. Napier, H. Pernet, J. Emight 8. Masks - examples from sub-Saharan Africa Making masks, their symbolic, social meaning and function - West Africa 9. Figurative Art I. typology, function, importance on examples of African woodcarvings 10. Figurative art II. iconic art - fetish figures, ancestral guard figures, divination aids. 11. Textiles and body art Production and types of fabrics - clothes (kente, adinkra, kanga etc.), scarification, body painting, jewelry and hairstyles 12. Blacksmithing and ironmongery Methods of metal processing, metalworking in Ife and Benin, gold weights and jewelry from Ghana, blacksmithing in West Africa.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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unspecified
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Learning outcomes
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The course introduces the basic concepts of anthropology of art, the development of this discipline, the main representatives and their research in the field of art of non-European ethnicities. The first, theoretical part of lectures will focus on specific problems of anthropology of art - eg historical changes of conceptualization of "primitive art" across history of the antrhropology, problems of commodification and aesthetization of art, collecting and museums development, cultural repatriation etc. practical use of formal, iconographic and semiotic methods for the needs of anthropology of art. The second part of the course will focus on the most typical manifestations of material culture in sub-Saharan Africa.
knowledge of anthropology of art usable for theoretical and practical purposes - knowledge of methodology, methods of analysis of artistic objects
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Prerequisites
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Students are obliged to attend lectures.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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unspecified
active participation in lectures, written test
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Recommended literature
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Berkeley. University of California Press.
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Boas, F. Primitive art. Harvard University Press, 1928.
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Clifford, J. The Predicament of culture (chapter 9 - On collecting art and culture). Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988.
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Čapek, Josef:. Umění přírodních národů. Fr. Borový, Liberec 1938..
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Erban, V. Maska a tvář. Praha: Malá Skála, 2010.
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Gell, A. Art and Agency: An Anthropological Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
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Graburn, N. H. H. Ethnic and Tourist Arts: Cultural Expressions from the Fourth World, 1979.
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Jiroušková, J. Černá Afrika. Dějiny odívání. Praha: Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, 2003.
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Kandert, Josef:. Afrika. Svoboda a Mladá fronta, Praha 1984..
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Laude, Jean:. Umění černého světadílu, Praha - Odeon 1973.
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Layton, Robert:. The Anthropology of Art. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1991..
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Lévi-Strauss, C. Cesta Masek. Praha: Dauphin, 1996.
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Mildnerová, K. Pití fetišů. Náboženství a umění vodun v Beninu. Malvern, Praha 2012.
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Morphy, Howard and Morgan Perkins (eds). The Anthropology of Art: A Reader. Blackwell 2006..
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Půtová, B., Soukup, V., Nevadomski, J. Umění a kultura království Benin. Praha: Kosmas, 2016.
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Rychlík, Martin. Tetování, skarifikace a jiné zdobení těla. NLN, Praha 2005 [úvody kapitol.].
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Svašek, M. Anthropology, art and cultural production. London: Pluto Press, 2007.
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