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Lecturer(s)
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Havelka Rudolf, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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An outline of the development of the "animistic" type of religiosity in prehistoric times; Constitutive phenomena of the "animistic" type of religiosity: specific way of perception of the environment and the principle of reciprocity; spiritual status of animals; typical forms of postulated supernatural agents; the role and importance of religious specialists (sacrificial, shaman); typology and importance of sacred places; principles and forms of ritual behavior; Case studies of religious systems of particular ethnic groups presented in various methodological frameworks of leading researchers: Siberia, traditional ethnographic approaches (Xenofontov, Mitus, Lehtisalo, Karjalainen, Pantikäinen) and modern cultural anthropological approaches (Willerslev, Vitebsky, Leete, Golovnev, Brandišauskas); North America, the beginnings of ethnographic studies (Steward, Boas) and the move towards cultural and ecological focus (Nelson, Ingold, Fienup-Riordan, Tanner); The issue of religion and cultural identity of autochthonous nations of circumpolar regions.
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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 introduction to the course will outline the prehistoric and protohistorical development of the "animistic" type of religiosity. The next part of the course analyzes the constitutive phenomena typical of the religious systems of hunting-gathering and pastoral autochthonous inhabitants of the northern hemisphere. The second half of the course is devoted to partial case studies of given cultural spheres, presented on the basis of theoretical and methodological approaches of leading ethnographers, cultural anthropologists and religionists. At the end of the course students should be made familiar with the main principles of the "animistic" type of religiosity, they will have specific knowledge from the environment of several selected ethnicities and at the same time they will be acquainted with the history and current state of research in this area. theoretical methodological recommendations for possible own field research.
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Prerequisites
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unspecified
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Assessment methods and criteria
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unspecified
Credit test, seminar paper;
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Recommended literature
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Berkes, F. (1999). Sacred Ecology. Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Resource Management.. Philadelphia: Taylor and Francis.
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Brandišauskas, D. (2019). Leaving footprints in the taiga: luck, spirits and ambivalce among among the Siberian Orochen Reindeer Herders and Hunters.. Oxford: Berghahn Press.
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Ellen, R. (1982). Environment, Subsistence and System: The Ecology of Small-Scale Social Formations.. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Hultkrantz, A.:. (1998). Domorodá náboženství Severní Ameriky: Síla vizí a plodnosti.. Praha: Prostor.
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