Course: Cultural and Social Anthropology

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Course title Cultural and Social Anthropology
Course code KAZ/KSAQ
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminar
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Zemánek Petr, Mgr. Ph.D.
  • Cichá Martina, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
- Introduction to Cultural and Social Anthropology; Basic Terminology; - Concept of Integral Anthropology; Basic Disciplines and Sub-disciplines of Integral Anthropology; - Methods of Cultural and Social Anthropology, Field Research; - Brief History of Anthropology, Examples of Major Figures and Areas in Cultural and Social Anthropology; - Basic Anthropological Theories; - Social Organization and Systems, Economic and Political Systems; - "Race", Ethnicity, Nation and Nationality; - Family and Kinship; - Religion and Ritual; - Anthropology of the Body.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture, Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook), Methods of Written Work, Projection (static, dynamic)
  • Preparation for the Exam - 16 hours per semester
  • Attendace - 26 hours per semester
  • Homework for Teaching - 8 hours per semester
  • Semestral Work - 10 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
The goal is to introduce students to the basics of cultural and social anthropology as a holistic scientific discipline of man, culture and society, exploring the origin, evolution, structure and functioning of different socio-cultural systems in time and space. For social anthropology in the spirit of the British anthropological tradition, the central concept of the company. Emphasis is placed on the study of values, institutions and habits that are formed in the context of social structure. For cultural anthropology, which has an American tradition is the central concept of culture, in terms of specific human negenetických phenomena, manifested in the artifacts, norms, regulative and ideas shared by some members of society. Students should, of course you learn the basic terminology of social and cultural anthropology, to familiarize themselves with the major anthropological theories and basic methodological procedures for the inherent cultural and social anthropology. They should understand the fact of cultural diversity and ethnocentrism, learn to argue in favor of cultural relativism, and in particular the practical ability to accept cultural pluralism.
Student: - knows the position of social and cultural anthropology in the system of anthropological sciences; - knows the basic terminology and content of social anthropology; - knows the basic terminology and content of cultural anthropology; - can name and explain the main anthropological theories; - displays the knowledge the basic methodological procedures used in social and cultural anthropology; - is able to eliminate ethnocentric attitudes in favour of culturally relativistic approaches; - displays knowledge of social and cultural anthropology and can apply those in work of a social pedagogue.
Prerequisites
Works with PC, internet connection.

Assessment methods and criteria
Student performance, Dialog, Seminar Work

Active participation in the seminars, the written seminar work on a selected topic from social and cultural anthropology (with citation of at least one foreign author - translation); the collokvium.
Recommended literature
  • Benedict, R., & Fialová, J. (1999). Kulturní vzorce. Praha: Argo.
  • Budil, I. T. (2003). Mýtus, jazyk a kulturní antropologie. Praha: Triton.
  • Cichá, M. (2014). Integrální antropologie. Praha: Triton.
  • Copans, J. (2001). Základy antropologie a etnologie. Praha: Portál.
  • Eriksen, T. H., & Antonínová, H. (2008). Sociální a kulturní antropologie: příbuzenství, národnostní příslušnost, rituál. Praha: Portál.
  • Lévi-Strauss, C., & Justoň, Z. (1996). Cesta masek. Liberec: Dauphin.
  • Lévi-Strauss, C., & Vilikovský, P. (1993). Mýtus a význam. Bratislava: Archa.
  • Lévi-Strauss, C., Olender, M., & Fulka, J. (2012). Antropologie a problémy moderního světa. Praha: Univerzita Karlova.
  • Malina, J. (2013). Anti-encyklopedie, anti-antropologie: [A-Ž]. Brno: Akademické nakladatelství CERM.
  • Pospíšil, L. J. (1991). Antropologie a věda. Olomouc: Rektorát Univerzity Palackého.
  • Skalník, P., & Šavelková, L. Okno do antropologie.
  • Sokol, J., & Pinc, Z. (2003). Antropologie a etika. Praha: Triton.
  • Soukup, M., & Rychlík, M. (2014). Tělo: čichat, česat, hmatat, propichovat, řezat. Červený Kostelec: Pavel Mervart.
  • Soukup, M. (2011). Kultura: biokulturologická perspektiva. Červený Kostelec: Pavel Mervart.
  • Soukup, M. (2009). Základy kulturní antropologie. Praha: Akademie veřejné správy.
  • Soukup, V. (2004). Dějiny antropologie: (encyklopedický přehled dějin fyzické antropologie, paleoantropologie, sociální a kulturní antropologie). Praha: Karolinum.


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