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Lecturer(s)
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Horáková Hana, doc. PaedDr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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1) Introduction to the course: the predicament of culture in social sciences; culturalist discourse and absolutisation of culture; critique of the "clash of cultures" concept; inflation of culture 2) Culture in singular: evolutionist theory of culture. E.B. Tylor. 3) Culture in plural: Cultural relativism. American historicism. Franz Boas 4)Culture and personality. Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson 5) Configurationism: Ruth Benedict, Alfred Kroeber 6) Functionalism: Bronislaw Malinowski. Scientific theory of culture. 7) Structural anthropology: Lévi Strauss 8) Phenomenal and ideational order: cultural materialism vs. symbolic and cognitive anthropology. Marshall Sahlins, Clifford Geertz. 9) Postmodernism about culture. Culture as text. 10) Ontological turn, critical and reflexive anthropology. 11) Discreditation of the concept of culture. New terms and concepts. New academic disciplines based on the culture as a collective identity. 12) The latest approaches to culture: writing against culture; defense of culture
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook), Methods of Written Work
- Homework for Teaching
- 1 hour per semester
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Learning outcomes
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The aim of the course is to provide the students an outline of the key historical milestones in the anthropological thought, from the mid-19 century until the present days, through the key concept, that is culture.
The course introduces history of anthropological thought, as it was developed mostly in Euro-American cultural area from the second half of 19th century, until today. The integrative approach will be applied, relying on combining the history of events and thoughts together with examples of anthropological issues, great figures as main founders of different anthropological schools etc. This approach is ideally allowing to differentiate between the very history of cultural anthropology and an overview of anthropological theories, which may possibly go beyond the very history. More detailed overview of anthropological thinking will be rooted in the context of main reversals in history of anthropological history (simplification of evolutionist and diffusionist attitudes - historical particularism - culture as a system - interpretative approaches etc.).
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Prerequisites
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The prerequisite to master this course is to get to know the basics of cultural anthropology at the bachelor study level.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Written exam, Student performance, Written exam
A continuous study of the basic and recommended literature. Final consolidation of the course: a written text with open question that test the knowledge from the lectures and the basic literature.
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Recommended literature
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APPADURAI, A. (1996). Modernity at Large. Cultural Dimensions of Globalization. University of Minnesota Press.
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BARNARD, Alan:. History and Theory in Anthropology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2000..
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BAYART, Jean ?François. (2005). The Illusion of Cultural Identity. Hurst and Company.
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BOGGS, James P. (2004). The Culture Concept as Theory, in Context. Current Anthropology 45(2): 187 ? 209.
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BONNEL, Victoria E. and Lynn HUNT. (1999). Beyond the Cultural Turn. University of California Press.
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BOROFSKY, Robert, BARTH, Fredrik and Richard SHWEDER. (2001). WHEN: A Conversation about Culture. American Anthropologist 103(2): 432-43.
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CLIFFORD, J. a G. E. MARCUS. (1986). Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography. University of California Press.
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ERICSON, Paul & MURPHY, Liam:. A History of Anthropological Theory. North York: University of Toronto Press, 2013..
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ERIKSEN, Thomas Hylland. Antropologie multikulturních společností: rozumět identitě. Praha: Triton, 2007..
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GEERTZ, Clifford:. Interpretace kultur: vybrané eseje. Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství, 2000..
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HARRIS, Marvin. (1999). Theories of Culture in Postmodern Times. Altamira.
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HORÁKOVÁ, Hana. (2012). Kultura jako všelék. Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství.
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HUNTINGTON, Samuel P. Střet civilizací: boj kultur a proměna světového řádu. Vyd. 1. Praha: Rybka Publishers, 2001. 447 s. ISBN 80-86182-49-5..
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CHABAL, Patrick and Jean-Pascal DALOZ. (2006). Culture Troubles: Politics and the Interpretation of Meaning. London.
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KUKLICK, Henrika (ed.):. A New History of Anthropology. London: Blackwell 2007..
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KUPER, Alan. (1999). Culture: The Anthropologists´ Account. Harvard University Press.
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LAWLESS, Robert. (1996). Co je to kultura. Olomouc: Votobia.
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ORTNER, Sherry. (1999). The Fate of ?Culture?: Geertz and Beyond. University of California Press.
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PINXTEN, Rik, VERSTRAETE, Ghislain and Chia LONGMAN. (2004). Culture and Politics: Identity and Conflict in a Multicultural World. Berghahn.
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SOUKUP, Martin:. Kultura. Červený Kostelec: Pavel Mervart 2011..
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SOUKUP, Václav. Antropologie: teorie člověka a kultury. Praha: Portál, 2011..
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Soukup, Václav. Přehled antropologických teorií kultury. Praha 2000.
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STOCKING, George:. After Tylor. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press 1995..
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