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Course: Social Anthropology of Africa

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Course title Social Anthropology of Africa
Course code KSA/SAA
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminar
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and 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)
  • Horáková Hana, doc. PaedDr. Ph.D.
Course content
unspecified

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture, Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook)
Learning outcomes
The course aims at studying Africa from the perspective of social anthropology. It introduces the BA students of cultural anthropology into the issues of contemporary subSaharan Africa through the lens of social anthropology. The lecture will present basic research outcomes from the works of the key social anthropologist working on Africa.

Prerequisites
Good knowledge of English.

Assessment methods and criteria
Essay

Seznam četby na semináře - pokračování: Mbembe, Achille. The new Africans. Between nativism and cosmopolitanism. In Antropologie moderní Afriky, s. 78-82, 2011. Niehaus, Isac A. With-hunting and Political Legitimacy. In Antropologie moderní Afriky, s. 95-107, 2011. Ranger, Terence. 2010. The Invention of Tradition in Colonial Africa. In Grinker, Roy R., Stephen C. Lubkemann, Christopher B. Steiner (eds.) Perspectives on Africa: A Reader in Culture, History and Representation. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, s. 450 - 461. Rudwick, Stephanie. 2020. Language, Class and Racial Mobility. In Horáková, H.; Rudwick, S.; Schmield, M. (eds.) Africa on the Move. Shifting Identities, Histories, Boundaries, s. 93-110. Berlin: LIT Verlag. Skalník, Petr. 2004. Politická kultura v postkoloniální Africe. In Skalník, P. ed. Politická kultura: antropologie, sociologie, politologie. Praha: Set Out, s. 181-222. Šváblová, Alžběta. 2016. Reconciliation in Liberia: Discourse, knowledge, consequences. In Horáková, H.; Werkman, K. (eds.) Knowledge Production in and on Africa, s. 83-104. Berlin: LIT Verlag. Vail, Leroy. 2007. Ethnicity in Southern African History. In Grinker, Roy R., Christopher B. Steiner (eds.) Perspectives on Africa: A Reader in Culture, History and Representation. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, s. 52-68. van Kessel, Ineke. 2009. Post-Apartheid South Africa: Class, Culture, the neo-patrimonial welfare state and African Nationalism. In Machalík, T., Mildnerová, K., Záhořík, J. (eds.) Viva Africa 2008. Plzeň: ADELA Publishing, s. 162-182. Werkman, Katerina. 2016. Is Africa exceptionally infectious? A comparison of Ebola and SARS coverage in the Czech media. In Horáková, H.; Werkman, K. (eds.) Knowledge Production in and on Africa, s. 151-176. Berlin: LIT Verlag.
Recommended literature
  • Geschiere, P. 1997. The Modernity of Witchcraft: Politics and the Occult in Postcolonial Africa. Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia..
  • Grinker, Roy R. and Christopher B. Steiner. (2008). Perspectives on Africa: A Reader in Culture, History and Representation. Oxford.
  • Horáková Hana. (2011). Antropologie moderní Afriky. Pardubice.


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Palacký University Olomouc, date of update: 01.05.2026 23:52. Data created for academic year 2026/2027