FPF:UHVM0032 Cultural antropology - Course Information
UHVM0032 Cultural antropology
Faculty of Philosophy and Science in OpavaSummer 2017
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/0/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Igor Zmeták, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- Mgr. Igor Zmeták, Ph.D.
Institute of Historical Sciences – Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava - Prerequisites
- Emphasis on reading key texts of cultural anthropologists and analyze their influence in the field of historiography.
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Cultural History (programme FPF, B7105 HiVe)
- Course objectives
- Students will become familiar with the main features, methods, procedures, and concepts of cultural anthropology as the science of perception and the formation of cultural otherness. Attention will be paid, for example, the formation of ethnic, gender or religious alterity, as well as issues of economic and visual anthropology. Emphasis will be placed on reading key texts of cultural anthropologists and analyze their influence in the field of historiography.
- Syllabus
- 1. Culture and man
2. The nature and education
3. Culture and language
4. Human nature and socialization
5. Social systems, status and role, gender role
6. Marriage and family
7. Kinship systems
8. Ecology and economy and economic anthropology
9. Order, authority, prestige, power, social class, caste, country
10. Aninismus, animatismus, sacred and profane, magic, shamanism, ritual, and religion
11. Cultural History
- 1. Culture and man
- Literature
- recommended literature
- V. Soukup. Dějiny sociální a kulturní antropologie. Praha 1996. info
- Nešpor, Z. ? Horský, J. Historická antropologie? Metodické problémy a paradoxy na pomezí dějepisectví, sociologie a sociální antropologie. Kuděj 1/ 2004, s. 61- 81. info
- Bowie, F. Antropologie náboženství. Praha, 2008. info
- ERIKSEN, THOMA H. Sociální a kulturní antropologie: Příbuzenství, národnostní příslušnost, rituál. Praha: Portál, 2008. info
- Nünnig, A. - Nünnig, V. Konzepte der Kulturwissenshaften. Stuttgart, 2003. info
- J. Sokol. Filosofická antropologie: člověk jako osoba. Praha, 2002. info
- R. F. Murphy. Úvod do kulturní a sociální antropologie. Praha, 1999. info
- Kottack, C.P. Anthropology, The Exploration of Human Diversity. New York, 1991. info
- Teaching methods
- Lecturing
- Assessment methods
- Written test
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
- Teacher's information
- 90% attendance, active participation
Knowledge of key concepts and problems (written test)
- Enrolment Statistics (Summer 2017, recent)
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