SAN105 Ethnography and Fieldwork

Faculty of Social Studies
Spring 2014
Extent and Intensity
2/2. 9 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Michal Nekorjak, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Jana Obrovská (lecturer)
Mgr. Jana Obrovská, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Zuzana Sekeráková Búriková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. Mgr. et Mgr. Adéla Souralová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Eva Šlesingerová, Ph.D.
Department of Sociology – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: doc. Mgr. et Mgr. Adéla Souralová, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Sociology – Faculty of Social Studies
Timetable
Thu 8:00–9:30 exP21, Thu 11:30–13:00 U35, Thu 13:30–15:00 U35
  • Timetable of Seminar Groups:
SAN105/1: No timetable has been entered into IS. M. Nekorjak, Z. Sekeráková Búriková, A. Souralová
SAN105/2: No timetable has been entered into IS. M. Nekorjak, Z. Sekeráková Búriková, A. Souralová
Prerequisites (in Czech)
SAN101 Soc. Anthropology-lectures
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 54 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/54, only registered: 0/54, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/54
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
The main objectives of the course are the following:
informing about fieldwork and about ethnographic genre;
acquaintining students with the classical ethnographic texts;
giving the students anthropological terminology of ethnographic research;and
learning thinking in logic of ethnographic research.
Syllabus
  • I. Ethnography as translation of a picture to the text
  • II. Relevance of ethnography. Participated observation vs. observed participation. Plurality of ethnographies (positivism, phenomenology, praxeology)
  • III. Person and method, research reflexivity. Ethnography as a genre
  • IV. Issue and method
  • V. Starting fieldwork: solitude of an ethnographer
  • VI. Record and utterance. Fieldnotes, data presentations, anonymization
  • VII. Generalization of knowledge. How many interview we should make?
  • VIII. To became the Other. Question of translation
  • IX. Ethnogreaphy in a research lab. Actors-network theory
  • X. Crizis of ethnographic reprezentation: performance texts, new journalism, Stand Point Epistemologies
  • XI. Ethnographer and "his/her" people: hierarchy and power asymmetry. Between friendship and objectivity. Research ethic
Literature
  • Fieldwork dilemmas : anthropologists in postsocialist states. Edited by Hermine G. De Soto - Nora Dudwick. Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 2000, xi, 250. ISBN 0299163741. info
  • Současná filosofie sociálních věd :multikulturní přístup. Edited by Brian Fay - Jana Ogrocká. 1. vyd. Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství, 2002, 324 s. ISBN 80-86429-10-5. info
  • HAMMERSLEY, Martyn and Paul ATKINSON. Ethnography : principles in practice. 3rd ed. London: Routledge, 2007, xi, 275. ISBN 9780415396042. info
  • GEERTZ, Clifford. Works and lives : the anthropology as author. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988, vi, 157. ISBN 0804717478. info
  • RABINOW, Paul. Reflections on fieldwork in Morocco. Edited by Pierre Bourdieu - Robert Neelly Bellah. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977, xiii, 170. ISBN 0520035291. info
Teaching methods
Lectures, reading, class discussion
Assessment methods
3 written essys, oral exam, colloquium
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Autumn 2015, Spring 2017.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2014, recent)
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