PdF:SZ6063 Antropology of Human Sexuality - Course Information

SZ6063 Antropology of Human Sexuality

Extent and Intensity

1/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).

Teacher(s)

Mgr. Martina Jančová, Ph.D. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

Mgr. Martina Jančová, Ph.D.
Department of Biology – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Mgr. Martina Jančová, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Biology – Faculty of Education

Timetable

Tue 20. 4. 13:00–14:50 kancelář vyučujícího, Tue 27. 4. 13:00–14:50 kancelář vyučujícího, Tue 4. 5. 13:00–14:50 kancelář vyučujícího, Tue 11. 5. 13:00–14:50 kancelář vyučujícího, Tue 18. 5. 13:00–14:50 kancelář vyučujícího

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is offered to students of any study field.

Course objectives

Students: explain the sexual dimorphism in the human appearance and behavior, understand the patterns of sexual and erotic behavior, rituals, and institutions, are able to discuss the concepts of behavior and respect for those confines and peculiarity during encounters between different cultures in today's globalizing world.

Learning outcomes

Student: - uses correct professional anthropological terminology - defines the genetic, gonadal, genital, somatic, psychosocial and matrix sex in humans and lists gender mismatch disorders at these levels. - state the main stages of postnatal gender development and the nature of physical sexual dimorphism as well as differences in sexual strategies and behavior - explain on selected examples of givens and peculiarities in sexual and erotic behavior according to cultural affiliation, religion or age and gender applied mainly to the relations of Euro-American civilization to other civilizations and cultures.

Syllabus

• 1.-2. The biology of sexuality – phylogeny and ontogeny of human sexual behavior, sexual development. 3. Sexual behavior – identification, orientation, emotions, sexual behaviour in childhood and adolescence, sexual hormones and sexuality. 4. Human nature of cultural and anthropological point of view. 5. The cultural definition of masculinity and femininity, the third gender 6. Sexual codes, the cultural teories of reproduction. 7. Marriage-definition, forms, sexuality. 8. The incestuous taboo and the rules of selection of partners. 9. Monogamy, polygamy, polyandry. 10. Jealousy, infidelity, war of sperm – a strategy of man, women strategy. 11. Family – the core family and other forms, characteristics, advantages, disadvantages, extension. 12. The diversity of the culture and customs, the genitals – male and female circumcision, castration, hemicastration, piercing, hair removal...

Literature

recommended literature
• LEHMILLER, Justin J. The psychology of human sexuality. Second edition. Hoboken: Wiley Blackwell, 2018, xxix, 442. ISBN 9781119164715. info
• BILDER, Glenda. Human biological aging : from macromolecules to organ systems. Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell, 2016, ix, 330. ISBN 9781118967027. info
• VRHEL, František and Jaroslav MALINA. Panoráma biologické a sociokulturní antropologie 4: Antropologie sexuality: Sociokulturní hledisko. Editor: Jaroslav Malina. Brno (CZ): Nadace Universitas Masarykiana v Brně, nakladatelství a vydavatelství Nauma v Brně, 2002, 80 pp. Modulové učební texty pro studenty antropologie. ISBN 80-210-2821-1. info
• ZVĚŘINA, Jaroslav and Jaroslav MALINA. Panoráma biologické a sociokulturní antropologie 5: Sexuologie pro antropology (Panorama of biological and sociocultural anthropology 5: Sexuology for anthropologists). Editor: Jaroslav Malina. Brno (CZ): Nadace Universitas Masarykiana v Brně, nakladatelství a vydavatelství Nauma v Brně, 2002, 68 pp. Modulové učební texty pro studenty antropologie. ISBN 80-210-2822-X. info
• SKUPNIK, Jaroslav and Jaroslav MALINA. Panoráma biologické a sociokulturní antropologie 7: Manželství a sexualita z antropologické perspektivy. Editor: Jaroslav Malina. Brno (CZ): Nadace Universitas Masarykiana v Brně, nakladatelství a vydavatelství Nauma v Brně, 2002, 76 pp. Modulové učební texty pro studenty antropologie. ISBN 80-210-2840-8. info
• ZVĚŘINA, Jaroslav. Lékařská sexuologie. Praha: Nakladatelství odborné literatury H&H, 1991, 233 s. ISBN 8085467046. info

not specified
• • BAKER, Robin (2005). Válka spermií. Jota. 296 s. ISBN 80-7217-363-4
• • PLZÁK, Miroslav (2011). Taktika a strategie v lásce. Motto, 232 s. ISBN 978-80-7246-565-1
• • Bishop, Clifford Osthelder, Xenia, ed. (2001): Sexualia: From Prehistory to Cyberspace. Köln am Rhein: Könemann Verlagsgesellschaft mbH.
• • MORRIS, Desmond (1997)). Intimate Behavior: A Zoologist's Classic Study of Human Intimacy. Kodansha Globe. 393 s. ISBN: 3669363639
• VANČATA, Václav, Marina VANČATOVÁ and Jaroslav MALINA. Panoráma biologické a sociokulturní antropologie 10: Sexualita primátů. Editor: Jaroslav Malina. Brno (CZ): Nadace Universitas Masarykiana v Brně, nakladatelství a vydavatelství Nauma v Brně, 2002, 92 pp. Modulové učební texty pro studenty antropologie. ISBN 80-210-2865-3. info
• MORRIS, Desmond. Lidský živočich : osobní pohled na lidský druh. Vyd. 1. V Praze: Euromedia Group, 1997, 223 s. ISBN 8071765295. info

Teaching methods

lectures, class discussion, reading

Assessment methods

collective oral discussion

Language of instruction

Czech

Follow-Up Courses

• Bi2BP_ALS Biological rootage of human sexuality

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

Study Materials

Teacher's information

In the spring 2021 semester, the course will be taught as follows: 1) study texts will be inserted in the study materials, which, together with the recommended literature, will be the basis for the acquisition of knowledge necessary for the successful completion of the course. 2) completion of the course will take place through three online tests, which will be introduced in the IS during April 2021, so that students of state students have the opportunity to complete the course in the required time. The condition is the successful completion of three final online tests to verify the studied knowledge.

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