FF:ETBA11 Selec. Issues in Mater. Cult. - Course Information
ETBA11 Selected Issues in Material Culture
Faculty of ArtsAutumn 2008
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. PhDr. Miroslav Válka, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- doc. PhDr. Miroslav Válka, Ph.D.
Department of European Ethnology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Martina Maradová - Timetable
- Wed 8:20–9:55 J31
- Prerequisites (in Czech)
- ETBA02 Introduction to Ethnology || ETBA04 History of Ethnology
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Course objectives
- The course's main objective is to provide an insight into issues related to traditional agriculture as the basic form of employment and the principal way of getting one's livelihood in pre-industrial society. Students will learn about one of the most important areas of ethnographic research on the basis of ethnographic material supplemented with findings from other disciplines.
- Syllabus
- Agriculture as the basic form of employment and the principal way of getting one's livelihood.
- Ethnographic research supplemented with findings from other disciplines.
- Types of land reclaiming and land tilling systems.
- Tilling equipment from the historical development point of view, ploughing equipment typology.
- Growing of cereals and industrial crops (flex, hemp, row crops).
- Viticulture and wine-making: traditional technologies, instruments used (knives, presses), service structures (cellars, press houses).
- Cattle-growing issues with an emphasis on types of yoking, their typology in the European setting.
- Mountain sheep breeding (Alpine farming).
- Literature
- MOSZYŃSKI, Kazimierz. Kultura ludowa Słowian. Wyd. 2. Warszawa: Książka i Wiedza, 1967. info
- Československá vlastivěda III. Lidová kultura. Praha, 1986, p. 55-103. info
- BERANOVÁ, Magdalena. Zemědělství starých Slovanů. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 1980, 395 s. URL info
- FROLEC, Václav. Jihomoravské vinohradnictví : [tradice a současnost]. 2. přeprac. vyd. Brno: Blok, 1984, 218 s. info
- VONDRUŠKA, Vlastimil. Slovník starého zemědělského nářadí, nástrojů a strojů : (1750-1914). Roztoky u Prahy: Středočeské muzeum, 1989, 247 s. info
- SLAVKOVSKÝ, Peter. Agrárna kultúra Slovenska : premeny v čase. 1. vyd. Bratislava: Veda, vydavateľstvo Slovenskej akadémie vied, 2002, 237 s. ISBN 8022407178. info
- BROUČEK, Stanislav and Richard JEŘÁBEK. Lidová kultura. Národopisná encyklopedie Čech, Moravy a Slezska. Biografická část. (Folk culture.). Praha: Mladá fronta, 2007, 284 pp. ISBN 978-80-204-1711-4. info
- Assessment methods
- lectures, reading, written examination
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Follow-Up Courses
- Further Comments
- The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2008, recent)
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