ETBA11 Selected Issues in Material Culture

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2017
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. Daniel Drápala, Ph.D.
Department of European Ethnology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Martina Maradová
Supplier department: Department of European Ethnology – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Wed 9:10–10:45 J31
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
At the end of this lecture course students should be able to identify traditional agriculture as the basic form of employment and the principal way of getting one's livelihood in pre-industrial society. Students should be able to define individual forms and techniques of traditional agriculture.
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
    recommended literature
  • VÁLKA, Miroslav. Homo faber. Tradiční zemědělství a lidová výroba (Homo faber. Traditional farming and handmade production). 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2014, 153 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-7112-4. Digitální knihovna FF MU info
    not specified
  • 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
Teaching methods
lectures, readings
Assessment methods
written examination
Language of instruction
Czech
Follow-Up Courses
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Information about innovation of course.
This course has been innovated under the project "Faculty of Arts as Centre of Excellence in Education: Complex Innovation of Study Programmes and Fields at FF MU with Regard to the Requirements of the Knowledge Economy“ – Reg. No. CZ.1.07/2.2.00/28.0228, which is cofinanced by the European Social Fond and the national budget of the Czech Republic.

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The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, Autumn 2008, Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2020.
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