JSB352 Past and Present of Balkan's Ethnics

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2021
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Helena Bočková (lecturer)
PhDr. Helena Bočková (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Václav Štěpánek, Ph.D.
Department of Slavonic Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Pavel Pilch, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Slavonic Studies – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Mon 10:00–11:40 B2.33
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
there are 6 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
Course objectives
This ethno-culturally designed course is dealing with ethnics and regional ethno-cultural groups in Balkans. It provides their overview, religious and cultural and historical characteristic and points current issues with the aim in understanding cultural heritage forming their current ethno-cultural sovereignty. On selected examples it analyses processes of today’s revitalization of ethno-regional groups endangered by globalization, connected with post-modern ambitions to save cultural diversity. It looks at historic and current migrations, their influence on today’s difficult ethnic map of Balkans and ethno-cultural influence and consequences that can be seen mainly at the level of everyday life. It introduces students with ethnic and emic ranking attitude to the study of ethno-cultural situation. Course explains problems of ethnicity of culture, taking the difference between objectivistic and subjectivist interpretation into account. Three main ethnic theories and terminology are part of the lectures as well. This course has an e-learning support prepared.
Learning outcomes
Upon finishing the course students will be able to formulate basic postulates of the ethnic theory, to describe and interpret the ethnocultural issues of the Balkans from a position of the everyday life studies and in a context of current meanings and theories.
Syllabus
  • 1. Ethnogenesis of the Balkan nations – current issues, complexity of the topic. Basic terminology. Fields of study and sources. The origin of the ethnology as a humanity science about nations. Historical development
  • 2. Classification of the populations – anthropological, genetic, archaeological, linguistic, religious, according to alphabet, ethnic, ethnostatistics, ethnological classification
  • 3. The main ethnocultural changes in the Balkan history: Hellenization, Romanization, Slavization, Albanization, Turkization and Islamization. Modern nations and national identities
  • 4. Migration as a part of the Balkan style of life. Migration types
  • 5. Ethnic minorities. Ethnic minorities policy
  • 6. Multiethnicity and Balkan traditional culture unity. Ethnoidetification function of the culture
Literature
    required literature
  • ŠATAVA, Leoš. Národnostní menšiny v Evropě : encyklopedická příručka. Vyd. 1. Praha: Ivo Železný, 1994, 385 s. ISBN 8071163759. info
  • LANGER, Jiří and Helena BOČKOVÁ. Obydlí v Karpatech a přilehlých oblastech balkánských. Syntéza mezinárodního výzkumu (Dwellings in Carpathians at the Balkans. International research synthesis). Ostrava: Šmíra-Print, 2010, 936 pp. ISBN 978-80-87427-07-1. info
    recommended literature
  • ERIKSEN, Thomas Hylland. Sociální a kulturní antropologie : příbuzenství, národnostní příslušnost, rituál. Translated by Hana Antonínová. Vydání první. Praha: Portál, 2008, 407 stran. ISBN 9788073674656. info
  • BRINGA, Tone. Biti musliman na bosanski način : identitet i zajednica u jednom srednjobosanskom selu. Translated by Senada Kreso. Sarajevo: Dani, 1997, 271 s. ISBN 995871700X. info
  • BOČKOVÁ, Helena. Karakačani: kultura a identita (The Sarakatsani: Culture and Identity). Slovanský jih : časopis Společnosti přátel jižních Slovanů v České republice. Brno: Společnost přátel jižních Slovanů v České republice, 2016, vol. 16, No 3, p. 3-15. ISSN 1213-3612. info
  • BOČKOVÁ, Helena. Makedonské regionální skupiny. Problémy klasifikace, etnonym a kolektivních identit (Macedonian regional groups. Problems of clasification, ethnonyms and collective identities). In Ivan Dorovský. Studia Macedonica II. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2015, p. 91-103. ISBN 978-80-210-7959-5. Digitální knihovna FF MU info
  • BOČKOVÁ, Helena. Vlaši na Balkáně. Geneze, historie a kultura minority. Příspěvek k otázce etnokulturní tradice (The Wlakhs in the Balkan Peninsula. Genesis, History and Culture of the Minority. The Contribution to the Question of an Ethnocultural Tradition). Ethnologia Europae centralis : časopis pro národopis střední Evropy. Brno: Petrov, 2005, vol. 7, -, p. 73-90. ISSN 1210-1109. info
    not specified
  • My a ti druhí v modernej spoločnosti : konštrukcie a transformácie kolektívnych identít. Edited by Gabriela Kiliánová - Eva Kowalská - Eva Krekovičová. 1. vyd. Bratislava: VEDA, vydavateľstvo SAV, 2009, 722 s. ISBN 9788022410250. info
  • NIEDERLE, Lubor. Slovanský svět : zeměpisný a statistický obraz současného Slovanstva. V Praze: nákladem Jana Laichtera na Král. Vinohradech, 1909, [2], 197. URL info
  • KUBA, Ludvík. Čtení o Bosně a Hercegovině : cesty a studie z roků 1893-1896. V Praze: Družstevní práce, 1937, 232 s. info
  • Cvijić, Jovan. Balkansko poluostrvo i Južnoslovenske zemlje. Beograd: Državna štamparija 1922, kap. Metanastazička kretanja, Uzroci metanastazičkich kretanja, Polsedice migracija.
  • Osmanská moc ve střední a jihovýchodní Evropě v 16.-17. století I. Praha: Čs.-sovět. institut ČSAV 1977, s. 55-95, 219-234.
Teaching methods
Lectures, class discussion, e-learning, literature study
Assessment methods
Written exam: min. 60%. Prerequisites for taking the exam: homework (e-learning); minimal attendance 70 %. Student’s exchanges abroad, university events (excursions, lectures by foreign lecturers) are not included in the attendance.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025.
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