FF:SRUS_02 Anthropology and culture II. - Course Information
SRUS_02 Anthropology and culture II.
Faculty of ArtsSpring 2012
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Petr Kostrhun, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. MUDr. Vladimír Novotný, CSc. (lecturer), Mgr. Viktor Pantůček, Ph.D. (deputy)
Mgr. Viktor Pantůček, Ph.D. (lecturer) - Guaranteed by
- Mgr. Viktor Pantůček, Ph.D.
Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Vlasta Taranzová
Supplier department: Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts - Timetable
- Wed 10:50–12:25 N51
- 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
- Cultural anthropology is a social science studying human cultures, their origins and development, their comparison and importance for the man. Student will be able to understand and explain the problems of relations of anthropology and culture.
At the end of the course students will be able to: 1. Define the basic term from the field of Cultural anthropology; 2. Explain the relations of individual Cultural anthropology disciplines (anthropology, archeology, ethnology, linquistic); 3. Formulate opinions/conclusions about problems multiculturalism; 4. Interpret Cultural anthropology texts (Boas, Frazer, Malinowski, Benediktová, Levi-Strauss etc.); 5. Summarize findings from the field of actual theory of Cultural anthropology. - Syllabus
- history of anthropology;
- human and society, culture and socialization;
- social systems, status and role;
- family and relatives, relational systems;
- race problematics
- language and society, sociolinguistics;
- social order and authority, power in the society;
- feasts, rituals and religion
- Literature
- SOUKUP, Václav. Dějiny antropologie : (encyklopedický přehled dějin fyzické antropologie, paleoantropologie, sociální a kulturní antropologie). Praha: Karolinum, 2004, 667 stran. ISBN 8024603373. info
- SOUKUP, Václav. Přehled antropologických teorií kultury. Vydání druhé. Praha: Portál, 2004, 229 stran. ISBN 8071789291. info
- COPANS, Jean. Základy antropologie a etnologie. Vyd. 1. Praha: Portál, 2001, 124 s. ISBN 80-7178-385-4. info
- Sociální a kulturní antropologie [2000, SLON]. Edited by Alena Vodáková - Olga Vodáková - Václav Soukup. Vyd. 2., rozš. Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství, 2000, 175 s. ISBN 80-85850-29-X. info
- Úvod do kulturní a sociální antropologie. Edited by Robert Francis Murphy - Hana Červinková. 1. vyd. Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství, 1998, 267 s. ISBN 80-85850-53-2. info
- SOUKUP, Václav. Dějiny sociální a kulturní antropologie. 2. rozš. vyd. Praha: Karolinum, 1996, 303 s. ISBN 8071841587. info
- KOTTAK, Conrad Phillip. Anthropology : the exploration of human diversity. 6th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1994, xxix, 573. ISBN 0070359180. info
- KOTTAK, Conrad Phillip. Cultural anthropology. 6th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1994, xxviii, 43. ISBN 0070359075. info
- WOLF, Josef. Člověk a jeho svět : úvod do studia antropologických věd, základní antropologické otázky, kulturní a sociální antropologie. V Praze: [s.n.], 1992, 312 s. info
- BUDIL, Ivo T. Mýtus, jazyk a kulturní antropologie. Praha: Triton, 1992, 167 s. ISBN 80-900904-5-1. info
- Teaching methods
- lectures, presentations by professionals, excursion/visit
- Assessment methods
- written test, essay
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Follow-Up Courses
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2012, recent)
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