ETMB71 Body, Culture, Society

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2014
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. et Mgr. Klára Brožovičová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Miroslav Válka, Ph.D.
Department of European Ethnology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Martina Maradová
Supplier department: Department of European Ethnology – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
each odd Monday 15:50–17:25 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
Students will become familiar with basic terminology and theoretical overview relevant to human body. They will gain an initial overview of cultural practices and dealing with the body in different societies. At the end of the course, the students will be capable of primary comparison of cultural aspects connected with human body and gain insight into basic analysis of cultural and social practices connected to human bodies. Students will become familiar with basic areas of negotiation of cultural and social standing of the human bodies (relation of the body and medicina, ritualized bodies, bodies and consumption…) and different practices of dealing with the human body (body care, decoration of the body, beauty practices, cultural aspects of physiological processes). Selected topics will be scrutinized from the point of view of ethnology and social anthropology.
Syllabus
  • Theory (Foucault, Mauss) Body care, hygiene. Decoration – what is body, tattoos and scars. Physiological processes and the body – childrearing, menstruation, sexuality. Dead bodies. Body and medicine (traditional and modern, disabled bodies) Body and ritual – dance, rites de passage. Body and consumption culture- gender negotiation – to be a man/woman in different cultures, social and cultural representations of gender.
Literature
    recommended literature
  • BROŽOVIČOVÁ, Klára. Žena v tradiční kultuře : učební materiály (A Woman in Traditional Culture). 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2013, 89 s. ISBN 9788021065833. URL info
    not specified
  • BELTING, Hans. An anthropology of images : picture, medium, body. Translated by Thomas Dunlap. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011, v, 207. ISBN 9780691160962. info
  • THOMAS, Alfred. The Bohemian body : gender and sexuality in modern Czech culture. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 2007, xii, 271. ISBN 0299222802. info
  • RYCHLÍK, Martin. Tetování, skarifikace a jiné zdobení těla. Vyd. 1. Praha: Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, 2005, 350 s. ISBN 8071067806. info
  • HESSELT VAN DINTER, Maarten. The world of tattoo : an illustrated history. Amsterdam: KIT Publishers, 2005, 304 s. ISBN 9068321927. info
  • DOUGLAS, Mary. Purity and danger : an analysis of concept of pollution and taboo. 1st pub. in Routledge classi. New York, N.Y.: Routledge Classics, 2002, xxi, 244. ISBN 0415289955. info
  • MURPHY, Robert Francis. Umlčené tělo. Vyd. 1. Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství, 2001, 188 s. ISBN 80-85850-98-2. info
  • FEIGE, Marcel and Ralf GUTTERMANN. Das Tattoo- und Piercing-Lexikon : Kult und Kultur der Körperkunst. Berlin: Lexikon Imprint Verlag, 2000, 383 s. ISBN 3896022091. info
  • LUPTON, Deborah. Medicine as culture : illness, disease and the body in western societies. London: SAGE Publications, 1994, 182 s. ISBN 0-8039-8924-5. info
  • The body :social process and cultural theory. Edited by Mike Featherstone - Mike Hepworth - Bryan S. Turner. 1st pub. London: SAGE Publications, 1991, vi, 408 s. ISBN 0-8039-8413-8. info
Teaching methods
lectures, class discussion
Assessment methods
An essay in the range of about 5 pages A4 (12, Times New Roman, 1.5 line spacing)- 70% of final score Written test at the end of the semester - 30% of final score
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
Information on the per-term frequency of the course: jeden semestr.
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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