BKB408 Balkans Vernacular Architecture

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2015
Extent and Intensity
1/1. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
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
Thu 15:50–17:25 J31
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
Course objectives
Course is focused to problems of family, family line, and relationships in Balkans. Students would realize the significance of Balkan joint (multi-generation) family as the European phenomenon, studying it in broader European and Mediterranean historical context. They would realize the versatility of relations between the family and customary law, economics, residence, settlement development, and folklore, both in rural and urban environments of the Balkans. They would be oriented in problems of family customs. They would acquire the knowledge covering evolutionary trends in Balkan family and relationship in modern and post-modern era. They would acquire current theoretical and factual knowledge concerning the studies of European historical family as well as basic ethnologic terminology. They would instill the importance of blood relations in contemporary Balkans.
Syllabus
  • 1. Social status. Functions of the family. 2. Type of European Eastern and Western families. 3. Balkan family: size, signs, types, forms. Phenomenon “zadruga” and V. S. Karadžić. Simple family. Broad family, Joint (multi-generation) family. Brother and father types of joint family. 4. Hierarchical structure. Mutual relations among members. Collective responsibility. 5. Exogamy. Wedding age. Family evolutionary cycle. 6. Division and inheritance of family property. Grandparents. Family economic. 7. Residence types with common and separated household and forms of residence. 8. Family lines in Montenegro and Albania. Vendetta. Significant families in Greek, Albanian, and Bosnian society. 9. Family names. 10. Family customs. Family and folklore. 11. Family residence. 12. Balkan Muslim family. 13. Qualitative and quantitative metamorphoses of the family in modern times. Contemporary Balkan family.
Literature
  • Evropská muzea v přírodě. Photo by Jiří Langer. Vyd. 1. Praha: Baset, 2005, 895 s. ISBN 8073400693. info
  • FROLEC, Václav. Kulturní společenství a interetnické vztahy v lidovém stavitelství v Podunají. Praha: Academia, nakladatelství Československé akademie věd, 1970, 89 s. info
  • Bočková, Helena. Vícedílný dvůr na Balkáně – specifický fenomén mediteránní tradice v Evropě. Český lid 95, 2008, s. 191–209. ISSN 0009-0794.
  • Kožucharov, Georgi. Bălgarski kăšti ot epochata na Văzraždaneto. Sofija: BAN 1953.
  • Kojić, Branislav Dj. Stara gradska i seoska architektura u Srbiji. Beograd: Prosveta 1949.
  • Vendbanime dhe banesa fshatare. Edited by Ali Muka - Emin Riza - Pirro Thomo. Tiranë: Botimettoena, 2004, 480 s. ISBN 9992719265. info
  • Botík, Ján. Sociálne determinácie roľníckych obydlí vo svetle etnografických zistení. Archaeologia historica 12, 1987, s. 245–273 (balkánská část).
  • Bočková, Helena – Langer, Jiří. The Carpathian-Balcan Comparison Enriches the Studies of the Carpathian Tradicional House. Basic and Orientation of Research. Ethnologia Europae Centralis 5, 2001, s. 30–56. ISSN 1210-1109.
  • VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Marcus. Deset knih o architektuře [Vitruvius, 2001] : De architectura libri decem (Orig.). Translated by Alois Otoupalík, Edited by Jan Bouzek. 3. vyd. Praha: Arista, 2001, 438 s. : i. ISBN 80-86410-23-4. info
  • JELÍNEK, Jan. Střecha nad hlavou : kořeny nejstarší architektury a bydlení. Vyd. 1. Brno: Vutium, 2006, 461 s. ISBN 8021423676. info
Teaching methods
Lecture, 1½ hours per week. Students would verify acquired knowledge both thru independent studying of literature and via terrain research.
Assessment methods
Precondition for oral colloquium is submitting of the research report and the paper.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught once in three years.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2011, Spring 2018.
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