B8352 Anthropological methods III

Faculty of Science
Spring 2002
Extent and Intensity
1/4/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: graded credit.
Teacher(s)
doc. RNDr. Eva Drozdová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
RNDr. Vladimír Šedivý, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
RNDr. Vladimír Šedivý, CSc.
Department of Anthropology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: RNDr. Vladimír Šedivý, CSc.
Prerequisites
Student have to pass through courses of anatomy, physiology and introduction to the anthropology.
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
Anthropology of living Man is focused to the his biological and cultural principles. The course is engaged in the state and progression of human attributes variability, which raised from the genetic ground and which express oneself through the adaptability toward the given environment by human beings influenseable; the variability of the human manifestation is also co-generate in the human reciprocal interaction. Course aim is conciliation of chosen theoretical and some practical knowledge about man and his culture. Knowledge emphasised an unity of his origin and speciality of his manifestation embedded in the singularity of his existence and universality of his living, which should support to explain human behaviour and particularity, group diversity as much as human appearance originality of any person. And piece of knowledge about an activity and about natural, social and ideological factors of surroundings, which influence this human attributes.
Syllabus
  • 1. Prevailing methods of anthropology: observation, anthropometry, questioning, comparison in time and space. 2. Somatoscopy I - descriptive characters on head, forehead, nose, lips, chin, eyes, auricle, gathers, hair and beard. 3. Somatoscopy II - descriptive characters on trunk and limbs: evaluation of state of nutrition, skeleton robusticity, musculature development; chest types, shape, length, transversal contour, relief, breast forms; abdomen profile; spine contour; upper and lower extremity. 4. Somatoscopy III - chromatosis of skin, hair, eyes; body feathering: primary, secondary, tertiary, hair vortices, acomia; dentition: size and shape of dental curve, nip, enamel abrasion, size and colour of tees. 5. Dermatoglyphics I - description of papillary field, minutiae; types of finger patterns according to the Galton, Purkyne, Cummins and Midlo, Penrose, triradius, pattern centre; qualitative (patterns) and quantitative (ridge counting) analysis on finger prints; differences between gender, races and diseases. 6. Dermatoglyphics II - axial, interdigital and marginal triradia, palm and sole patterns (thenar, hypothenar and interdigital fields, hallucal, antithenar and calcar fields), lines tracking (MLI) and formulae, ridge counting (a-b, b-c, c-d, a-d), flexion creases (typology according Wenninger). 7. Anthropometry I - development, standardisation according to the French and German school, Martin and Sailor, ergonomical standards according to the ISO; measuring instruments; anthropometric points on head, trunk and extremities. 8. Anthropometry II - measuring of height, width and length parameters, circumferential measurements, skinfolds thickness; creation of anthropometric standards, standard comparison. 9. Somatotypology - according to Hippocrates, Viola, Kretschmer, Sheldon, Heath and Carter. 10. Typology of races I - racism; development and characterisation of large races (black, yellow, white). 11. Typology of races II - races of Euroasia according to Hooton and Deniker. 12. Ontogeny - concept, embryonal and foetus development; growth and development of human body and its systems; ageing and involution, death, postmortal changes. 13. Auxology - growth regularity of different parts of body, factors affecting growth, methods of observation and valuation of growth of children, youth, adults and old people. 14. Organisation of anthropological researches: problem, work hypothesis, looking for methods of demonstration, choosing of measurements (recording card), selecting of group members.
Assessment methods (in Czech)
Přendáška 2 hod., praktické cvičení 3 hod. Klasifikovaný zápočet.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2000, Spring 2001.
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