FSS:SAN201 Social Anthropol. of the Body - Course Information
SAN201 Social Anthropology and Social History of the Embodiment
Faculty of Social StudiesAutumn 2008
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. Mgr. Eva Šlesingerová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- doc. Mgr. Eva Šlesingerová, Ph.D.
Department of Sociology – Faculty of Social Studies - Timetable
- Thu 16:00–17:40 U32
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is offered to students of any study field.
The capacity limit for the course is 60 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/60, only registered: 0/60, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/60 - Course objectives
- The aim of the course is to introduct our students to the important anthropological theme - the body. Especially the body and embodiment as the social and cultural phenomenon. Within this course we will read and discuss texts concerning various themes. For instance: the body and anthropology, technology, medicine, consumerism, discoures of otherness.
- Syllabus
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Body and the social sciences, intro: the body between nature and culture.
- 3. The Body and the athropology. Theories of the social bodies, various perspectives
- 4. The Genealogy of modern bodies
- 5. Imagination of the scientifical bodies mapping
- 6. The symbolical bodies and the discoursive construction of "the Other"
- 7. reading week
- 8. a written test
- 9. The Economy of bodies, consuming, consumed bodies
- 10.The Ethnography of powerful/powerless bodies
- 11. the film Gattaca
- 12. Alternative, virtual bodies, cyber-bodies
- 13. make-up session
- Literature
- The body silent (Orig.) : Umlčené tělo. info
- Discourse, the body, and identity. Edited by Justine Coupland - Richard Gwyn. 1st pub. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2003, xii, 276 s. ISBN 0-333-96900-6. info
- FOUCAULT, Michel. Dohlížet a trestat :kniha o zrodu vězení. Translated by Čestmír Pelikán. Praha: Dauphin, 2000, 427 s. ISBN 80-86019-96-9. info
- FOUCAULT, Michel. Dějiny sexuality. V Praze: Herrmann & synové, 1999, 189 s. info
- SAHLINS, Marshall. The use and abuse of biology : an anthropological critique of sociobiology. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1976, xv, 120. ISBN 0472766007. info
- Assessment methods
- 1 test, 1 essay, final oral exam
- Language of instruction
- Czech
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