SAN201 Social Anthropology and Social History of the Embodiment

Faculty of Social Studies
Autumn 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
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2007.
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