BKB407 The traditional Balkan's Family

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2017
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 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 12:30–14:05 G21
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
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Course objectives
Course is focused to problems of family, family line, and relationships in Balkans. Students will realize the significance of Balkan joint (multi-generation) family as the European phenomenon, studying it in broader European and Mediterranean historical context. They will 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 will be oriented in problems of family customs. They will acquire the knowledge covering evolutionary trends in Balkan family and relationship in modern and post-modern era. They will acquire current theoretical and factual knowledge concerning the studies of European historical family as well as basic ethnologic terminology. They will 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
  • KADLEC, Karel. Rodinný nedíl čili zádruha v právu slovanském. Praha: K. Kadlec, 1898, 136 s. info
  • GOODY, Jack. Proměny rodiny v evropské historii : historicko-antropologická esej. Translated by Petra Diestlerová. Vyd. 1. Praha: Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, 2006, 229 s. ISBN 8071063967. info
  • LANGER, Jiří and Helena BOČKOVÁ. Obydlí v Karpatech a přilehlých oblastech balkánských. Syntéza mezinárodního výzkumu (Dwellings in Carpathians at the Balkans. International research synthesis). Ostrava: Šmíra-Print, 2010, 936 pp. ISBN 978-80-87427-07-1. info
  • SKUPNIK, Jaroslav. Antropologie příbuzenství : příbuzenství, manželství a rodina v kulturněantropologické perspektivě. Vyd. 1. Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství (SLON), 2010, 402 s. ISBN 9788074190193. info
  • Komorovský, Ján. Tradičná svatba u Slovanov. Bratislava 1976.
  • HORSKÁ, Pavla. Dětství, rodina a stáří v dějinách Evropy. Praha: Panorama, 1990. ISBN 807038011X. info
  • MURPHY, Robert Francis. Úvod do kulturní a sociální antropologie. Translated by Hana Červinková. 2. vyd. Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství, 2004, 268 s. ISBN 9788086429250. info
  • MITTERAUER, Michael and Reinhard SIEDER. The european family : patriarchy to partnership from the middle ages to the present. 1st pub. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1983, xv, 235. ISBN 0631129235. info
  • Řecký člověk a jeho svět. Edited by Jean-Pierre Vernant, Translated by Lucie Fialková. Vyd. 1. Praha: Vyšehrad, 2005, 268 s. ISBN 8070217316. info
  • ŠVECOVÁ, Soňa and Kornélia JAKUBÍKOVÁ. Tradície slovenskej rodiny. Edited by Marta Botíková. 1. vyd. Bratislava: Veda, 1997, 242 s. ISBN 8022404616. info
  • KADLEC, Karel. Rodinný nedíl ve světle dat srovnavacích dějin právních. V Brně: K. Kadlec, 1901, 67 s. info
  • KOLEV, Nikolaj. Bălgarska etnografija (etnologija) : učebnik. 6., preraboteno i dopălneno. Veliko Tărnovo: Gaberoff, 2002, 288 s. ISBN 9549706052. info
Teaching methods
Lecture. 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 or the paper or regular attendance (70 %).
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught once in two years.
General note: předmět se vyučuje každý druhý rok a střídá se z předmětem Tradiční architektura na Balkáně.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2014.
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