CMA14 Roma in Central Europe

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2023
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Irena Kašparová, M.A., Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Irena Kašparová, M.A., Ph.D.
Department of Film Studies and Audiovisual Culture – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Sociology – Faculty of Social Studies
Timetable
Mon 13. 2. to Fri 12. 5. Wed 12:00–13:40 U35
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Roma in Central Europe presents core topics related to Romani Studies from the perspective of the Social Science. Students will read texts that are critically examining ideas of Self and the Other and upon this departing point then look at romistic texts regarding Roma history, culture, language, politics and social issues. Aim of the course is to provide the students with critical thinking and reflexivity when approaching ethnic issues, rather than simply adopting the approach of cultural relativity, developing discourse or social work approach.
As a part of the coursework, students will visit the Museum of Romani Culture and critically examine the permanent exhibition, creating a short video/presentation according to the assigned topic.
Learning outcomes
After successfully completing this course, the student has theoretical knowledge of Roma-Gypsy people living in Central and Eastern Europe. S/he understands their social and family structure, economic relations, political organisation, history, structure of language and material culture. S/he is aware of racial theories and acts of discrimination that occur in relation to co-existence between majority and Roma minority in Central European societies.
Syllabus
  • 1) Ethnicity, Ethnic Group and Nation: the Importance of Groupness
  • 2) Indian History of the Roma People
  • 3) On the Move: From India to Europe
  • 4) Gypsies - a European Minority: Living, Working, Culture
  • 5) Race, Racism and Nationalism
  • 6) Holocaust - the Common Experience
  • 7) Communist Ideology and the Roma People
  • 8) Preserving Roma Folklore: What Form of the Stereotype Is This Anyway?
  • 9) Roma as a Political Program: National and International Politics
  • 10) Romanticizing Roma: Film, Art, Literature, Music
  • 11) Visit to the Roma Museum: Roma the Visible
  • 12) Presentation of the final project
Literature
    required literature
  • ANDERSON, Benedict R. O'G. Imagined communities : reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism. Rev. ed. New York: Verso, 2006, xv, 240. ISBN 1844670864. info
  • Print literacy developmentuniting cognitive and social practice theories. Edited by Victoria Purcell-Gates - Erik Jacobson - Sophie Degener. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004, viii, 206. ISBN 0674015398. info
  • STEWART, Michael. The time of the Gypsies. Boulder: Westview Press, 1997, xviii, 302. ISBN 0-8133-3198-6. info
  • Ethnic groups and boundaries : the social organization of culture difference. Edited by Fredrik Barth. Boston: Little, Brown and comp., 1969, 153 s. ISBN 0881339792. info
    recommended literature
  • Hanson, A. 1989. The Making of the Maori: Culture Invention and its Logic in American Anthropologist. No. 91, 1989.
  • Frazer, A. 1992. The Gypsies. Blackwell Publishing.
  • Willems, W. 1998. Ethnicity as a Death-Trap: The history of Gypsy Studies. In Lucassen, Willems, Cottaar ed. Gypsies and Other Itinerant Groups. University of Amsterdam.
  • Gheorghe, N. 1999. The social construction of Romani Identity. In Acton, T. ed. Gypsy politics and Traveller identity. University of Hertfordshire Press
  • Gheorghe, N. 1999. The social construction of Romani Identity. In Acton, T. ed. Gypsy politics and Traveller identity. University of Hertfordshire Press.
  • MacDougall, D. 1997. The Visual in Anthropology in Banks, M., Morphy, H. ed. Rethinking Visual Anthropology. Yale University Press.
  • Trumpener, K. 1992. The Time of the Gypsies: A „People without History“ in the Narratives of the West in Critical Inquiry 18. 1992
  • Keesing, R.M. 1982. Kastom in Melanesia: An Overview in Mankind. August 1982. vol. 13. No. 4.
  • Keesing, R.M. 1989. Creating the past in The Contemporary Pacific, spring/fall 1989 (IS)
  • Day, S. Papataxiarchis, E. Stewart, M. ed. Lilies of the Field. Introduction. Westview Press.
  • Iliev, I. 1999. Somebody like you: the images of Gypsies and Yoroks among some Bulgarian Muslims. In Acton, T. ed. Gypsy politics and Traveller identity. University of Hertfordshire Press.
  • Okely, J. 1997. Some political consequences of theories of Gypsy ethnicity: the place of the intellectual. In James. A., Heckey, J., Dawson, A. ed. After Writing Culture. London: Routledge.
  • Appadurai, A. 2003. Sovereignty without Territoriality: Notes for a Post-national Geography. In Law, S.M., Lawrence-Zuniga, D. ed. The Anthropology of Space and place. Blackwell Publishing.
  • Peukert, D.J.K. Inside Nazi Germany: Conformity, Opposition and Racism in Everyday Life. Penguin Books. Chap. 12.
  • ní Shuinéar, S. 1999. Why do Gaujos hate Gypsies so much, anyway? In Acton, T. ed. Gypsy politics and Traveller identity. University of Hertfordshire Press.
  • Willems, W. and Lucassen, L. 1998. The Church of Knowledge: Representation of Gypsies in Encyclopedias. In Lucassen, Willems, Cottaar ed. Gypsies and Other Itinerant Groups. University of Amsterdam.
  • Sutherland, A. 1986. Gypsies The hidden Americans. Waveland Press, Inc. Preface, Introduction and Methodology.
  • Van Dijk, Teun A. 2000. “New(s) Racism: A discourse Analytical Approach. In Cottle. S. ed. Ethnic minorities and the media : changing cultural boundaries . Buckingham: Open University Press.
  • Silverman. C.1988. Negotiating Gypsiness: Strategy in Context in Journal of American Folklore. Vol. 100/101.
Teaching methods
Lecture (45 minutes), seminars (45 minutes), active participation in class discussions; individual as well as collective reading and presentation.
Assessment methods
Written assignment (50%), Final presentation (50%).
Language of instruction
English
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