ETMA129 Anthropology of Contemporary

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2024
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Mgr. Oto Polouček, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
prof. dr. Waldemar Tadeusz Kuligowski
Department of European Ethnology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Martina Maradová
Supplier department: Department of European Ethnology – Faculty of Arts
Prerequisites
The course is based on e-learning platform.
Please log on elf.phil.muni.cz for more information. Direct teaching will take place in May (to be specified).
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
This course discusses some of the most recent and exciting developments in the socio-cultural anthropology, such as new methods to study transnational communities around the world and new perspectives on tradition, folk culture, art, mobility etc.
Learning outcomes
The course gives a complex, analytical skills and helps to understand and interpret the processes of cultural changes in the contemporary world. The course provides the students with an anthropological knowledge and methodology to discuss the crucial issues of the contemporary cultures.
Syllabus
  • The course includes six complementary parts.
  • All lectures focused on the most important ideas, methods and technics connecting with anthropological way of thinking about contemporary culture. The course is based on e-learning platform.
  • Please log on elf.phil.muni.cz for more information.
Literature
  • Cultures of motorway: localities through mobility as an anthropological issue. Edited by Waldemar Kuligowski - Agata Stanisz. Wielichowo: TIPI, 2016, 196 stran. ISBN 9788362490219. info
  • CLIFFORD, James. The predicament of culture : twentieth-century ethnography, literature, and art. 8th print. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996, xii, 381. ISBN 0674698436. info
  • BILLIG, Michael. Banal nationalism. 1st pub. London: SAGE Publications, 1995, 200 s. ISBN 0-8039-7525-2. info
Teaching methods
Students have to stream all video lectures. Students have to attend the seminar, which will be scheduled to May. Students may choose to a) write an essay on a selected topic or b) complete colloquium scheduled to May.
Assessment methods
written examination
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2020, Spring 2022.
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