Course: Introduction to the Cultural Anthropology

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Course title Introduction to the Cultural Anthropology
Course code KFL/UKA
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Lesson
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements Course does not contain work placement
Recommended optional programme components None
Course availability The course is available to visiting students
Lecturer(s)
  • Hrabáková Luďka, PhDr. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Basic terms: culture, divisions of culture, enculturation, diffusion of cultural elements, ethnocentrism, cultural relativism, anthropology. 2. Magic, origin and basis of magical thinking, homeopathic and contact magic. 3. Ritual, relationship between rituals, magic and myth, transitional rituals, cyclic rituals, ritual and art, sports and games, ritual and policy. 4. Myth, its function, categorisation of myth, mythologem, myth and art. 5. Partnership, endogamy, exogamy, residence rules, matrilinearity, patrilinearity, forms of marriage. 6. Kinship, relatives relations, nuclear family, greatfamily. 7. Symbol, universal and arbitrary symbols, symbolic figures.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monological explanation (lecture, presentation,briefing), Dialogue metods(conversation,discussion,brainstorming)
  • Class attendance - 28 hours per semester
  • Semestral paper - 50 hours per semester
  • Preparation for exam - 50 hours per semester
  • Preparation for credit - 20 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
Essential terms of theory of cultural anthropology: culture, process of enculturation, cultural diffusion, cultural relativism, ethnocentrism, cultural and biological determinism, encounter of culture and its consequence, the main cultural phenomena: magic, ritual, myth, kinship, partnership, symbol, traditions and customs.
The students will acknowledge themselves with the informations acording to the goal and the matter of the course.
Prerequisites
Preconditions are frased in the annotation of the course and in the curriculum of the studying programme.

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral exam

Recommended literature
  • Sociální a kulturní antropologie. Vyd. 2., rozš. Praha : Sociologické nakladatelství, 2000. ISBN 0-85850-29-X..
  • Budil, Ivo T. Mýtus, jazyk a kulturní antropologie. 2. vyd. Praha : Triton, 1995. ISBN 80-85875-04-7.
  • e-learningový kurz Úvod do kulturní antropologie na https://elearning.fp.tul.cz/course/view.php?id=311. e-learningový kurz Úvod do kulturní antropologie.
  • Eriksen, Thomas Hylland. Sociální a kulturní antropologie: příbuzenství, národnostní příslušnost, rituál . Praha: Portál, 2008. ISBN 978-80-7367-465-6.
  • Frazer, James George. Zlatá ratolest : [Magie, mýty, náboženství]. 2. vyd. Praha : Mladá fronta, 1994. ISBN 80-204-0488-0.
  • Hrabáková, Luďka. Vybrané kapitoly z kulturní antropologie : studijní texty pro distanční studium. Liberec : Technická univerzita, 2002. ISBN 80-7083-617-2.
  • Kottak, Conrad Phillip. Anthropology. The Exploration of Human Diversity. 11th ed. New York :Boston : McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2006.
  • Lévi-Strauss, Claude. Antropologie a problémy moderního světa.. Praha: Karolinum, 2012. ISBN 978-80-246-2098-5.
  • Murphy, Robert Francis. Úvod do kulturní a sociální antropologie. Vyd. 2. Praha : Sociolo-gické nakladatelství, 2004. ISBN 80-86429-25-3.
  • Soukup, Martin. Základy kulturní antropologie. Praha: Akademie veřejné správy, 2009. ISBN 978-80-87207-03-1.
  • Soukup, Václav. Přehled antropologických teorií kultury. Vyd. 2. Praha : Portál, 2004. ISBN 80-7178-929-1.
  • Van Gennep, Arnold. Přechodové rituály : systematické studium rituálů. Praha : Lidové no-viny, 1997. ISBN 80-7106-178-6.


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