Syllabus
1. Co je antropologie? Společnost, kultura a jejich podíl na lidství2. Stručné dějiny antropologie3. Terénní výzkum a jeho interpretace4. Sociální osoba5. Příbuzenství a původ
6. Manželství a aliance7. Gender a věk
8. Náboženství a rituál9. Společenské hierarchie. Politika a moc10. Politika identity: nacionalismus, menšiny a “my”. Média a sociální vědomí11. Etnicita12. Jazyk a způsoby myšlení.
Annotation
The course focuses upon multifarious relationships between human being(s) on the one hand and society and/or culture on the other hand, using these categories in a broad anthropological sense. The dynamics of the social and cultural relations is explored in various fields that have been relevant for current anthropology: kinship, marriage and alliance, gender and age, politics and power, social consciousness, direct and indirect communication, economic (re)production and exchange, religion and ritual, ethnicity, nationalism and globalization.
Critical approaches to the (variously critiqued) notion of identity are introduced. The course provides students with understanding of elementary concepts of sociocultural anthropology, its subfields and most prominent topics that have been studied by anthropologists recently.