1. Antropologie a severoameričtí indiáni2. "Indiánské smlouvy" a politika USA3. Politický a právní status indiánských rezervací4. Indiánský aktivismus5. Rezervační ekonomika6. Školství a jazyková revitalizace7. Nativní náboženství a synkreze8. Zdraví a nativní techniky léčení9. Hudba a powwow10. Muzea a politiky paměti11. Popkulturní reprezentace indiánů12. Euroindiáni a kulturní apropriace Povinná literatura:Biolsi, Thomas, ed. A companion to the anthropology of American Indians. Malden: Blackwell,
2004.Johansen, Bruce Elliott. The Praeger Handbook on Contemporary Issues in Native America. 2 vol. Westport: Praeger,
2007.Doporučená literatura:Deloria, Vine. Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto. New York: Avon,
1969.Prucha, Francis Paul. American Indian treaties: the history of a political anomaly. Berkeley: University of California Press,
1994.Fixico, Donald Lee. Daily life of Native Americans in the twentieth century. Westport: Greenwood Press,
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The course is a loose continuation of the course YBA106 - Native American Cultures of North America (its passing is not mandatory, but recommended). It mediates basic introduction to the study of the problems of the Indian population in North America today, especially in the US (but with extension also into Canada and accentuating globalization of the contemporary world).
It aims to present the current situation of Indians and problems, they face, through the prism of sociocultural anthropology and its theories.