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Lecturer(s)
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Brewin Alois, Doc. Ph.D.
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Mtaawa Akpanza Sylvestre, doc. PhDr. Ph.D.
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Krechovská Dana, Doc. M.A., Ph.D.
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Course content
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1. Material turn in contemporary anthropology 2. Material culture amongst Cultural Anthropology, European Ethnology and Cultural Studies 3. Collecting artefacts: Museological and antiquarian approaches 4. Trichotomy of material, spiritual, and social culture in European Ethnology 5. Material culture in historical and archeological sciences 6. Material culture of archaic and traditional societies 7. Material culture and theory of production and consumption in Cultural Studies 8. Material culture of contemporary complex societies I. - consumer and mass culture 9. Material culture of contemporary complex societies II. - subcultures and naive art 10. Methodology and techniques of field research of material culture
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Lecture supplemented with a discussion, Collaborative instruction, Multimedia supported teaching, Seminar classes, Self-study of literature, Textual studies
- Preparation for an examination (30-60)
- 30 hours per semester
- Contact hours
- 39 hours per semester
- Preparation for comprehensive test (10-40)
- 35 hours per semester
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| Knowledge |
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| to characterize and describe the basic concepts of anthropological sciences |
| to characterize and describe the main disciplines of historical, humanities and social sciences, especially those dealing with material culture |
| to characterize and explain the basic aspects of culture of various historical periods of the Czech and the European history |
| to describe and interpret the basic chronology of art history |
| to describe the difference between material and spiritual culture |
| to communicate at a basic level in a selected world language |
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| to understand and interpret professional text in the Czech language |
| to understand and interpret a professional text in a selected world language |
| to understand a professional lecture |
| to consider the social function of artifacts |
| to present the social functions of the artifact in the seminar |
| to lead a debate on a professional text |
| to use printed information sources |
| to use electronic information sources |
| Competences |
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| learning outcomes |
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| Knowledge |
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| to define material culture and artefactual elements of expressive culture from cultural, social, historical and geographical points of view |
| to characterize paradigm shifts and the development of theory and methodology of material culture research in socio-cultural anthropology, European ethnology, cultural studies and related disciplines |
| to identify various types of material artifacts in the contemporary Czech society, including the evaluation of their historical roots and their social function |
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| to apply methodological approaches to material culture research to specific empirical material |
| to use relevant anthropological, ethnological, historiographical and art historical terminology in relation to material culture and artifacts |
| to reflect critically contemporary approaches of socio-cultural anthropology, European ethnology, cultural studies and related fields to the study of historical and contemporary artifacts |
| to identify various types of material artifacts in the contemporary Czech society, including the evaluation of their historical roots and their social function |
| to analyze and compare different types and interrelationships of selected material phenomena in different types of cultures at the basic level |
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| teaching methods |
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| Knowledge |
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| Lecture supplemented with a discussion |
| Multimedia supported teaching |
| Textual studies |
| Collaborative instruction |
| Self-study of literature |
| Skills |
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| Multimedia supported teaching |
| Seminar classes |
| Textual studies |
| Self-study of literature |
| Competences |
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| Lecture supplemented with a discussion |
| Multimedia supported teaching |
| Seminar classes |
| Collaborative instruction |
| Self-study of literature |
| assessment methods |
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| Knowledge |
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| Written exam |
| Test |
| Skills |
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| Test |
| Skills demonstration during practicum |
| Competences |
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| Written exam |
| Test |
| Skills demonstration during practicum |
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Recommended literature
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Lidová kultura : národopisná encyklopedie Čech, Moravy a Slezska. 1. svazek, [Biografická část]. Vyd. 1. Praha : Etnologický ústav Akademie věd České republiky v Praze, 2007. ISBN 978-80-204-1711-4.
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Lidová kultura : národopisná encyklopedie Čech, Moravy a Slezska. 2. svazek, [Věcná část, A - N]. Vyd. 1. Praha : Etnologický ústav Akademie věd České republiky v Praze, 2007. ISBN 978-80-204-1712-1.
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Lidová kultura : národopisná encyklopedie Čech, Moravy a Slezska. 3. svazek, [Věcná část, O - Ž]. Vyd. 1. Praha : Etnologický ústav Akademie věd České republiky v Praze, 2007. ISBN 978-80-204-1713-8.
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Appadurai, Arjun. The social life of things : commodities in cultural perspective. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1986. ISBN 978-0-521-35726-5.
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Berger, Arthur Asa. What object Means. An Introduction to Material Culture. Walnut Creek, 2009.
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Buchli, Victor (ed.). The Material Culture Reader. London, 1996.
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Dorson, Richard M. (ed.). Handbook of American Folklore. Bloomington, 1986.
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Doušek, Roman. Etnologický výzkum lidového stavitelství. Brno, 2013.
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Janeček, Petr (ed.). Folklor atomového věku. Kolektivně sdílené prvky expresivní kultury v soudobé české společnosti.. Praha, 2011.
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Jeřábek, Richard. Kultura materiální, duchovní a sociální - antikvovaná trichotomie. Národopisná revue 10, s. 5-6. 2000.
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Petráň, Josef. Dějiny hmotné kultury. II/2, Kultura každodenního života od 16. do 18. století /. Karolinum, Praha, 1997.
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Petráň, Josef. Dějiny hmotné kultury. I/1, Vymezení kulturních dějin, kultura každodenního života od pravěku do 15.století /.
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