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Lecturer(s)
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Zajícová Naďa, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Šafařík Jan, PhDr. Ph.D.
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Švátorová Anna, PhDr. Ph.D.
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Novotný Jiří, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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1. Anthropology and political geography: space, society and politics. 2. Origin of political order: historical-political formation of the current structure of the world. 3. Current international political system: states, weak states, disintegrated states, non-state actors (multinational corporations, etc.). 4. Spatial dimension of political, ethnic and religious conflicts. 5. Anthropological study of political order: the birth of political anthropology as a subdiscipline of social and cultural anthropology. 6. Classical paradigms of political anthropology I: Structurally functionalist paradigm and procedural approach to the study of political systems. 7. Classical paradigms of political anthropology II: Macro approaches to the study of power relations (neo-revolutionary school, political economy, theory of dependence and development). 8. The Twilight of Classical Political Anthropology I: From Colonial Political Anthropology to Postcolonialism. Reasons for abandoning traditional paradigms. Anthropology as a tool of political power. Hegemony, ideology, subalterity. 9. The Twilight of Classical Political Anthropology II: Postcolonialism and Postmodernism. The influence of postmodernism on new anthropological approaches to the study of political, power and power relations. 10. A new approach: Towards interdisciplinarity. Causes and examples of blurring the boundaries between anthropology, political science, sociology and other disciplines. Critical ethnography.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Lecture with a video analysis, Cooperative instruction, Students' portfolio, Seminar classes, Self-study of literature, Lecture
- Undergraduate study programme term essay (20-40)
- 35 hours per semester
- Preparation for an examination (30-60)
- 56 hours per semester
- Contact hours
- 39 hours per semester
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| prerequisite |
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| Knowledge |
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| to characterize and explain basic concepts and theoretical concepts of anthropological thought |
| to characterize and describe approaches to study socio-cultural phenomena from an anthropological perspective |
| to describe the difference between individual anthropological subdisciplines and schools |
| to understand scientifically structured lecture |
| Skills |
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| to understand and interpret professional text in a foreign language |
| to use electronic information resources |
| to understand and interpret professional text in the Czech language |
| to use printed information resources |
| to formally present your own understanding of the professional text and have expert debates |
| to write a cultivated professional text |
| Competences |
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| learning outcomes |
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| Knowledge |
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| to characterize and explain the basic characteristics and subject matter of exploring political anthropology |
| to distinguish and describe specific thematic areas that political anthropology focuses on |
| to characterize and explain the basic approaches and concepts that political anthropology works with |
| to classify individual types of political-geographical regions |
| to describe the formation of the political-geographical structure of individual regions of the world |
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| to define and analyse paradigms in the context of policy, ideology and power research from an anthropological perspective |
| to analyze and interpret the influence of political-geographical factors on the domestic and foreign policies of states |
| to interpret historical and current conflicts in relation to political-geographical aspectson the basis of the acquired knowledge to independently analyze the influence of political-geographical factors on the stability of the state or region |
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| teaching methods |
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| Knowledge |
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| Lecture supplemented with a discussion |
| Collaborative instruction |
| Self-study of literature |
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| Seminar classes |
| Students' portfolio |
| Self-study of literature |
| Individual study |
| One-to-One tutorial |
| Textual studies |
| Competences |
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| Self-study of literature |
| Individual study |
| Lecture supplemented with a discussion |
| Textual studies |
| Skills demonstration |
| Students' portfolio |
| Seminar classes |
| assessment methods |
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| Knowledge |
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| Oral exam |
| Seminar work |
| Skills |
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| Skills demonstration during practicum |
| Oral exam |
| Individual presentation at a seminar |
| Group presentation at a seminar |
| Seminar work |
| Competences |
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| Oral exam |
| Skills demonstration during practicum |
| Individual presentation at a seminar |
| Group presentation at a seminar |
| Seminar work |
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Recommended literature
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Balandier, Georges. Politická antropologie. Praha : Dauphin, 2000. ISBN 80-86019-90-X.
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Cabada, Ladislav; Šanc, David. Panregiony ve 21. století : vývoj a perspektivy mezinárodních makroregionů. Plzeň : Aleš Čeněk, 2011. ISBN 978-80-7380-357-5.
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Comaroff, J., & Comaroff, J. L. (Eds.). Law and Disorder in the Postcolony. University of Chicago Press, 2008.
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Fortes, M.-Evans-Pritchard, E. E. African Political Systems. London: Oxford University Press, 1940.
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Glassner, Martin Ira; Fahrer, Chuck. Political geography. Hoboken : John Wiley & Sons, 2004. ISBN 978-0-471-35266-2.
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Hinton, A.L. & Roth, K. Annihilating difference: the anthropology of genocide (Vol. 3).. Univ of California Press, 2002.
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Kurtz, Donald V. Political anthropology : paradigms and power. Boulder : Westview Press, 2001. ISBN 0-8133-3804-2.
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Leach, Edmund Ronald. Political systems of Highland Burma : a study of Kachin social structure. Oxford : Berg, 2004. ISBN 1-84520-277-5.
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Lewellen, Ted C. Political anthropology : an introduction. 3rd ed. Westport : Praeger, 2003. ISBN 0-89789-891-5.
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Nugent, D. - Vincent, J. A Companion to the Antropology of Politics. Blackwell Publishing, 2007.
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Parnell, Philip; Stephanie C. Kane. Crime´s Power: Anthropologists and the Ethnography of Crime. New York and Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
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Scheper-Hughes, N., & Bourgois, P. I. (Eds.). Violence in war and peace: An anthology (p. 1150).. Blackwell Publ., 2004.
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Swartz, Marc J.; Tuden, Arthur. Political anthropology. New Brunswick : Aldine Transaction, 2009. ISBN 978-0-2023-0894-4.
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Vincent, Joan. The anthropology of politics : a reader in ethnography, theory, and critique. Malden : Blackwell, 2002. ISBN 978-0631224402.
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von Benda-Beckmann, F., & von Benda-Beckmann, K. (Eds.). Rules of law and laws of ruling: on the governance of law. Routledge, 2016.
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