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Lecturer(s)
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Fajfr Alexander, doc. PhDr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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Contentwise the course will give stdudents a sense of specific issues such as identities, cultures, ethnicity, migratzion and other phenomena forming and having an impact on African societies and cultures in an era of globalization with considering also the colonial heritage. The lectures introduce students to complex issues of an anthropological study of societies and cultures of Africa. The course combines a set of relevant and current anthropological themes such as social organizations, relgiion and politics, poverty and migration, ethnicity and (trans)nationalism, or globalization and glocalization. African societies are taken as complex and dynamcially changing entities reacting on broader global phenomena. So is taken the concept of culture, as an everchanging entity depending on a broader spectrum of social, political, religious, ethnic and global inmpacts.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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One-to-One tutorial, Individual study, Students' self-study, Self-study of literature, Seminar
- Preparation for an examination (30-60)
- 104 hours per semester
- Contact hours
- 26 hours per semester
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| Knowledge |
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| to orientate in basic terms and methods in ethnographic fieldwork |
| to orientate in the basic concepts of social science research for selected African societies and cultures |
| to orientate in the issues of African societies and cultures and their dynamics |
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| to read and understand scholarly literature in native and foreign languages and reflect gained knowledge for his/her research and its outcomes |
| to evaluate the obtained data |
| to elaborate individual work on any and specified topic |
| to work independently with sources and literature |
| on the basis of previous studies to conduct field research in accordance with the methodological principles of the field |
| learning outcomes |
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| Knowledge |
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| to characterize and orientate in the basic issues of social organizations of selected African countries / societies, including the global context in anthropological and interdisciplinary perspectives |
| to orientate in the specifics of field research in Africa and its feasibility |
| to orientate in global and local contexts and factors that influence the dynamics of change in African societies and cultures |
| to orientate in the basic sources for research of selected African societies and cultures |
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| to carry out field research |
| to conduct field research in accordance with the methodological principles of the field and on the basis of acquaintance with the context of field research in selected African countries |
| to elaborate a qualified professional text in a foreign language (English) and present it |
| to critically assess the fieldwork data and analyze them in qualified manner |
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| Knowledge |
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| Seminar |
| Self-study of literature |
| One-to-One tutorial |
| Skills |
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| Seminar |
| Self-study of literature |
| One-to-One tutorial |
| assessment methods |
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| Knowledge |
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| Oral exam |
| Seminar work |
| Skills |
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| Oral exam |
| Seminar work |
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Recommended literature
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Aminzade, R. Race, Nation, and Citizenship in Post-Colonial Africa. The Case of Tanzania. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
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Aquilar, M. Being Oromo in Kenya. Trenton, Africa World Press, 1998.
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Bourdillon, M. The Shona Peoples.. Harare: Mambo Press., 2004.
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Donham, D. History, Power, Ideology: Central Issues in Marxism and Anthropology. Los Angeles, 1999.
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Eriksen, Thomas Hylland. Ethnicity and nationalism. London : Pluto Press, 2002. ISBN 0-7453-1887-8.
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Falola, T. and Mbah, E. Contemporary Africa: Challenges and Opportunities. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
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Freeman, D. - Pankhurst, A. Living on the Edge. Marginalized Minorities of Craftworkers and Hunters in Southern Ethiopia.. Addis Ababa: Addis Ababa University Press, 2001.
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Graham, M. Contemporary Africa. London: Red Globe Press, 2018.
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Kandert, Josef; Kodeš, Jiří. Afrika. Praha : MF, 1984.
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Sellstroem, T. Africa in the Indian ocean. Islands of Ebb and Flow. Leiden: Brill, 2015.
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Sheriff, A. Slaves, Spices and Ivory in Zanzibar. Oxford: James Currey, 2002.
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Van Walraven, K. The Yearning for Relief. A History of Sawaba Movement in Niger. Leiden: Brill, 2013.
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Zegeye, A. - Pausewang, S. Ethiopia in Change. London: British Academic Press, 1994.
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