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Course: Anthropology of Europe

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Course title Anthropology of Europe
Course code KSKA/ANEV
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction English
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Course availability The course is available to visiting students
Lecturer(s)
  • Uherek Zdeněk, doc. PhDr. CSc.
Course content
Why anthropology of Europe? Methodological issues of studying one's own society and continent. Historical anthropology of medieval Europe. Notable social-anthropological monographs. European ethnology in comparison with anthropology of Europe. American and British anthropology discovers Europe. Central Europe in the period of so-called "in reality existing socialism". Post-communism/post-socialism and anthropology. Repeated ethnographical and sociological studies (restudies) of communities. Anthropology of European institutions - anthropology of the European Union. Anthropology of Europe as the anthropologists´ answer to Does Europe as a socio-cultural unity exist?

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming), Work with text (with textbook, with book)
Learning outcomes
The objective of the course is to introduce the students to the currently developing discipline Anthropology of Europe. Social (or cultural) anthropology originally left the research of European societies to ethnographers, sociologists and demographs while anthropology itself concentrated on non-European societies. It was only the development of anthropological theory and methodological discussion within the anthropological community as well as the necessity to get to know better one's own society and neighbouring societies as a result of the European integration process, which lead to fast development of anthropology of Europe.
The course will familiarise students with a selection of key research and theoretical studies, which benefited greatly to the progress in learning about our continent.
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral examination, Home assignment evaluation, Student performance assessment

Compulsory attendance at the lectures (it will be monitored). 50% of the overall assessment and a condition for progressing to the examination will be a research essay, 2500 words. The topic and deadline will be specified in advance. Late submission will mean decrease of grade by 10%. Passing an oral exam will amount to 50% of the overall grade.
Recommended literature
  • ABELES, M. La vie quotidienne au Parlément européen. Paris: Hachette, 1992.
  • BUCHOWSKI, M. Reluctant Capitalists. Class and Culture in a Local Community in Western Poland. Berlin: Centre Marc Bloch, 1997.
  • DELANTY, G. Inventing Europe. Idea, Identity, Reality. New York: St.Martin´s Press, 1995.
  • GINZBURG, C. Sýr a červi. Praha: ARGO, 1999.
  • GODDARD, SHORE, LLOBERA (eds.). The Anthropology of Europe: Identity and Boudaries in Conflict. Oxford: Berg, 1994.
  • HANN, C.M. (ed.). Postsocialism. Ideal, Ideologies and Practices in Eurasia. London: Routledge, 2000.
  • HANN, C.M. (ed.). Socialism. Ideals, Ideology and Social Practice. London: Routledge, 1973.
  • HANN, CH. , SÁRKÁNY, M. The Great Transformation in Rural Hungary. In Hann a kol. The Post-Socialist Agrarian Question. Muenster: LIT, 2003.
  • HOLÝ, L. Malý český člověk a skvělý český národ. Praha: SLON, 2001.
  • KANDERT, J. Každodenní život vesničanů středního Slovenska všedesátých až osmdesátých letech 20.století. Praha: Karolinum, 2004.
  • NIEDERMUELLER, P., STOCKLUND, B. (eds). Europe. Cultural Construction and Reality. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2001.
  • SHORE, C. Building Europe. The Cultural Politics of European Integration. London: Routledge, 2000.
  • SCHEFFEL, D. Svinia in White and Black. Peterborough : Broadview Press, 2005.
  • SKALNÍK, P. (ed.). Anthropology of Europe. Teaching and Research. Prague: Set Out, 2005.
  • SKALNÍK, P. (ed). Dolní Roveň: poločas výzkumu/Dolní Roveň: Research at Half-time. Pardubice: University of Pardubice, 2004.
  • SKALNÍK, P. (ed). Sociální antropologie obce Dolní Roveň. Pardubice: University of Pardubice, 2005.
  • TORSELLO, D. Trust, Property and Social Change in a Southern Slovakian Village. Muenster: LIT, 2003.
  • VERDERY, K. What Was Socialism and What Comes Next?. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy Study plan (Version): Social Anthropology (2016) Category: Social sciences 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy Study plan (Version): Social Anthropology (2013) Category: Social sciences 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer
University of Pardubice, date of update: 21.07.2024 23:50. Data created for academic year 2016/2017