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Lecturer(s)
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Course content
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1. Ancient anthropological thinking and the myth of the noble savage 2. Institutionalisation of a modern anthropology 3. Founders of modern cultural and social anthropology 4. American cultural anthropology before WWII 5. Sociology, French sociology school and ethnology 6. Post-WWII British and American anthropology, Manchester school; theory of ethnicity; neo-evolucionism; cultural ecology; etc. 7. Structuralism in anthropology; semiotics 8. New ethnography; cognitive anthropology; symbolism; structural marxism; political economy 9. Literary shift in anthropology; post-colonial discourse; reflexive ethnography; post-modern anthropology 10. Theory of acting; poststructuralism and constructivism 11. Critical anthropology; modernity; complexity; globalisation 12. Contemporary anthropology and review
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming), Work with text (with textbook, with book), Work-related activities
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- 67 hours per semester
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Learning outcomes
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The introductory course Theory and history of Anthropology is aimed to familiarize students with general development of anthropological thinking. In the beginning, students are introduced to the proto-anthropological thinking and to major topics, questions and inspirations of anthropological thinking before its institutionalisation. Then after, the major milestones of the history of institutionalized anthropology are presented. It includes a chronology and presentation of major characters of different modern anthropological methods, theories, schools, and streams in American, British, French, and German environment (including the outline of Czech tradition). The course's aim is to cover all major developments of anthropology from ancient to present. The chronology includes predominantly the anthropology after the World war two, such as structuralism, new ethnography (cognitive, symbolic, interpretative), phenomenon of ethnicity, political economy, post-structuralism, post-colonialism and critical anthropology.
The students will be familiar with social sciences' history, terminology and theory of anthropology and competent in connecting historical information with major figures in the field. They will be able to describe and explain the evolution of anthropological thinking, name major principles, models, schools, figures in social anthropology and will be able to understand major key words in the discipline. They will learn how to read academic writings in Czech. Students will get a knowledge for further study. They will learn to be oriented in the field of study.
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Prerequisites
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The TEDA course is compulsory course for the first-year-B.A. students in social anthropology. The only requirement is a general overview in social sciences on the high-school level.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Written examination, Home assignment evaluation, Student performance assessment
The course assignment requires succesful passing of both the credit and the exam where credit is a prerequisite for the examination. The credit is given upon fullfilling all prescribed requirements in the seminar whereas the exam is based on lecture requirements and the total score in the final test (which is based on both the seminar and the lecture content). Lecture: 1. Presence at the lectures is not required, however it is very much reccommended! 2. It is required to be prepared for each lecture (e.g. reading) 3. the student is tested by written exam which examinates knowledge from both lectures and seminars. 4. In a mid-term, students may be tested with a partial written test which is included in the total scoring. 5. The examination is written and classified as follows: 100-93% 1; 92-85% 1-; 84-80% 2; 79-75% 2-; 74-70% 3; 69 and less = 4 (rights for possible changes in the limits reserved). The total scoring includes the partial written test. Obligatory reading: Soukup, Václav: Dějiny antropologie. Praha 2004, 670 s. (selected chapters) Reading: approx. 350 p. Seminar: 1. Successful creditting from the seminar is an obligation for the examination. 2. In seminars an active attandance is required. The activity is evaluated by the leader of seminars. 3. Physical attandance in the seminar is prerequisition for being awarded with active attandance. At most, three absences are allowed. 4. If more than two physical absences apply, the student must submit a written text at least 3 norm-pages long on the topic of the missing seminar reading. The topic of the text is determined by the lecturer. Such texts are examined and can be returned for revision. The deadlines are prescribed by the leader of seminars. 5. Student must have at least 70% active attandance in seminars (that means not only physical) calculated from the total number of seminars in particular semester. Reading: approx. 400 pages.
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Recommended literature
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Murphy, Robert F. Úvod do sociální a kulturní antropologie. Praha, Slon, 2002.
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Ortner, Sherry B. Teorie v antropologii od šedesátých let. Biograf 34: 123-162., 2004.
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SOUKUP, V. Dějiny antropologie. Praha, 2004.
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Soukup, Václav. Přehled antropologických teorií kultury. Praha: Portál, 2004. ISBN 80-7178-929-1.
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