Course: Aboriginals and Globalization

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Course title Aboriginals and Globalization
Course code KSKA/POSGM
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminar
Level of course Master
Year of study 2
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Šavelková Lívia, PhDr. Ph.D.
Course content
Definition of original inhabitants of the world - problems of terminology in the Czech environment (indigenous, aboriginal. 4th World, native, First Nations, etc.). Colonisation and its influence - legal acts defining original inhabitants. Colonisation and its influence - epidemics. Constitution of the 4th World in international politics I - UN. Constitution of the 4th World in international politics II - UN. Decade of the original inhabitants declared by the UN - 1995-2004. Constitution of the 4th World in individual national politics. Media owned by original inhabitants, internet. Ownership of "specific knowledge of the original inhabitants" and its codification in the UN. (spirituality, knowledge of original medicine, etc.). Strategy of survival and formation of nationalism. Anthropology and original inhabitants in the past. Anthropology and original inhabitants in the present. Narrativity. Ethno-tourism and New Age movement.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming), Work with text (with textbook, with book), Methods of individual activities
Learning outcomes
The objective of the course is to present a detailed view on the problems of colonialism and post-colonialism in connection with the original inhabitants of America, Australia, Russia, Norway, Japan, etc., who are internationally called as the inhabitants of the "fourth world".
Students will be able to undestand to position of the Indigenous peoples in the majority society, not only on the level of states, in which they live, but also on the level of broader international community (e.g. UN). Strategies (interpretation of law, different kinds of resistance, media, education, etc.) by which they keep continuity of their existence, the influence of anthropologists' work on keeping, destruction and forming of interpretation of their identity will be discussed. Nationalism and criteria, by which they constitute the belonging to their group under the influence of globalisation, will be explained.
Prerequisites
Introductory course, no specific requirements.

Assessment methods and criteria
Written examination, Home assignment evaluation

Seminar paper based on the reference literature, range 10 standard pages, by the week 7, topic needs to be chosen and approved. Presentation of group work.
Recommended literature
  • ALFRED, G. Heeding the Voices of our Ancestors. OUP, 1995.
  • BAUMAN, Z. Globalizace. Praha: Mladá fronta, 2000.
  • BIOLSI, T., ZIMMERMAN, L. J. Indians and Anthropologists. Vine Deloria Jr. And the Critique of Anthropology. Tuscon: The University of Arizona Press, 1997.
  • Comaroff, John L.. Ethnicity, Inc.. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-226-11472-9.
  • DYCK, N. Indigenous Peoples and the Nation-State. Fourth World Politics in Canada, Australia and Norway. Canada: Memorial University fo Newfounland, 1985.
  • FLANAGAN, T. First Nations? Second Thoughts. Canada: McGill-Queen´s University Press, 2000.
  • HOWITT, R. Resources, Nations and Indigenous Peoples. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.
  • CHURCHILL, W. From a Native Son. Selected Essays on Indigenism, 1985-1995. Boston, Massachusetts: South End Press, 1996.
  • MANDER, J. V nepřítomnosti posvátného. Brno: Doplněk, 2003.
  • MANUEL, G., POSLUNS, M. The Fourth World. An Indian Reality. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1974.
  • MARCUS, A. Relocating Eden. The Image and Politics of Inuit Exile in the Canadian Arctic. USA: University Press of New England, 1995.
  • MARCUS, G., FISCHER, M. Anthropology as Cultural Critique. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1986.
  • RAZACK, S. Race, Space, and the Law. Toronto: Between the Lines, 2002.
  • Smith, Linda Tuhiwai. Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples. London and New York, 1999. ISBN 1856496244.
  • YOUNG, R. Postcolonialism. An historical Introduction. Blackwell Publishing, 2001.


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 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy Study plan (Version): Social Anthropology (2013) Category: Social sciences 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Winter