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Course description
Department/Unit / Abbreviation
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KSKA
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MANEV
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Academic Year
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2024/2025
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Academic Year
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2024/2025
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Title
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Anthropology of Europe
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Form of course completion
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Examination
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Form of course completion
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Examination
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Accredited / Credits
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Yes,
5
Cred.
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Type of completion
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Combined
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Type of completion
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Combined
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Time requirements
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Lecture
1
[HRS/WEEK]
Seminar
1
[HRS/WEEK]
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Course credit prior to examination
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No
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Course credit prior to examination
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No
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Automatic acceptance of credit before examination
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No
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Included in study average
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YES
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Language of instruction
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English
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Occ/max
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Automatic acceptance of credit before examination
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No
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Summer semester
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0 / 20
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0 / 0
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0 / 0
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Included in study average
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YES
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Winter semester
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0 / -
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0 / -
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0 / -
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Repeated registration
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NO
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Repeated registration
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NO
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Timetable
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Yes
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Semester taught
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Summer semester
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Semester taught
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Summer semester
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Minimum (B + C) students
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not determined
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Optional course |
Yes
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Optional course
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Yes
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Language of instruction
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English
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Internship duration
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0
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No. of hours of on-premise lessons |
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Evaluation scale |
A|B|C|D|E|F |
Periodicity |
každý rok
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Periodicita upřesnění |
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Fundamental theoretical course |
No
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Fundamental course |
Yes
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Fundamental theoretical course |
No
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Evaluation scale |
A|B|C|D|E|F |
Substituted course
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KSKA/ANEV
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Preclusive courses
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N/A
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Prerequisite courses
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N/A
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Informally recommended courses
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N/A
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Courses depending on this Course
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N/A
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Histogram of students' grades over the years:
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Course objectives:
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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.
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Requirements on student
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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.
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Content
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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?
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Activities
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Fields of study
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Guarantors and lecturers
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Literature
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Basic:
SKALNÍK, P. (ed.). Anthropology of Europe. Teaching and Research. Prague: Set Out, 2005.
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Basic:
SHORE, C. Building Europe. The Cultural Politics of European Integration. London: Routledge, 2000.
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Basic:
HOLÝ, L. Malý český člověk a skvělý český národ. Praha: SLON, 2001.
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Basic:
BUCHOWSKI, M. Reluctant Capitalists. Class and Culture in a Local Community in Western Poland. Berlin: Centre Marc Bloch, 1997.
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Further literature:
NIEDERMUELLER, P., STOCKLUND, B. (eds). Europe. Cultural Construction and Reality. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2001.
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Further literature:
KANDERT, J. Každodenní život vesničanů středního Slovenska všedesátých až osmdesátých letech 20.století. Praha: Karolinum, 2004.
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Further literature:
ABELES, M. La vie quotidienne au Parlément européen. Paris: Hachette, 1992.
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Further literature:
HANN, C.M. (ed.). Postsocialism. Ideal, Ideologies and Practices in Eurasia. London: Routledge, 2000.
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Further literature:
HANN, C.M. (ed.). Socialism. Ideals, Ideology and Social Practice. London: Routledge, 1973.
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Further literature:
SCHEFFEL, D. Svinia in White and Black. Peterborough : Broadview Press, 2005.
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Further literature:
GODDARD, SHORE, LLOBERA (eds.). The Anthropology of Europe: Identity and Boudaries in Conflict. Oxford: Berg, 1994.
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Further literature:
HANN, CH. , SÁRKÁNY, M. The Great Transformation in Rural Hungary. In Hann a kol. The Post-Socialist Agrarian Question. Muenster: LIT, 2003.
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Further literature:
TORSELLO, D. Trust, Property and Social Change in a Southern Slovakian Village. Muenster: LIT, 2003.
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Recommended:
SKALNÍK, P. (ed). Dolní Roveň: poločas výzkumu/Dolní Roveň: Research at Half-time. Pardubice: University of Pardubice, 2004.
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Recommended:
DELANTY, G. Inventing Europe. Idea, Identity, Reality. New York: St.Martin´s Press, 1995.
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Recommended:
SKALNÍK, P. (ed). Sociální antropologie obce Dolní Roveň. Pardubice: University of Pardubice, 2005.
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Recommended:
GINZBURG, C. Sýr a červi. Praha: ARGO, 1999.
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Recommended:
VERDERY, K. What Was Socialism and What Comes Next?. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.
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Prerequisites - other information about course preconditions |
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Competences acquired |
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. |
Teaching methods |
- Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing)
- Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming)
- Work with text (with textbook, with book)
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Assessment methods |
- Oral examination
- Home assignment evaluation
- Student performance assessment
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