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Course description
Department/Unit / Abbreviation
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KSKA
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MEKAN
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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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Economic Anthropology
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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,
6
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
2
[HRS/WEEK]
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Course credit prior to examination
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Yes
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Course credit prior to examination
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Yes
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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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Czech, 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 / 15
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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 / 20
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0 / 0
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0 / 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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Czech, 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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Evaluation scale for credit before examination |
S|N |
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 |
Evaluation scale for credit before examination |
S|N |
Substituted course
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KSKA/EKAN
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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:
Graphic PNG
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XLS
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Course objectives:
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The objective of the course is to acquire the theoretical knowledge of economic systems and institutions of traditional and modern societies in time as well in space.
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Requirements on student
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Compulsory attendance at the lectures. Type of assessment: written exam.
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Content
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Historical beginnings of economy and its connection to other social sciences. Economic terminology and indicators. Introduction to economic anthropology and definition of the subject matter. Substantivism, formalism, neo-Marxism, feminism. Forms of provision, production and division of labour. Economic behaviour as social behaviour, rationalisation, economisation, altruism, models of decision-making. Barter trade, the issue of a present and economy. Individual forms of distribution and relationship towards organisation and institutions of the society. Symbolic economic anthropology. Political economy: colonialism, theory of dependence and impact on current situation. Poverty, economic development and globalisation.
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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:
KOTTAK, C. P. Culture and "Economic Development". American Anthropologist 92(3):723-731, 1990.
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Basic:
WILK, R. R. Economies and Cultures: Foundations of Economic Anthropology. Westview Press: Boulder, 1996.
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Basic:
DURKHEIM, É. Společenská dělba práce. Brno: Centrum pro studium demokracie a kultury, 2004.
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Recommended:
MATTHEW, R. Psychology and Economics. Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Association, vol. 36(1), pages 11-46, 1998.
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Recommended:
GODELIER, M. The Enigma of the Gift. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.
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Prerequisites - other information about course preconditions |
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Competences acquired |
Students will be presented to the pros and cons of application of economic patterns and theories of the market on non-market society. The questions of economic discrimination , political power and solution of poverty will be discussed. Students will be able to apply the knowledge in the context of applied anthropology for solution of the poverty and inequality problems. |
Teaching methods |
- Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing)
- Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming)
- Work with text (with textbook, with book)
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Assessment methods |
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