ETBA11 Selected Issues in Material Culture

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2008
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Miroslav Válka, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Miroslav Válka, Ph.D.
Department of European Ethnology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Martina Maradová
Timetable
Wed 8:20–9:55 J31
Prerequisites (in Czech)
ETBA02 Introduction to Ethnology || ETBA04 History of Ethnology
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course's main objective is to provide an insight into issues related to traditional agriculture as the basic form of employment and the principal way of getting one's livelihood in pre-industrial society. Students will learn about one of the most important areas of ethnographic research on the basis of ethnographic material supplemented with findings from other disciplines.
Syllabus
  • Agriculture as the basic form of employment and the principal way of getting one's livelihood.
  • Ethnographic research supplemented with findings from other disciplines.
  • Types of land reclaiming and land tilling systems.
  • Tilling equipment from the historical development point of view, ploughing equipment typology.
  • Growing of cereals and industrial crops (flex, hemp, row crops).
  • Viticulture and wine-making: traditional technologies, instruments used (knives, presses), service structures (cellars, press houses).
  • Cattle-growing issues with an emphasis on types of yoking, their typology in the European setting.
  • Mountain sheep breeding (Alpine farming).
Literature
  • MOSZYŃSKI, Kazimierz. Kultura ludowa Słowian. Wyd. 2. Warszawa: Książka i Wiedza, 1967. info
  • Československá vlastivěda III. Lidová kultura. Praha, 1986, p. 55-103. info
  • BERANOVÁ, Magdalena. Zemědělství starých Slovanů. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 1980, 395 s. URL info
  • FROLEC, Václav. Jihomoravské vinohradnictví : [tradice a současnost]. 2. přeprac. vyd. Brno: Blok, 1984, 218 s. info
  • VONDRUŠKA, Vlastimil. Slovník starého zemědělského nářadí, nástrojů a strojů : (1750-1914). Roztoky u Prahy: Středočeské muzeum, 1989, 247 s. info
  • SLAVKOVSKÝ, Peter. Agrárna kultúra Slovenska : premeny v čase. 1. vyd. Bratislava: Veda, vydavateľstvo Slovenskej akadémie vied, 2002, 237 s. ISBN 8022407178. info
  • BROUČEK, Stanislav and Richard JEŘÁBEK. Lidová kultura. Národopisná encyklopedie Čech, Moravy a Slezska. Biografická část. (Folk culture.). Praha: Mladá fronta, 2007, 284 pp. ISBN 978-80-204-1711-4. info
Assessment methods
lectures, reading, written examination
Language of instruction
Czech
Follow-Up Courses
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2020.
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