FF:ETBA27 Excursion to History of Czech - Course Information

ETBA27 Excursion to History of Czech Ethnology

Extent and Intensity

2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).

Teacher(s)

doc. PhDr. Daniel Drápala, Ph.D. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

doc. PhDr. Miroslav Válka, Ph.D.
Department of European Ethnology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Martina Maradová
Supplier department: Department of European Ethnology – Faculty of Arts

Timetable

Tue 16:00–17:40 J31

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

• Ethnology (programme FF, B-HI) (2)
• Ethnology (programme FF, B-HS)

Course objectives

At the end of the course students should be able to identify the basic development stages of Czech ethnology from the beginnings of ethno-graphical research to the 20th century. They should be able to define the main methodological approaches, describe development trends and tendencies, name schools and significant persons, including their works.

Syllabus

• introduction, definition and historic overview of the use of terms local history/folk culture studies/ethnography/ethnology in the Czech Lands, Middle Ages, Renaissance and Baroque, Enlightenment, first attempts at a systematic study of folk culture, the role of folk culture and research into it as an integral part of the Czech national-identification movement, contribution of Slavonic studies to the establishment of local history studies, collecting activities in the 19th century, Czechoslavic Ethnographic Exhibition and the CEE generation, the constitution of ethnography as an independent scientific discipline at the end of the 19th century, ethnographic and ethnologic journals and institutions, their development and profiling in the 19th and 20th centuries, contributions of regional local history studies to ethnographic and ethnologic studies (identification of characteristics), concept of ethnographic monographs and its development in the 20th century, historic ethnography and historic anthropology, urban ethnography, developments in the discipline from the 1950s to 1970s, important personalities of German ethnography on the Czech territory and specialist interest in ethnography of German population in this country

Literature

recommended literature
• ALTMAN, Karel. Úvod do studia dějin národopisu na Moravě. 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2013, 114 s. ISBN 9788021065765. URL info

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• Lidová kultura : národopisná encyklopedie Čech, Moravy a Slezska. Edited by Stanislav Brouček - Richard Jeřábek - Dušan Holý - Václav Hubing. Vydání první. Praha: Etnologický ústav Akademie věd České republiky, v.v.i., v Praze a Ústav evropské etnologie Filozofické fakulty Masarykovy univerzity v Brně v nakladatelství Mladá fronta, 2007, 284 stran. ISBN 9788020414502. 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
• Československá vlastivěda. D. 2, Člověk. Edited by Václav Dědina. Praha: Sfinx Bohumil Janda, 1933, 623 s. : i. info

Teaching methods

lectures, homeworks, reading

Assessment methods

homeworks, written semester tests, oral examination

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

Study Materials

Information about innovation of course.

This course has been innovated under the project "Faculty of Arts as Centre of Excellence in Education: Complex Innovation of Study Programmes and Fields at FF MU with Regard to the Requirements of the Knowledge Economy“ – Reg. No. CZ.1.07/2.2.00/28.0228, which is cofinanced by the European Social Fond and the national budget of the Czech Republic.

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