JSB_SLAV64 Balkan's Traditional Family

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2020

The course is not taught in Spring 2020

Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Helena Bočková (lecturer)
PhDr. Helena Bočková (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Václav Štěpánek, Ph.D.
Department of Slavonic Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Pavel Pilch, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Slavonic Studies – Faculty of Arts
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
Course objectives
Course is focused to problems of family, family line, and kinship relations in Balkans. Students will realize the significance of Balkan joint (multi-generational) family as the European phenomenon, studying it in broader European and Mediterranean historical context. They will realize the versatility of relations between the family and customary law, economics, residence, settlement development, and folklore, both in rural and urban environments of the Balkans. They will orient themselves in family customs. They will acquire the knowledge covering evolutionary trends in Balkan family and relationship in modern and post-modern era. They will acquire current theoretical and factual knowledge about the studies of European historical family as well as basic ethnologic terminology. They will understand the importance of blood relations in contemporary Balkans.
Learning outcomes
Students will be able to orientate themselves in family customs in Balkans. They will know and be able to distinguish evolutionary trends of Balkan family and kinship in modern and post-modern era. They will be able to orientate themselves in theoretical and factual knowledge about study of the European historical family and will master ethnological terminology. Student will understand the importance of kinship relations in contemporary Balkans and will be able to work with this facts in praxis.
Syllabus
  • 1. Traditional and modern family.
  • 2. Terminology.
  • 3. Symbols and diagrams.
  • 4. Ways and methods in the study of the family.
  • 5. Typology of European historical family.
  • 6. Sources for study of traditional family in Balkans. Codified and customary law.
  • 7. Study of historical family in South-Eastern Europe.
  • 8. Traditional family of Balkans: individual and "zadruga".
  • 9. Family and tribe.
  • 10. Balkan "zadruga".
  • 11. Marriage and family.
  • 12. Muslim family.
  • 13. Kinship relations.
  • 14. Gens.
  • 15. Kins and blood revenge.
  • 16. Spiritual kinship.
  • 17. Ancestor cult.
  • 18. Customs of life cycle.
Literature
    recommended literature
  • GOODY, Jack. Proměny rodiny v evropské historii : historicko-antropologická esej. Translated by Petra Diestlerová. Vyd. 1. Praha: Nakladatelství Lidové noviny. 229 s. ISBN 8071063967. 2006. info
  • LANGER, Jiří and Helena BOČKOVÁ. Obydlí v Karpatech a přilehlých oblastech balkánských. Syntéza mezinárodního výzkumu (Dwellings in Carpathians at the Balkans. International research synthesis). Ostrava: Šmíra-Print. 936 pp. ISBN 978-80-87427-07-1. 2010. info
  • KADLEC, Karel. Rodinný nedíl čili zádruha v právu slovanském. Praha: K. Kadlec. 136 s. 1898. info
  • ERIKSEN, Thomas Hylland. Sociální a kulturní antropologie : příbuzenství, národnostní příslušnost, rituál. Translated by Hana Antonínová. Vydání první. Praha: Portál. 407 stran. ISBN 9788073674656. 2008. info
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  • HORSKÁ, Pavla, Milan KUČERA, Eduard MAUR and Milan STLOUKAL. Dětství, rodina a stáří v dějinách Evropy. Praha: Panorama. 474 s. ISBN 807038011X. 1990. info
  • SKUPNIK, Jaroslav. Antropologie příbuzenství : příbuzenství, manželství a rodina v kulturněantropologické perspektivě. Vyd. 1. Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství (SLON). 402 s. ISBN 9788074190193. 2010. info
  • VAN GENNEP, Arnold. Přechodové rituály : systematické studium rituálů. Translated by Helena Beguivinová. Praha: Lidové noviny. 201 s. ISBN 8071061786. 1997. info
  • VAKARELSKI, Christo Tomov. Bălgarski pogrebalni običai : sravnitelno izučavane. Sofija: Izdatelstvo na Bălgarskata akademija na naukite. 223 s. 1990. info
  • MURPHY, Robert Francis. Úvod do kulturní a sociální antropologie. Translated by Hana Červinková. 2. vyd. Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství. 268 s. ISBN 9788086429250. 2004. info
  • ŠAUR, Vladimír. Etymologie slovanských příbuzenských termínů. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia. 93 s. 1975. info
  • Narodna kultura Srba u XIX i XX veku : vodič kroz stalnu postavku. Beograd: Etnografski muzeǰ u Beogradu. 393 s. ISBN 8678910135. 2003. info
  • Supek, Olga. Women΄s Entrepreneurship and the Dissolution of Zadruga in 19th Century Slavonia. Studia ethnologica Croatica 7–8, 1996, s. 259–266.
  • Zrnić, Lidija. Obiteljska zadruga Staver. Građa. Studia ethnologica Croatica 10–11, 1999, s. 165–184.
  • Čapo Žmegač, Jasna. Konstrukcija modela obitelji u Europi i povijest obitelji u Hrvatskoj. Narodna umjetnost 33, 1996, č. 2, s. 179–196.
  • Muraj, Aleksandra. Samostalnost i / ili podređenost: ambivalencija društvenog položaja žena na Zlarinu. Etnološka tribina 29, 1999, s. 219–229.
  • Divac, Zorica. An Ethnological Look at the Issue of Prolonged Adolescence. Glasnik Etnografskog instituta 57, 2009, č. 2, s. 123–129.
Teaching methods
Lecture, e-learning, study of literature.
Assessment methods
Regular attendance (70 %). Oral exam.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught: every week.
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