FSS:SANb1019 Material Culture - Course Information
SANb1019 Material Culture
Faculty of Social StudiesAutumn 2024
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/1/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Kateřina Čanigová (lecturer)
Eva Kotašková, Ph.D. (lecturer) - Guaranteed by
- Eva Kotašková, Ph.D.
Department of Sociology – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Ing. Soňa Enenkelová
Supplier department: Department of Sociology – Faculty of Social Studies - Timetable
- Wed 12:00–13:40 U43
- Prerequisites
- ! SANb2033 Material Culture
Passing SANb1003 and SANb1005 - Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 11/25, only registered: 1/25 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Social Anthropology (programme FSS, B-SAN) (5)
- Course objectives
- To be able to uderstand basic concepts of material culture from anthropological perspective.
- Learning outcomes
- Analyse current accademic knowledge in material culture from the perspective so social anthropology
- Syllabus
- 1. Introduction 2. Social life of things 3. How to research objects 4. Comodity, comodification and gifts 5. Material Culture and Social Differentiation 6. Overeproduction and consumption 7. Reading week 8. Material culture of everyday life: power and the state 9. Student presentations 10. Museusm, art and its effect 11. Visit to Roma Museum 12. Colonialism and materiality of body 13. Materiality of living: architecture and home
- Literature
- WOODWARD, Ian. Understanding material culture. 1st pub. Los Angeles: Sage, 2007, vii, 191. ISBN 9780761942269. info
- The social life of things : commodities in cultural perspective. Edited by Arjun Appadurai. First published. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986, xiv, 329. ISBN 9780521357265. info
- Teaching methods
- Lectures, seminar, student workhosps, presentation, working with text
- Assessment methods
- Student presentation, coursework, final project draft
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (recent)
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