SAN210 Social Anthropology of Local Cultures: Czechs in Romania

Faculty of Social Studies
Spring 2009
Extent and Intensity
0/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Pavel Klvač (lecturer)
doc. Mgr. Eva Šlesingerová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Eva Šlesingerová, Ph.D.
Division of Social Anthropology – Department of Sociology – Faculty of Social Studies
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
The study course presents problems of interdisciplinary research of the local culture - the Czech minority in Romanian Banat. Special attention is given to analysis of selected culture phenomenons – cultural adaptation, ethnic and religious identity, process of modernisation, life style, social relationship, ecological relations, dissolution of a traditional community, reemigration of czech compatriots to the Czech Republic after 1989, their adaptation to the new home. The part of the course is a methodological preparation.
Syllabus
  • 1. Introduction to course
  • 2. Extincting Europeans
  • 3. The Czechs in Romania
  • 4. The story of landscape - the story of people
  • 5. Multicultural landscape
  • 6. Between the tradition and modernity
  • 7. Social changes after 1989
  • 8. The Romainan Postcommunism
  • 9. On the road between the worlds
  • 10. Us and the others - the frontier of the identity
  • 11. The magic of tradition
  • 12. Home, at last?
  • 13. Final discussion
Literature
  • GAUSS, Karl-Markus. Vymírající Evropané : putování ze Sefardy do Sarajeva, za Němci z Kočevje, za Arbereši, za Lužickými Srby a Arumuny. Translated by Zlata Kufnerová, Photo by Kurt Kaindl. Praha: Vitalis, 2003, 197 s. ISBN 8072531220. info
  • Anthropology, development and modernities : exploring discourses, counter-tendencies and violence. Edited by Alberto Arce - Norman Long. 1st pub. London: Routledge, 2000, xvi, 232 s. ISBN 0-415-20500-X. info
  • BURNS, Peter. An introduction to tourism and anthropology. 1st pub. London: Routledge, 1999, xii, 188. ISBN 0415186277. info
  • DONNANM, Hastings and Thomas M. WILSON. Borders :frontiers of identity, nation and state. 1st pub. Oxford: Berg, 1999, xiv, 182 s. ISBN 1-85973-246-1. info
  • Anthropological perspectives on local development : knowledge and sentiments in conflict. Edited by Simone Abram - Jacqueline Waldren. 1st pub. London: Routledge, 1998, x, 166. ISBN 0415182786. info
Assessment methods
(a) presentation from the given list of literature (b) case study in five pages (c) the examination from texts on the list of literature
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2006, Spring 2008, Spring 2010.
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