FSS:SAN210 Social Anthropology of Local C - Course Information
SAN210 Social Anthropology of Local Cultures: Czechs in Romania
Faculty of Social StudiesSpring 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
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2009, recent)
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