FSS:SAN105 Ethnography and Fieldwork - Course Information
SAN105 Ethnography and Fieldwork
Faculty of Social StudiesSpring 2013
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/2. 9 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Michal Nekorjak, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Zuzana Sekeráková Búriková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. Mgr. et Mgr. Adéla Souralová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Jana Obrovská, Ph.D. (assistant) - Guaranteed by
- doc. Mgr. Eva Šlesingerová, Ph.D.
Department of Sociology – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Ing. Soňa Enenkelová
Supplier department: Division of Social Anthropology – Department of Sociology – Faculty of Social Studies - Timetable
- Thu 12:00–13:30 U41, Thu 14:00–15:40 U43 and each even Thursday 8:00–9:40 P24
- Timetable of Seminar Groups:
SAN105/2: No timetable has been entered into IS. - Prerequisites (in Czech)
- SAN101 Soc. Anthropology-lectures
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 54 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/54, only registered: 0/54, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/54 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Social Anthropology (programme FSS, B-HE) (2)
- Social Anthropology (programme FSS, B-HS)
- Social Anthropology (programme FSS, B-KS) (2)
- Social Anthropology (programme FSS, B-MS)
- Social Anthropology (programme FSS, B-PL) (2)
- Social Antropology (programme FSS, B-PS) (2)
- Social Anthropology (programme FSS, B-SO) (2)
- Social Anthropology (programme FSS, B-SP) (2)
- Course objectives
- The main objectives of the course are the following:
informing about fieldwork and about ethnographic genre;
acquaintining students with the classical ethnographic texts;
giving the students anthropological terminology of ethnographic research;and
learning thinking in logic of ethnographic research. - Syllabus
- I. Ethnography as translation of a picture to the text
- II. Relevance of ethnography. Participated observation vs. observed participation. Plurality of ethnographies (positivism, phenomenology, praxeology)
- III. Person and method, research reflexivity. Ethnography as a genre
- IV. Issue and method
- V. Starting fieldwork: solitude of an ethnographer
- VI. Record and utterance. Fieldnotes, data presentations, anonymization
- VII. Generalization of knowledge. How many interview we should make?
- VIII. To became the Other. Question of translation
- IX. Ethnogreaphy in a research lab. Actors-network theory
- X. Crizis of ethnographic reprezentation: performance texts, new journalism, Stand Point Epistemologies
- XI. Ethnographer and "his/her" people: hierarchy and power asymmetry. Between friendship and objectivity. Research ethic
- Literature
- Fieldwork dilemmas : anthropologists in postsocialist states. Edited by Hermine G. De Soto - Nora Dudwick. Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 2000, xi, 250. ISBN 0299163741. info
- Současná filosofie sociálních věd :multikulturní přístup. Edited by Brian Fay - Jana Ogrocká. 1. vyd. Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství, 2002, 324 s. ISBN 80-86429-10-5. info
- HAMMERSLEY, Martyn and Paul ATKINSON. Ethnography : principles in practice. 3rd ed. London: Routledge, 2007, xi, 275. ISBN 9780415396042. info
- GEERTZ, Clifford. Works and lives : the anthropology as author. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988, vi, 157. ISBN 0804717478. info
- RABINOW, Paul. Reflections on fieldwork in Morocco. Edited by Pierre Bourdieu - Robert Neelly Bellah. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977, xiii, 170. ISBN 0520035291. info
- Teaching methods
- Lectures, reading, class discussion
- Assessment methods
- 3 written essys, oral exam, colloquium
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2013, recent)
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