ETBA115 Selected Issues in Material Culture

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2022
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Miroslav Válka, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. et Mgr. Eva Chovancová (assistant)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Daniel Drápala, Ph.D.
Department of European Ethnology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Martina Maradová
Supplier department: Department of European Ethnology – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Wed 8:00–9:40 J31
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
The course in introduces the issue of traditional farming and its genesis in European space to the students. The explication will focus on the major forms and techniques used in traditional agriculture and the socio-cultural context of their application or transformations.
Learning outcomes
At the end of this lecture course students should be able to identify traditional agriculture as the basic form of employment and the principal way of getting one's livelihood in pre-industrial society. Students should be able to define individual forms and techniques of traditional agriculture.
Syllabus
  • 1. Agriculture as the basic form of employment and the principal way of getting one's livelihood.
  • 2. Ethnographic research supplemented with findings from other disciplines.
  • 3. Types of land reclaiming and land tilling systems.
  • 4. Tilling equipment from the historical development point of view, ploughing equipment typology.
  • 5. Growing of cereals and industrial crops (flex, hemp, row crops).
  • 6. Viticulture and wine-making: traditional technologies, instruments used (knives, presses), service structures (cellars, press houses).
  • 7. Cattle-growing issues with an emphasis on types of yoking, their typology in the European setting.
  • 8. Mountain sheep breeding (Alpine farming).
Literature
    recommended literature
  • VÁLKA, Miroslav. Homo faber. Tradiční zemědělství a lidová výroba (Homo faber. Traditional farming and handmade production). 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2014, 153 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-7112-4. Digitální knihovna FF MU info
  • BROUČEK, Stanislav and Richard JEŘÁBEK. Lidová kultura. Národopisná encyklopedie Čech, Moravy a Slezska. Biografická část. (Folk culture.). Praha: Mladá fronta, 2007, 284 pp. ISBN 978-80-204-1711-4. info
  • SLAVKOVSKÝ, Peter. Agrárna kultúra Slovenska : premeny v čase. 1. vyd. Bratislava: Veda, vydavateľstvo Slovenskej akadémie vied, 2002, 237 s. ISBN 8022407178. info
  • VONDRUŠKA, Vlastimil. Slovník starého zemědělského nářadí, nástrojů a strojů : (1750-1914). Roztoky u Prahy: Středočeské muzeum, 1989, 247 s. info
  • Československá vlastivěda III. Lidová kultura. Praha, 1986, p. 55-103. info
  • FROLEC, Václav. Jihomoravské vinohradnictví : [tradice a současnost]. 2. přeprac. vyd. Brno: Blok, 1984, 218 s. info
  • BERANOVÁ, Magdalena. Zemědělství starých Slovanů. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 1980, 395 s. URL info
  • MOSZYŃSKI, Kazimierz. Kultura ludowa Słowian. Wyd. 2. Warszawa: Książka i Wiedza, 1967. info
Teaching methods
Lectures, readings.
Assessment methods
Written examination.
Language of instruction
Czech
Follow-Up Courses
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: Kombinované studium 14 hodin přímé výuky v semestru.
Information about innovation of course.
This course has been innovated under the project "Faculty of Arts as Centre of Excellence in Education: Complex Innovation of Study Programmes and Fields at FF MU with Regard to the Requirements of the Knowledge Economy“ – Reg. No. CZ.1.07/2.2.00/28.0228, which is cofinanced by the European Social Fond and the national budget of the Czech Republic.

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The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2020.
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