ETKA11 Selected Issues in Material Culture

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2011
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Miroslav Válka, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Miroslav Válka, Ph.D.
Department of European Ethnology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Martina Maradová
Timetable
Fri 30. 9. 9:10–10:45 J31, Fri 21. 10. 9:10–10:45 J31, Fri 11. 11. 9:10–10:45 J31, Fri 2. 12. 9:10–10:45 J31
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
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
  • Agriculture as the basic form of employment and the principal way of getting one's livelihood.
  • Ethnographic research supplemented with findings from other disciplines.
  • Types of land reclaiming and land tilling systems.
  • Tilling equipment from the historical development point of view, ploughing equipment typology.
  • Growing of cereals and industrial crops (flex, hemp, row crops).
  • Viticulture and wine-making: traditional technologies, instruments used (knives, presses), service structures (cellars, press houses).
  • Cattle-growing issues with an emphasis on types of yoking, their typology in the European setting.
  • Mountain sheep breeding (Alpine farming).
Literature
  • MOSZYŃSKI, Kazimierz. Kultura ludowa Słowian. Wyd. 2. Warszawa: Książka i Wiedza, 1967. info
  • Československá vlastivěda III. Lidová kultura. Praha, 1986, p. 55-103. info
  • BERANOVÁ, Magdalena. Zemědělství starých Slovanů. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 1980, 395 s. URL info
  • FROLEC, Václav. Jihomoravské vinohradnictví : [tradice a současnost]. 2. přeprac. vyd. Brno: Blok, 1984, 218 s. info
  • VONDRUŠKA, Vlastimil. Slovník starého zemědělského nářadí, nástrojů a strojů : (1750-1914). Roztoky u Prahy: Středočeské muzeum, 1989, 247 s. info
  • SLAVKOVSKÝ, Peter. Agrárna kultúra Slovenska : premeny v čase. 1. vyd. Bratislava: Veda, vydavateľstvo Slovenskej akadémie vied, 2002, 237 s. ISBN 8022407178. 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
Teaching methods
lectures, readings
Assessment methods
written examination
Language of instruction
Czech
Follow-Up Courses
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2010, Autumn 2012.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2011, recent)
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