ETMB45 Kinship and customs of the life cycle in the Balkans

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2016
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Helena Bočková (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Alena Křížová, Ph.D.
Department of European Ethnology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Martina Maradová
Supplier department: Department of European Ethnology – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
each even Thursday 15:50–17:25 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
Course is focused to problems of family, family line, and relationships in Balkans. Students would realize the significance of Balkan joint (multi-generation) family as the European phenomenon, studying it in broader European and Mediterranean historical context. They would realize the versatility of relations between the family and customary law, economics, residence, settlement development, and folklore, both in rural and urban environments of the Balkans. They would be oriented in problems of family customs. They would acquire the knowledge covering evolutionary trends in Balkan family and relationship in modern and post-modern era. They would acquire current theoretical and factual knowledge concerning the studies of European historical family as well as basic ethnologic terminology. They would instill the importance of blood relations in contemporary Balkans.
Syllabus
  • 1. Social status. Functions of the family. 2. Type of European Eastern and Western families. 3. Balkan family: size, signs, types, forms. Phenomenon “zadruga” and V. S. Karadžić. Simple family. Broad family, Joint (multi-generation) family. Brother and father types of joint family. 4. Hierarchical structure. Mutual relations among members. Collective responsibility. 5. Exogamy. Wedding age. Family evolutionary cycle. 6. Division and inheritance of family property. Grandparents. Family economic. 7. Residence types with common and separated household and forms of residence. 8. Family lines in Montenegro and Albania. Vendetta. Significant families in Greek, Albanian, and Bosnian society. 9. Family names. 10. Family customs. Family and folklore. 11. Family residence. 12. Balkan Muslim family. 13. Qualitative and quantitative metamorphoses of the family in modern times. Contemporary Balkan family.
Literature
  • GOODY, Jack. Proměny rodiny v evropské historii : historicko-antropologická esej. Translated by Petra Diestlerová. Vyd. 1. Praha: Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, 2006, 229 s. ISBN 8071063967. info
  • KOMOROVSKÝ, Ján. Tradičná svadba u Slovanov. Bratislava 1976.
  • GENNEP, Arnold van. Les rites de passage : étude systématique des rites (Orig.) : Přechodové rituály : systematické studium rituálů. info
  • SKUPNIK, Jaroslav. Antropologie příbuzenství : příbuzenství, manželství a rodina v kulturněantropologické perspektivě. Vyd. 1. Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství (SLON), 2010, 402 s. ISBN 9788074190193. info
  • LANGER, Jiří and Helena BOČKOVÁ. Obydlí v Karpatech a přilehlých oblastech balkánských. Syntéza mezinárodního výzkumu (Dwellings in Carpathians at the Balkans. International research synthesis). Ostrava: Šmíra-Print, 2010, 936 pp. ISBN 978-80-87427-07-1. info
  • ERIKSEN, Thomas Hylland. Sociální a kulturní antropologie : příbuzenství, národnostní příslušnost, rituál. Translated by Hana Antonínová. Vydání první. Praha: Portál, 2008, 407 stran. ISBN 9788073674656. info
  • Malý etnologický slovník. Edited by Josef Jančář. Strážnice: Národní ústav lidové kultury, 2011, 115 s. ISBN 9788087261705. info
  • ŠVECOVÁ, Soňa and Kornélia JAKUBÍKOVÁ. Tradície slovenskej rodiny. Edited by Marta Botíková. 1. vyd. Bratislava: Veda, 1997, 242 s. ISBN 8022404616. info
  • VAKARELSKI, Christo Tomov. Bălgarski pogrebalni običai : sravnitelno izučavane. Sofija: Izdatelstvo na Bălgarskata akademija na naukite, 1990, 223 s. info
  • MURPHY, Robert Francis. Úvod do kulturní a sociální antropologie. Translated by Hana Červinková. 2. vyd. Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství, 2004, 268 s. ISBN 9788086429250. info
  • PAPOUŠEK, Dalibor. Jiří Prosecký (ed.), Encyklopedie starověkého Předního východu (Jiří Prosecký (ed.), Encyclopaedia of the Ancient Near East). Religio : revue pro religionistiku. Brno: Česká společnost pro studium náboženství, 1999, vol. 7, No 2, p. 215-217. ISSN 1210-3640. info
Teaching methods
Lectures
Assessment methods
Final exam
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2013, Autumn 2018.
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