SANb1009 Political and economic anthropology

Fakulta sociálních studií
jaro 2021
Rozsah
1/1/0. 6 kr. Ukončení: zk.
Vyučující
PhDr. Patrick Laviolette, PhD. (přednášející)
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PhDr. Patrick Laviolette, PhD.
Katedra sociologie – Fakulta sociálních studií
Kontaktní osoba: PhDr. Patrick Laviolette, PhD.
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Katedra sociologie – Fakulta sociálních studií
Předpoklady
Ability to read academic texts in English
Omezení zápisu do předmětu
Předmět je nabízen i studentům mimo mateřské obory.
Mateřské obory/plány
předmět má 13 mateřských oborů, zobrazit
Cíle předmětu
The aim of the course is to introduce students to key themes and debates in economic and political anthropology. The course is designed in two blocks. Firts part cofuses on political anthropology and explains anthropological approach to power and politics. The first part of the course tackles topics lik power and politics in traditional and current societies, colonialism and postcolonialism, ideology, governmentality, symbolic power and biopolitics. The second block focuses on economic anthropology and introduces students to various conceptualisations of economic practices in social anthropology.
Výstupy z učení
At the end of the course students shuold be able to understand and explain different patterns of power and of economic behaviour. They should acquire and anthropological approach to economic and political behaviour and organizations ant to their mutual relationships. They should get a knowledge of ethnographic works in these subdisciplines.
Osnova
  • 1. Introduction. Maximalist and minimalist understanding of what political is. 2. Power and legitimacy; power and social stratification 3. Stateless societies, early and traditional state 4. Genesis of modern state 5. Byrocracy and Gevernmentality 6. Nationalism 7. Reading week. Reading and preparing anotation. 8. Cultural interpretations of economic behaviour, dilemas of economic anthropology 9. Debate of formalists and substantivists 10. Economic anthropology after the debate. 11. Money, market, finances 12.Capitalism and modernity 13. Global capitalism and world system
Literatura
    povinná literatura
  • HANN, C. M. a Keith HART. Economic anthropology : history, ethnography, critique. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2011, x, 206. ISBN 9780745644837. info
    doporučená literatura
  • A handbook of economic anthropology. Edited by James G. Carrier. Northhampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2005, xvi, 584. ISBN 1845429524. info
  • WILK, Richard R. Economies and cultures : foundations of economic anthropology. Boulder, Colo.: WestviewPress, 1996, xvii, 189. ISBN 0813320585. info
  • The social life of things :commodities in cultural perspective. Edited by Arjun Appadurai. 1st ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986, xiv, 329 s. ISBN 0-521-35726-8. info
    neurčeno
  • LEWELLEN, Ted C. Political anthropology : an introduction. 3rd ed. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2003, xii, 262. ISBN 0897898915. info
  • KURTZ, Donald V. Political anthropology : power and paradigms. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 2001, viii, 251. ISBN 0813338042. info
  • BALANDIER, Georges. Politická antropologie : Anthropologie politigue (Orig.). Praha: Dauphin, 2000, 285 s. ISBN 80-86019-90-X. info
  • Political anthropology. Edited by Marc J. Swartz - Victor Witter Turner - Arthur Tuden. 1st pub. Chicago: Aldine publishing company, 1966, viii, 309. info
Výukové metody
Lectures, class discussion, critical readings, group project
Metody hodnocení
- 2 tests
- written examination
- essay
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
Informace učitele
The up-to-date sylabus is available in the IS system of the course each semester.
Další komentáře
Studijní materiály
Předmět je vyučován každoročně.
Výuka probíhá každý týden.
Předmět je zařazen také v obdobích jaro 2022, jaro 2023.