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Code:
YBAJ245 |
Lecturer:
Jakoubková Budilová,L. |
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Semester:
Summer
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Schedule:
mon 10:00 - 11:20, room YT032 (Faculty of Humanities, Pátkova 2137/5, Praha 8 - Libeň)
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The course will introduce the ways kinship has been conceptualized in social anthropology. Students will learn about anthropological discussions on important concepts like nature and nurture, consanguinity and affinity, or unilineal and cognatic descent. The ways of conceptualizing relatedness in cross-cultural perspective will be discussed, from the Western notion based on the reference to biological reproduction to milk kinship, blood brotherhood, godparenthood, or “chosen kinship”. Variety of possibilities of the forms of marriage and family households will be presented. Students will read important texts on anthropological analyses of kinship terminology, strengths and weaknesses of the genealogical method and the new reproductive technologies. |
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Code:
YBAJ175 |
Lecturer:
Halbich,M. |
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Semester:
Summer
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Schedule:
wed 13:00 - 14:20, room YT221 (Faculty of Humanities, Pátkova 2137/5, Praha 8 - Libeň)
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The aim of the course is to introduce tourism as a multifaceted global phenomenon, which is mainly related to travel in travel-for-leisure and as such offers a range of interesting research topics across different disciplines. Tourism-oriented ethnographic research has come a long way from the almost total disinterest of anthropologists, who have ignored tourism and tourists in their research, to its gradual inclusion in corpus of courses in many social anthropology, sociology, etc. departments around the world. Tourism is nowadays usually seen as an example of global currents that blur traditional territorial, social and cultural boundaries and creating their various hybrid forms. Their objectives are clearly adapting very quickly to global trends and the global market, but at the same time they seek to maintain or even increase their local differences. This conflict of the “global” with the “local” then raises the question of how this “local” is created or reshaped through the practices of “touristified representations”. On the one hand, they play a key role in these processes global marketing companies and national and local authorities, which are jointly involved in creating and selling image of certain destinations. On the other hand, however, it is tourism that, to a greater or lesser extent, generates the for transforming the local. In this way, tourism can be seen as a dynamic process that helps to renew competing socio-culturally defined local identities. |
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Code:
YBAJ204 |
Lecturer:
Pfaus,J. |
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Semester:
Summer
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Schedule:
tue 16:00 - 17:20, room YT003 (Faculty of Humanities, Pátkova 2137/5, Praha 8 - Libeň)
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Follow-up course to Introduction to the Brain. This course explores the neural mechanisms that mediate motivated behaviors. We will begin by reading a seminal book on the topic, Motivational Systems, by Frederick Toates, to introduce concepts such as goal-directed behavior and incentive motivation, and heuristics regarding how behaviors can be broken down into motivationally distinct components. We will examine how the "pull" of incentives in the external world compares and relates to the "push" of drive states within the organism, and how these concepts guide our approach to understanding the biological bases of motivation. We will then consider the neuroanatomy and neurochemistry of behaviors directed toward keeping the physical homeostasis of the organism in balance: drinking, feeding, temperature regulation, biological rhythms, and the repercussions of stimuli or states in which these systems are altered. This will be followed by discussions of "non-homeostatic" behaviors like sex, parental behavior, and aggression, and the manner in which these behaviors obey very similar neurochemical rules. We will then consider how these "natural" examples of motivated behaviors relate to pleasure, reward, and drug addiction. |
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Code:
YBAJ024 |
Lecturer:
Heřmanský,M. |
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Semester:
Summer
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Schedule:
tue 13:00 - 14:20, room YT032 (Faculty of Humanities, Pátkova 2137/5, Praha 8 - Libeň)
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The course will introduce students to selected issues in sociocultural anthropology through the means of reading and interpretation of anthropological papers. It aims to develop critical anthropological thinking and interpretiveskills. Each class will deal with one controversial issue in anthropology which remains unresolved. Each issue will be presented in two papers holding antagonist positions. Students will be expected to read both papers designated for each week in advance, before each class, and comprehend them to that extent to be able to discuss them in class. |
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Code:
YBAJ177 |
Lecturer:
Vondráček,J. |
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Semester:
Summer
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Schedule:
wed 11:30 - 12:50, room YT221 (Faculty of Humanities, Pátkova 2137/5, Praha 8 - Libeň)
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In this seminar we will analyze three key aspects of the history of Nazi Germany and the Second World War: Nazi domination, occupation and the war economy. We will focus on Nazi military expansion until 1945. In this context we will take closer look at the German war of annihilation (Vernichtungskrieg) and the Holocaust in the east. Although terror and mass murder played a key role in Nazi policy, we will also study how the Nazi policy differed in the east and west towards local populations and how this policy was connected to the war economy. The seminar will be strongly text-based. You will be asked to read one to two texts and answer in-depth questions at each session. |
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Code:
YBAJ243 |
Lecturer:
Novák,A. |
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Semester:
Summer
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Schedule:
wed 16:00 - 17:20, room YT220 (Faculty of Humanities, Pátkova 2137/5, Praha 8 - Libeň)
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Critique, in the most general sense, is a mode of investigation meant to challenge ideas and discover how they stand up to scrutiny. In a narrower sense, the ‘critical tradition’ is a specific modality that descends to us formally from the 18th century, beginning with figures in the Enlightenment, most notably Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804), continuing through to modern and post-modern thought exemplified in movements like Critical Theory, semiotics, and literary theory. In this course, we will survey this tradition with a specific focus on ethics and aesthetics. What is the role of art, and what can it disclose to us about the human condition, society, and our ethical commitments? How does society structure our moral and aesthetic sensibilities? How are value systems related to faculties like reason and sentiment? What normative implications follow from our understanding thereof? |
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Code:
YBAJ244 |
Lecturer:
Kolářová,M. |
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Semester:
Summer
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Schedule:
tue 14:30 - 15:50, room YT212 (Faculty of Humanities, Pátkova 2137/5, Praha 8 - Libeň)
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Do you want to try out qualitative research methods in the real world? Understand the differences between quantitative and qualitative research methods in Social Sciences? Learn how to conduct an interview, observation or a focus group? Understand and analyse the perception of other people? This introductory course is designed for students from 2nd to 4th semester, and it has three primary aims: 1. It aims to give students a grounding in the theoretical and practical application of qualitative research methods in the social sciences. 2. The course will prepare students for the methodological part of the Comprehensive Exam in Social Sciences (CESS). 3. Completing this course offers a first step towards the skills students need to design and conduct their own research. |
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Code:
YBAJ214 |
Lecturer:
Hopkins,B. |
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Semester:
Summer
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Schedule:
thu 14:30 - 15:50, room YT117 (Faculty of Humanities, Pátkova 2137/5, Praha 8 - Libeň)
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The renowned British mathematician and philosopher A.N Whitehead once commented on Plato’s thought: “The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. I do not mean the systematic scheme of thought which scholars have doubtfully extracted from his writings. I allude to the wealth of general ideas scattered through them”.This course will explore a portion of the wealth of ideas in Plato’s writings alluded to by Whitehead that are foundational to European philosophy by focusing on the most basic ones, which the course dividesunder these three headings:1. Socratic Method: The Most Blameworthy Ignorance: Thinking You Know What You Don’t Know.2. Meno’s Paradox: Is Learning Possible?3. The Philosophical Conversion of the Soul: The Philosophical Life Plato presented his philosophy dramatically, in written dialogues that portrayed philosophers in conversation with non-philosophers in the process of examining all aspects of life. Significantly, Plato never speaks in his own voice in any of his dialogues. In light of this, the principial aim of this course will be to facilitate the skills requisite for the student of Plato’s philosophy to read his texts with comprehension and to interpret them in a manner that elicits critically their philosophical content. |
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Code:
YBAJ020 |
Lecturer:
Marková,A. |
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Semester:
Summer
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Schedule:
mon 10:00 - 11:20, room YT112 (Faculty of Humanities, Pátkova 2137/5, Praha 8 - Libeň)
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The course deals with symbolical figures of the Czech history (e.g., St. Wenceslaus, Jan Žižka, Jan Hus and many others) and changes in the interpretation of their role throughout history. The attention will be focused on an interaction between ideology and history, history and historical myths, collective memory and historical consciousness. The aim of the course is to familiarize students with significant milestones and symbolical figures of the Czech history as well as to demonstrate the ambiguity of their interpretation due to different political and historical contexts. An educational excursion (National Memorial on the Vítkov Hill) is a part of the syllabus. |
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Code:
YBAJ215 |
Lecturer:
Klepal,J. |
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Semester:
Summer
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Language:
English
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ECTS credits:
4
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Schedule:
thu 10:00 - 11:20, room YT117 (Faculty of Humanities, Pátkova 2137/5, Praha 8 - Libeň)
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Sociocultural anthropology in general, and medical anthropology in particular, has been questioning predominant understandings of human body, health, and sickness. This course focuses on anthropological encounters with beliefs and practices through which embodiment, wellbeing, and afflictions are experienced, communicated, and enacted in the contemporary cross-cultural context and globalized world. Topics covered include medical pluralism, disability, (bio)medicalization, reproduction, mental health, complementary and alternative medicine, and (bio)medical technologies. By the end of the course, students will have a better grasp of concepts and methods of sociocultural anthropology; they will be able to critically reflect on their own and others’ embodied experiences of health and disease; and they will be able to apply findings of medical anthropology beyond the field. |
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