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Code:
YBLS001 |
Lecturer:
Abu Ghosh,Y. |
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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 YT201 (Faculty of Humanities, Pátkova 2137/5, Praha 8 - Libeň)
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The tumultuous fate of European Roma and Sinti during the 20th century has seen their culture and very existence as a people challenged. Despite being subjected to intense assimilation policies and persecution, they regularly re-emerge with remarkable revitalizing power. Who are then the Roma and Sint and what does it mean to be Roma/Sinti from their point of view? In this course, we will learn about the historical and social adaptations of various Roma groups mainly in Europe but also in other regions around the world. Then we will focus on Central Europe as a region that has become the laboratory of policies addressing the allegedly troubling fit of the Roma/Sinti to modernity. The course will draw on the latest research on topics such as racialized modernity, memory building, political arenas and subjectivities, labor and class, center and periphery, gender, structural and political violence etc. This course will challenge mono-causal explanations and will stimulate students to think about and through Roma and Sinai experience in a critical way that brings into consideration the societies they live in. Building on a diverse selection of empirical material, ranging from ethnographic, historical, and sociological case studies to film and art, the course will present the Roma/Sinti “as good to think with” about contemporary societies. |
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Code:
YBLS003 |
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:
tue 10:00 - 11:20, room YT121 (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:
YBLS005 |
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:
without the schedule or the schedule has not been defined yet
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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:
YBLH005 |
Lecturer:
Korbel,T. |
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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 16:00 - 17:20, room YT112 (Faculty of Humanities, Pátkova 2137/5, Praha 8 - Libeň)
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The course deals with the development of the profession of architect and builder against the background of the cultural-historical development of the Czech lands in the 19th and the first half of the 20th century. First, general aspects of the development of architectural and building education, administration and law in the Habsburg Monarchy will be presented. Second, the professional and social rise of this social group will be monitored against the background of the formation of the national identity of the Czech and German ethnic groups in the second half of the 19th century. Third, the course will focus on the role of architects and builders in the first phase of building the Czechoslovak state in the first half of the 20th century. |
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Code:
YBLS006 |
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 13:00 - 14:20, room YT002 (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:
YBLS039 |
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 14:30 - 15:50, room YT201 (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:
YBLH014 |
Lecturer:
Baloun,P. |
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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 YT102 (Faculty of Humanities, Pátkova 2137/5, Praha 8 - Libeň)
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In this seminar we will delve into the burgeoning and intertwined scholarship on the history of Roma and Sinti as well as Anti-G*psyism in the context of East Central Europe in the 20th century. We will discuss the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches towards the Romani presence within East Central Europe: the concept of Otherness and Othering, the Roma and Sinti criminalization, concept of Anti-G*psyism, the Roma and Sinti histories etc. Although the seminar will show the importance of the topic of the genocide during the Second World War, we will go beyond the Nazi Germany and explore other contexts, in particular the Bohemian Lands and Czechoslovakia. |
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Code:
YBLH015 |
Lecturer:
Čapská,V. + Pípalová,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:
see Student Information System
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Code:
YBLH001 |
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 8:30 - 9:50, room YT242 (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.The use of generative AI tools is permitted in this course strictly as an auxiliary aid. Allowed uses include language corrections, translations, and technical assistance for clearly limited tasks. The use of AI for any form of substantive academic work is prohibited, including (even partial) text generation, the development of arguments, and the independent search for literature or scholarly sources. All submitted work must demonstrably represent the student’s own intellectual contribution. Students remain fully responsible for the accuracy and academic integrity of all materials they submit. |
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Code:
YBLS044 |
Lecturer:
Crofony,T. |
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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 14:30 - 15:50, room YT102 (Faculty of Humanities, Pátkova 2137/5, Praha 8 - Libeň)
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Who are “we”? Who am “I”? Why is the “Other” constructed as other, and on what grounds? Do we have a single, stable identity, or multiple, situational ones? And, most importantly, is the category of “identity” still analytically useful in the age of “superdiversity,” a term coined by sociologist Steven Vertovec? This course introduces anthropological and social theory approaches to identity and subjectivity, focusing on how identities are constructed, conceptualized, debated, employed, and mobilized in different social, cultural, and political contexts. Instead of taking identity as a self-evident category, the course approaches “identity” as a problem for analysis, asking what the concept of identity allows us to understand, what it may obscure, and with what implications. |
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Code:
YBLS041 |
Lecturer:
Sindelar,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:
without the schedule or the schedule has not been defined yet
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The lecture provides an introduction to the history, theory, and methodology within the anthropology of art. It starts out by discussing terminological issues and the difference between art-historical and art-anthropological approaches. After introducing earlier anthropological studies on art, the lecture focuses on key debates within this sub-discipline, including: differences between material culture and art, questions of agency, primitivism, aesthetics, and iconography, as well as art and technology. Following, newer art-anthropological research will be discussed in the context of art as a commodity, the collection and display of modern and contemporary art, art’s circulation in global art worlds, as well as the provenance and restitution politics of art. |
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Code:
YBLP019 |
Lecturer:
Macháček,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:
fri 14:30 - 15:50, room YT220 (Faculty of Humanities, Pátkova 2137/5, Praha 8 - Libeň)
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This seminar is based on guided reading and discussion of primary philosophical texts and focuses on epistemology, that is, the theory of knowledge. The main goal of the course is to help students understand the most important problems related to knowledge, belief, and truth. The central topics include the difference between belief and knowledge, the role of truth, and the question of how our beliefs can be justified. |
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Code:
YBLS007 |
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:
wed 13:00 - 14:20, room YT113 (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:
YBLS016 |
Lecturer:
Hanson,E. |
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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 YT112 (Faculty of Humanities, Pátkova 2137/5, Praha 8 - Libeň)
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This course examines how psychology informs politics, including how we build political identities, why people engage in political behaviors, and the mutually constitutive relationship between people and institutions. The course will primarily focus on research from social psychology, but we will also look to broader literatures including cognitive and personality psychology, sociology, political science, and international relations. Although much of the research in this field is conducted with a focus on the “global north”, and the United States in particular, in this course we will take a global perspective. We will cover topics such as ideology, political personality, partisanship, attitude change, motivated reasoning, intergroup relationships, conflict, conspiracies, and prejudice/stigma. |
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Code:
YBLH013 |
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 YT131 (Faculty of Humanities, Pátkova 2137/5, Praha 8 - Libeň)
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The course focuses on symbolic figures in Czech history (e.g., St. Wenceslaus, Jan Žižka, Jan Hus, and many others) and on the changing interpretations of their roles over time. Attention will be paid to the interaction between ideology and history, historical narratives and myths, and collective memory and historical consciousness.The aim of the course is to familiarize students with significant milestones and symbolic figures in Czech history, while also demonstrating the ambiguity and variability of their interpretations in different political and historical contexts. |
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Code:
YBLS009 |
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 13:00 - 14:20, room YT032 (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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Code:
YBLP015 |
Lecturer:
Marek,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 14:30 - 15:50, room YT212 (Faculty of Humanities, Pátkova 2137/5, Praha 8 - Libeň)
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The first half of the 20th century witnessed the complete destruction of traditional humanistic ideals such as rationality, progress, or individual liberties. After such devastating experience, philosophers of the second half of the 20th century became gradually more and more outspoken about the idea, that the tradition of humanism as such should be abandoned. What comes next? One strong answer to this question is post-humanism. Dissatisfied with the prospect of promoting the humanistic ideals, many authors have proposed to envision a point of view not focused on humanity, not focused on the universality of the human, but rather on nature (the "more-than-human"), on otherness, on diversity rather than universality. In this class, we will be exploring this silent revolution of the past 50 years, a revolution of thinking but also relating to ourselves, the world, and others. Much of today's struggle, dissatisfaction, but also conflicts can be linked to this revolution. The dominant position of humankind as the crowning pinnacle of creation, as the actualisation of rationality, freedom, and morality, is lost. Humankind sees itself differently. It is the purpose of this class to understand the fundamental aspects of this silent revolution and to link them to contemporary phenomena. We will be doing so in various exercises, presentations, discussions, media screenings, etc. The class will have the form of a workshop where the students will be expected to contribute by active participation (presentations, small scale research, reading, discussions). The students will get the opportunity to develop their academic skills: we will focus on research methods, on various source-material for philosophical research, but we will also specifically discuss the use of AI tools in academic research. |
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