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Course, academic year 2025/2026
   
Integral Anthropology III - OIBQ3P034A
Title: Integral Anthropology III
Guaranteed by: Katedra pedagogiky (41-KPG)
Faculty: Faculty of Education
Actual: from 2020
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 5
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/1, Ex [HT]
Extent per academic year: 0 [hours]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: not taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Note: enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: doc. PhDr. Jiří Prokop, Ph.D.
PhDr. Ivo Syřiště, Ph.D.
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Annotation -
The course provides an overview of basic knowledge of contemporary social and cultural anthropology, deals with the development, structure and functioning of socio-cultural systems in the past and today. Attention is focused on a thorough definition of the terms society, culture, subculture, counterculture in the context of human sciences. Furthermore, selected cultural elements, artifacts, regulations and ideas that facilitate the grasp of culture and society within the social-scientific discourse are analyzed. The aim of the course is to lay the foundations of social and cultural anthropology necessary for the systemic conception of man in modern pedagogy in connection with the basics of biological anthropology. Content definition: 1. Social and cultural anthropology in the system of anthropological disciplines. 2. Basic terminological apparatus of social and cultural anthropology. 3. Man and culture, problems of subcultures and countercultures. 4. Man and language. 5. Man, cult and ritual.
Last update: Kadrnožková Monika, PhDr., Ph.D. (26.10.2020)
Literature -

Barnard, A., Spencer, J. (2011). The Routledge Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology. New York: Routledge.

Harari, Y. N. (2015). Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. Vintage.

Monaghan, J., Just, P. (2000). Social and Cultural Anthropology: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Pountney, L., Maric, T. (2015). Introducing Anthropology: What Makes Us Human? Polity.

Rapport, N. (2014). Social and Cultural Anthropology: The Key Concepts. New York: Routledge.

Last update: Kadrnožková Monika, PhDr., Ph.D. (26.10.2020)
 
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