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Course, academic year 2025/2026
   
Classics of Sociocultural Anthropology - YBSB027
Title: Klasikové sociokulturní antropologie
Guaranteed by: Programme SHV - Social Sciences Module (24-SM)
Faculty: Faculty of Humanities
Actual: from 2025
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 4
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: 40 / unknown (40)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: Mgr. Ondřej Skripnik, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): Mgr. Ondřej Skripnik, Ph.D.
Co-requisite : {Úvod do sociokulturní antropologie (prezenční nebo kombinovaná forma)}
Incompatibility : YBSB027K
Pre-requisite : YBSA002
Is incompatible with: YBSB027K
Annotation -
The course introduces key figures and theoretical approaches of the classical period of sociocultural anthropology. Tracing the historical development of the discipline does not imply an encyclopedic coverage. Through a series of focused engagements with major representatives, the course follows the development of the field from its beginnings to the emergence of its principal paradigms and schools, with emphasis on understanding the historical context of their formation and their influence on contemporary anthropological thought. Students become familiar with the works of selected authors, their methodological approaches, and fundamental concepts.
Last update: Skripnik Ondřej, Mgr., Ph.D. (20.04.2026)
Course completion requirements - Czech

midterm - otázky na četbu k přednášce. 

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Last update: Skripnik Ondřej, Mgr., Ph.D. (20.04.2026)
Syllabus - Czech

Témata:

  1. Antropologie jako věda o „těch druhých“: vymezení oboru, základní pojmy a perspektivy.
  2. Rané teorie společnosti: Johann Jakob Bachofen a koncepce matriarchátu.
  3. Evolucionismus: Lewis Henry Morgan a dílo Pravěká společnost.
  4. Komparativní mytologie a náboženství: James George Frazer a Zlatá ratolest.
  5. Difúzionismus a heliolitická škola.
  6. Historický particularismus: Franz Boas.
  7. Jazyk a kultura: Edward Sapir a Benjamin Lee Whorf (Sapir–Whorfova hypotéza).
  8. Konfigurační přístup: Ruth Benedict.
  9. Škola Culture and Personality: Margaret Mead, její výzkumy a kritika Derek Freeman.
  10. Funkcionalismus: Bronisław Malinowski a jeho teorie kultury.
  11. Strukturalismus: Claude Lévi-Strauss.
  12. Symbolická antropologie: Clifford Geertz.

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