Last update: doc. PhDr. Zdeněk Uherek, CSc. (04.11.2021)
The course focuses on the phenomenon of European unifications and the formation of political coalitions and clusters in a global context. It shows the inner logic of processes and asks what the project of the European unification was reacting to, what response it had and what objections it was facing to. The course notes that for social and cultural anthropology, Europe and the European Union are difficult to grasp and provide alternative answers why it is so. The course teaches students about texts on the anthropology of Europe and the European Union and instructs how to work with them.
Last update: doc. PhDr. Zdeněk Uherek, CSc. (04.11.2021)
Kurz je zaměřen na fenomén evropských sjednocování a formování politických koalic a uskupení v globálním kontextu. Ukazuje vnitřní logiku procesů a zeptá se, na co reagoval projekt evropského sjednocení a jakým překážkám čelil. Ukazuje evropskou stejnorodost a rozmanitost, diference sever - jih a východ - západ. Jeho část se věnuje nejvýraznějším antropologům Evropy a metodám jejich práce.
Course completion requirements -
Last update: doc. PhDr. Zdeněk Uherek, CSc. (06.12.2022)
Terms for completing the course
To pass the course successfully, the mid-term academic text of your choice, which coincides with the topic of the course and final test, should be passed. The theme of the text is discussed in advance with the lecturer. The final test contains two open questions. The range of the “article” is unlimited; the assumed minimum length is four standard pages (1000 words). The text should contain the objectives of the text, the basic research question, the assessment of the state of knowledge of the subject, the description of the method of solution, the solution of the research question, the conclusion and references to sources and literature. Each of the points may be a short paragraph, but the work should include it. The text should be submitted at least by the end of the exam period. The final test contains two open questions. The open questions will be sent to the student online at the exam date chosen by the student in SIS (the student has three options). registers in SIS. The student has 5 days to answer the questions. The scope of the answer to the question will be specified with the open questions. Mid-term: Max 50 points, min: 0; final text max 50 points min 0.
Rating:
Maximum 100 %; minimum for passing 51%;
A = 100 – 91
B = 90 – 81
C = 80 – 71
D = 70 – 61
E = 60 – 51
F = 50 – 0
Mid-term academic study: max 50 %
Final test: 50 %
Last update: doc. PhDr. Zdeněk Uherek, CSc. (06.12.2022)
Podmínky pro absolvování kurzu
Pro úspěšné absolvování předmětu je nutné vypracovat průběžnou akademickou studii a absolvovat závěrečný test. Odevzdání „písemného originálního textu“ dle vašeho výběru souvisí s tématem kurzu. Téma textu je předem projednáno s lektorem. Rozsah akademické studie je neomezený; předpokládaná minimální délka jsou čtyři standardní stránky (1000 slov). Text by měl obsahovat cíle textu, základní výzkumnou otázku, posouzení stavu znalostí předmětu, popis metody řešení, řešení výzkumné otázky, závěr a odkazy na prameny a literaturu. Každý z bodů může být krátkým odstavcem, ale práce by jej měla obsahovat. Text by měl být předložen alespoň do konce zkušebního období. Závěrečný test obsahuje dvě otevřené otázky. Otevřené otázky dostane odpovídající online v termínu online v den, na který se zapíše do SIS. Na vypracování otázek bude mít 5 dní. V zadávací dokumentaci bude též rozsah stanovený pro odpověň na otázku.
Hodnocení:
Maximálně 100%; minimum pro absolvování 51%;
A = 100 - 91
B = 90 - 81
C = 80 - 71
D = 70 - 61
E = 60 - 51
F = 50 - 0
Průběžná akademická studie: max. 50 %
Závěrečný test max.: 50 %
Literature -
Last update: doc. PhDr. Zdeněk Uherek, CSc. (05.11.2023)
Compulsory:
Giordano, Christian 2009: Political Regionalism in Globalized Word System: Local Identity Constructions in Europe. Acta Historica Universitatis Klaipedensis XIX, Studia Anthropologica III: 93–106.
Goody Jack 2000: The European Family: An Historical-Anthropological Essay. Oxford: Blackwell.
Heady, Patrick 2005: Nuclear Families and Cognatic Descent: Reflections on Two Characterisations of European Kinship. In: Skalník, Petr (ed)Anthropology of Europe: Teaching and Research. Prague: Set Out: 67-76.
Mitterauer Michael 2010: The Conjugal Family and Bilateral Kinship. In: Mitterauer, M. Why Europe? The Medieval Origins of Its Spatial Path. London, Chicago: University of Chicago Press: 58-99.
Panzera, Elisa 2022: Measuring Territorial Identities. An Application to European Regions. In: Elisa Panzera, Cultural Heritage and Territorial Identity: Synergies and Development Impact on European Regions. Cham: Springer: 101 - 115.
Verdery, Katherine 1996: What Was Socialism and What Comes Next? Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Recommended:
Areilza, José M. 2013: The History and Foundations of European Integration: A contriburion to the debate on the future of the Union. In: C. Arvanitopoulos (ed.), Reforming Europe: The Role of the Centre-Right. The Constantinos Karamanlis Institute for Democracy Series on European and International Affairs.
Dziegiel Leszek 1998: Paradise in the concrete cage: daily life in communist Poland: an ethnologist's view, Kraków: Arcana.
Gellner, Ernest 1992: Anthropology and Europe. Social Anthropology 1, 1: 1-7.
Gellner, Ernest 1998: Language and Solitude. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Hann, Chris 1995: The Skeleton at the Feast: Contributions to Eastern European Ethnography. The Canterbury University of Kent.
Chamberlain, Lesley 2017. Adorno, the Frankfurt School and the Soul of Europe.
Shore, Chris 1999: Fictions of Fieldwork: Depicting the 'Self' in Ethnographic Writing (Italy). In: C. W. Watson, Being There: Fieldwork in Anthropology. Chicago: Pluto Press.
Shore, Chris 2000: Building Europe: The Cultural Policy of European Integration. New York: Routledge.
Svasek, Maruska 2012: Emotions, Emotions and Political Negotiations: Transforming Relationships in the BohemianBavarian Border Zone. In: Svasek M. (ed.) Emotions and Human Mobility: Ethnographies of Movement. London: Routledge: 145-162.
Wilson, Thomas M. 1998: An Anthropology of the European Union, from above and Below. In: Parman, Susan (ed) Europe in the Anthropological Imagination. Prentice Hall: California State University: 148 - 156.
Last update: doc. PhDr. Zdeněk Uherek, CSc. (05.11.2023)
Compulsory:
Giordano, Christian 2009: Political Regionalism in Globalized Word System: Local Identity Constructions in Europe. Acta Historica Universitatis Klaipedensis XIX, Studia Anthropologica III: 93–106.
Goody Jack 2000: The European Family: An Historical-Anthropological Essay. Oxford: Blackwell.
Heady, Patrick 2005: Nuclear Families and Cognatic Descent: Reflections on Two Characterisations of European Kinship. In: Skalník, Petr (ed)Anthropology of Europe: Teaching and Research. Prague: Set Out: 67-76.
Mitterauer Michael 2010: The Conjugal Family and Bilateral Kinship. In: Mitterauer, M. Why Europe? The Medieval Origins of Its Spatial Path. London, Chicago: University of Chicago Press: 58-99.
Panzera, Elisa 2022: Measuring Territorial Identities. An Application to European Regions. In: Elisa Panzera, Cultural Heritage and Territorial Identity: Synergies and Development Impact on European Regions. Cham: Springer: 101 - 115.
Verdery, Katherine 1996: What Was Socialism and What Comes Next? Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Recommended:
Areilza, José M. 2013: The History and Foundations of European Integration: A contriburion to the debate on the future of the Union. In: C. Arvanitopoulos (ed.), Reforming Europe: The Role of the Centre-Right. The Constantinos Karamanlis Institute for Democracy Series on European and International Affairs.
Dziegiel Leszek 1998: Paradise in the concrete cage: daily life in communist Poland: an ethnologist's view, Kraków: Arcana.
Gellner, Ernest 1992: Anthropology and Europe. Social Anthropology 1, 1: 1-7.
Gellner, Ernest 1998: Language and Solitude. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Hann, Chris 1995: The Skeleton at the Feast: Contributions to Eastern European Ethnography. The Canterbury University of Kent.
Chamberlain, Lesley 2017. Adorno, the Frankfurt School and the Soul of Europe.
Shore, Chris 1999: Fictions of Fieldwork: Depicting the 'Self' in Ethnographic Writing (Italy). In: C. W. Watson, Being There: Fieldwork in Anthropology. Chicago: Pluto Press.
Shore, Chris 2000: Building Europe: The Cultural Policy of European Integration. New York: Routledge.
Svasek, Maruska 2012: Emotions, Emotions and Political Negotiations: Transforming Relationships in the BohemianBavarian Border Zone. In: Svasek M. (ed.) Emotions and Human Mobility: Ethnographies of Movement. London: Routledge: 145-162.
Wilson, Thomas M. 1998: An Anthropology of the European Union, from above and Below. In: Parman, Susan (ed) Europe in the Anthropological Imagination. Prentice Hall: California State University: 148 - 156.
Syllabus -
Last update: PhDr. Petr Bednařík, Ph.D. (21.09.2023)
The course is in a hybrid way. It is lectured in Pekařská according to the schedule and at the same time broadcasting and recording. The records will be available in Moodle.
1. Europe after World War II, geopolitical division of the world, postcolonialism and Western political thinking Frankfurt School and its leaders
2. European preindustrial empires and coalitions, the topic of high and low culture, the problem of European urbanization and urban culture in the preindustrial era, the European family, religion in Europe
3. European Unification at the beginning of 1950s: Economic unification and social imaginations.
4. European nationalism - state and nation, national centralization, national boundaries and their overlaps: to what extent the EU is building on European nationalism and in what ways it is trying to overcome it, how nationalism manifests itself in the European Union.
5. The collapse of the Soviet empire, the European Union as a pan-European phenomenon, and attempts in the social sciences to grasp new anthropological research in Europe. An analysis of the thesis that Western Europe experienced the most intense sense of unification at the breakup of the Eastern Block
6. Isolation, borders, and minorities in the European Union.
7. Research by European Institutions and Organizations. Attempts to study the institutions of the European Union and other instruments of power. Development of anthropology of institutions.
8. Examples of European regionalism.
9. Europe in relation to the next world, the theme of colonialism - Shreya Bhardwaj
10. Socialism and postsocialism: the phenomenon of Central and Eastern Europe; issues of material life and emotions.
11. Socialist economy, privatization, and further development in the post-socialist period
12. Language and group identity in European states
Last update: doc. PhDr. Zdeněk Uherek, CSc. (18.09.2021)
The course is in a hybrid way. It is lectured in Pekařská according to the schedule and at the same time broadcasting and recording. The records will be available in Moodle.
1. Europe after World War II, geopolitical division of the world, postcolonialism and Western political thinking Frankfurt School and its leaders
2. European preindustrial empires and coalitions, the topic of high and low culture, the problem of European urbanization and urban culture in the preindustrial era, the European family, religion in Europe
3. European Unification at the beginning of 1950s: Economic unification and social imaginations.
4. European nationalism - state and nation, national centralization, national boundaries and their overlaps: to what extent the EU is building on European nationalism and in what ways it is trying to overcome it, how nationalism manifests itself in the European Union.
5. The collapse of the Soviet empire, the European Union as a pan-European phenomenon, and attempts in the social sciences to grasp new anthropological research in Europe. An analysis of the thesis that Western Europe experienced the most intense sense of unification at the breakup of the Eastern Block
6. Isolation, borders, and minorities in the European Union.
7. Research by European Institutions and Organizations. Attempts to study the institutions of the European Union and other instruments of power. Development of anthropology of institutions.
8. Examples of European regionalism.
9. Europe in relation to the next world, the theme of colonialism - Shreya Bhardwaj
10. Socialism and postsocialism: the phenomenon of Central and Eastern Europe; issues of material life and emotions.
11. Socialist economy, privatization, and further development in the post-socialist period
12. Language and group identity in European states
