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Anthropological perspectives on India - AINDV1026
Anglický název: Anthropological perspectives on India
Zajišťuje: Ústav asijských studií (21-UAS)
Fakulta: Filozofická fakulta
Platnost: od 2024
Semestr: zimní
Body: 0
E-Kredity: 6
Způsob provedení zkoušky: zimní s.:
Rozsah, examinace: zimní s.:2/0, Zk [HT]
Počet míst: neurčen / neurčen (24)
Minimální obsazenost: neomezen
4EU+: ne
Virtuální mobilita / počet míst pro virtuální mobilitu: ne
Kompetence:  
Stav předmětu: nevyučován
Jazyk výuky: angličtina
Způsob výuky: prezenční
Úroveň:  
Poznámka: předmět je možno zapsat mimo plán
povolen pro zápis po webu
při zápisu přednost, je-li ve stud. plánu
Garant: Mgr. Martin Hříbek, Ph.D.
Třída: Exchange - 14.7 Anthropology
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Anotace
The course introduces major general subjects of cultural anthropology with focus on Indian and occasionally other
South Asian context with contemporary issues in view. The course is open to all Faculty students as well as
ERASMUS students. Prior experience with either Indian studies or cultural/social anthropology is welcome but not
necessary for enrolment into the course.
Poslední úprava: Eclerová Zdeňka, Mgr. (28.07.2015)
Podmínky zakončení předmětu -

The credits will be awarded on the basis of a written examination, a test with both multiple choice and open questions, based on suggested reading and issues discussed in class.

Poslední úprava: Eclerová Zdeňka, Mgr. (28.07.2015)
Literatura
Základní:
APPADURAI, A. Public Culture. In: Veena Das, ed., The Oxford India Companion to Sociology and Social Anthropology. Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2003, pp. 654-674.

CHAUHAN, B. R. Village Community. In: Veena Das, ed., The Oxford India Companion to Sociology and Social Anthropology. Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2003, pp. 409-457.

FULLER, C. J. Caste. In: Veena Das, ed., The Oxford India Companion to Sociology and Social Anthropology. Oxford University Press, Delhi 2003, pp. 477-501.

GUPTA, D. Social Stratification. Hierarchy, Difference, and Social Mobility. In: Veena Das, ed., The Oxford India Companion to Sociology and Social Anthropology. Oxford University Press, New Delhi 2003, pp. 502-531.

GUPTA, N. The Indian City. In: Veena Das, ed., The Oxford India Companion to Sociology and Social Anthropology. Oxford University Press New Delhi 2003, pp. 458-476.

KOTTAK, C. P. The Scope of Anthropology. In: Anthropology. The Exploration of Human Diversity. Sixth edition. Boston: McGraw-Hill 1996, pp. 1-20.

KOTTAK, C. P Culture. In: Anthropology. The Exploration of Human Diversity. Sixth edition. Boston: McGraw-Hill 1994, pp. 37-50.

KUMAR, N. Consumption and Lifestyle. In: Veena Das, ed., The Oxford India Companion to Sociology and Social Anthropology. Oxford University Press, New Delhi 2003, pp. 675-694.

SINGH, U. N. Social Aspects of Language. In: Veena Das, ed., The Oxford India Companion to Sociology and Social Anthropology. Oxford University Press, New Delhi 2003, pp. 695-768.

VIASARIA P. and L. India’s Population. Its Growth and Key Characteristics. In: Veena Das, ed., The Oxford India Companion to Sociology and Social Anthropology. Oxford University Press, New Delhi 2003, pp. 184-218.

Doporučená:
INDEN R., NICHOLAS R. Kinship in Bengali Culture. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1977.

KOTALOVÁ, J. Belonging to Others. Cultural Construction of Womenhood in a Village in Bangladesh. University Press Limited, Dhaka 1996.

KUMAR, N. Friends, Brothers, and Informants: Fieldwork Memoirs of Banaras: University of California Press, Berkley 1992.

ÖSTÖR, F. and B. Concepts of Person. Kinship, Caste, and Marriage in India. Oxford University Press, New Delhi 1992 [1982].

SCHWARTZBERG, J. E., A Historical Atlas of South Asia. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1992.

Articles in Indian press dealing with the issues that are subject of the course.

Poslední úprava: Eclerová Zdeňka, Mgr. (28.07.2015)
Sylabus -

* Tematické okruhy:
1. Introductory Class
2. Language and Society

Mandatory reding : Carmen Brandt: The Identity Politics of Language and Script in South Asia.pdf


3. Social Structure 

Mandatory reding : Stratification.pdf or any chapter of Dipankar Gupta-Caste in Question_ Identity or Hierarchy (Contributions to Indian Sociology_ Occasional Studies, 12) (2004).pdf


4. Family and Kinship

Mandatory reding : Patricia Uberoi: Family.PDF


5. Caste

Mandatory reding : Chrispopher J. Fuller: Kasty.pdf

6. Gender
7. Villages and Urban Centres
8. Popular Culture
9. Art
10. Political System
11. Contemporary Issues I. - Violence: Domestic and Public
12. Contemporary Issues II. - Biotechnologies: Science, Business, and Society

The following links allow access to documentaries on South Asia on topics which relate local cultural milieus with upcoming technologies and global capitalism, namely trade in human hair, surrogate motherhood, drugs in prostitution, and organ trade.

 

Hair India

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XOxXXTRDyA

 

Outsourcing Surrogacy

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9FPiNc6-dI

 

Sex workers take steroids - Bangladeshi sex workers 'plump up' for clients | Guardian Investigations

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGKBMvtDY68

 

Human trafficking victims forced to sell their organs share harrowing stories

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUsd7Qs4NOk

Poslední úprava: Hříbek Martin, Mgr., Ph.D. (18.12.2023)
 
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