Controversial Issues in Anthropology - YBLS039

• Anglický název: Controversial Issues in Anthropology
• Podoba výuky: seminář
• Zajišťuje: Program Liberal Arts and Humanities (24-SHVAJ)
• Fakulta: Fakulta humanitních studií
• Platnost: od 2025
• Počet semestrů výuky: 1
• Semestr: letní
• E-Kredity: 4
• Způsob provedení zkoušky: letní s.:
• Rozsah, examinace: letní s.:0/2, KZ [HS]
• Rozsah za akademický rok: 26 [hodiny]
• Počet míst: neurčen / neurčen (20)
• Maximální kapacita předmětu: 20
• Minimální obsazenost: neomezen
• 4EU+: ne
• Virtuální mobilita / počet míst pro virtuální mobilitu: ne
• Stav předmětu: vyučován
• Jazyk výuky: angličtina
• Forma uskutečňování: prezenční
• Staré označení: YBAJ024
• Možnost opakovaného zápisu: 1 (2) / 1 / 1 / 1
• Poznámka: předmět je možno zapsat mimo plán; povolen pro zápis po webu
• Garant: Mgr. Martin Heřmanský, Ph.D.
• Třída: Courses available to incoming students
• Prerekvizity : {Pomocná skupina prerekvizit pro LAH a Exchange studující - ANTR}
• Neslučitelnost : YBAJ024

Anotace

čeština

This course explores selected ethical and epistemological issues in sociocultural anthropology by examining topics that generate sharply contrasting viewpoints or are considered controversial. In addition to developing students’ anthropological thinking, the course aims to strengthen their critical reflection and interpretive skills. Each topic (see below) is approached through two texts whose authors take opposing positions on a question of fundamental importance to sociocultural anthropology. Students are expected to read and understand medium-length academic texts in English (up to 30 pages) and to prepare independently for their discussion in class.

Poslední úprava: Heřmanský Martin, Mgr., Ph.D. (30.09.2026)

angličtina

This course explores selected ethical and epistemological issues in sociocultural anthropology by examining topics that generate sharply contrasting viewpoints or are considered controversial. In addition to developing students’ anthropological thinking, the course aims to strengthen their critical reflection and interpretive skills. Each topic (see below) is approached through two texts whose authors take opposing positions on a question of fundamental importance to sociocultural anthropology. Students are expected to read and understand medium-length academic texts in English (up to 30 pages) and to prepare independently for their discussion in class.

Poslední úprava: Heřmanský Martin, Mgr., Ph.D. (14.09.2026)

Sylabus

1. Sociocultural Anthropology and the Nature of Its Controversies
2. Is It Natural for Adopted Children to Want to Find Out About Their Birth Parents? 
3. Are Yanomami Violence and Warfare Natural Human Efforts to Maximize Reproductive Fitness? 
4. Is Ethnic Conflict Inevitable?
5. Was Margaret Mead’s Fieldwork on Samoan Adolescents Fundamentally Flawed?
6. Did Napoleon Chagnon’s Research Methods Harm the Yanomami Indians of Venezuela? 
7. Should Anthropologists Work to Eliminate the Practice of Female Circumcision? 
8. Should Anthropologist Refrain to Collaborate with Military? 
9. Do Native Peoples Today Invent Their Traditions? 
10. Should Cultural Anthropology Stop Trying to Model Itself as a Science? 
11. Does Human Nature Lie in Cultural Universals? 
12. Should anthropologists stop using the concept of culture? 

Poslední úprava: Horáčková Karolína, Mgr. (26.08.2026)

Studijní opory

Course support page in Moodle: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=18755.

Poslední úprava: Horáčková Karolína, Mgr. (26.08.2026)