Český folklor a lidová tradice - AET500198

• Anglický název: Czech Folklore and Popular Tradition
• Podoba výuky: přednáška
• Zajišťuje: Ústav etnologie a středoevropských a balkánských studií (21-UESEBS)
• Fakulta: Filozofická fakulta
• Platnost: od 2023
• Počet semestrů výuky: 1
• Semestr: oba
• Body: 0
• E-Kredity: 4
• Způsob provedení zkoušky: ústní
• Rozsah, examinace: 2/1, Zk [HT]
• Počet míst: zimní:neurčen / neurčen (neurčen); letní:neurčen / neurčen (neurčen)
• Maximální kapacita předmětu: neomezen
• Minimální obsazenost: neomezen
• 4EU+: ne
• Virtuální mobilita / počet míst pro virtuální mobilitu: ne
• Stav předmětu: nevyučován
• Jazyk výuky: angličtina
• Forma uskutečňování: prezenční
• Možnost opakovaného zápisu: 2 / 2 / 2 / 2
• Poznámka: předmět je možno zapsat mimo plán; povolen pro zápis po webu; předmět lze zapsat v ZS i LS
• Garant: doc. PhDr. Petr Janeček, Ph.D.
• Třída: Exchange - 08.3 History; Exchange - 08.9 Others-Humanities; Exchange - 14.7 Anthropology; Exchange - 15.4 Library Science

Anotace

The course provides an introduction to phenomena of both historical and contemporary popular cultures of the Czech Lands with special emphasis on the folklorism ("fakelore") of the age of romantic nationalism in the 19th century and subversive role of folklore in Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic in the 20th century.
The course presents folklore and its various interpretations (including contemporary one of the "intangible cultural heritage") as one of the specific both vernacular and official strategies to interpret pecularities of local history and society. It focuses especially on collective expressive forms such as traditional oral folklore (folktales, folk legends), but also more modern form such as jokes, graffiti and internet memes.
Brief history of Czech branch of academical field of ethnology – from nonintentional fixations of folklore texts and early academic conceptualizations of folklore to contemporary interdisciplinary folklore theories – is also presented.

Poslední úprava: Janeček Petr, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (01.10.2018)

Literatura

 

Compulsory Readings:

Burke, Peter: Popular Culture between History and Ethnology. Ethnologia Europaea 14, 1984, pp. 5-13.

Chad, Bryant:  The Language of Resistance?  Czech Jokes and Joke-Telling under Nazi-Occupation, 1943-1945. Journal of Contemporary History 41, 2006, pp. 133-151.

Holy, Ladislav: The Little Czech and the Great Czech Nation. National Identity and the Post-Communist Social Transformation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Janeček, Petr: Bloody Mary or Krvavá Máří? Globalization and Czech Children´s  Folklore. Slovak Ethnology 62,2, 2014, pp. 221-243.

 

Suggested Readings:

Burke, Peter: History and Folklore. A Historiographical Survey. Folklore 115, 2004, pp. 133-139.

Erben, Karel Jaromír: A Bouquet of Czech Folktales. Prague: Twisted Spoon Press, 2012.

Feinberg, Joseph Grim: Returning Folklore to the People: On the Paradox of Publicizing Folklore in Post-Communist Slovakia. Österreichische Zeitschrift für Volkskunde 116, 3-4, 2013, pp, 405-427.

Jakobson, Roman – Bogatyrev, Petr: Folklore as a Special Form of Creation. Folklore Forum 13, 1, 1980, pp. 1-21.

Janeček, Petr: Current Studies of Games and Play in the Czech Republic. Journal of Ethnology 23, 5, 2013, pp. 57-67.

Laineste, Liisi: Post – Socialist Jokelore: Preliminary Findings and Futher Research Suggestions. Acta Ethnographica Hungarica 54, 2009, pp. 31 – 45.

Obrdlik, AntoninJ.: „Gallows Humor“ – A Sociological Phenomenon. The American Journal of Sociology 47, 5, 1942, pp. 709–716.

Vermeulen, Han F.: Origins and institutionalization of ethnography and ethnology in Europe and the USA, 1771-1845. In: Vermeulen, Han F. – Roldán, Alvarez (eds.): Fieldwork and Footnotes. Studies in the History of European Anthropology. London/New York: Routledge, 1995, pp. 39-59.

Poslední úprava: Janeček Petr, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (01.10.2018)

Kontroly studia předmětu a podmínky pro jejich úspěšné vykonání, způsob hodnocení

The course will be finished by discussing the readings during seminar and evaluating practical paper – documentation and interpretation of single text of contemporary Czech verbal folklore (e. g. joke, contemporary legend, rumour, ghost story, traditional legend etc.).

Poslední úprava: Janeček Petr, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (01.10.2018)

Sylabus

 

Content

 

1. Folklore and popular cultures in the humanities and social sciences

2. Birth of folklore in the age of Romantic nationalism

Readings: Wilson, Willliam A.: Herder, Folklore and Romantic Nationalism (01)

3. Czech folklore and the Romantic Nationalism

Readings: Hartwig, Kurt: The Incidental History of Folklore in Bohemia (02)

4. „Gallows humor“ as strategy of resistance during the Second World War

Readings: Obrdlik, AntoninJ.: „Gallows Humor“ – A Sociological Phenomenon (03)

5. Social function of Czech folklore during the Second World War

Readings: Chad, Bryant:  The Language of Resistance?  Czech Jokes and Joke-Telling under Nazi-Occupation, 1943-1945

6. Folklore behind the Iron Curtain: Czech popular cultures during Communism

Readings: Oring, Elliot: Risky Bussiness: Political Jokes under Repressive Regimes (05)

7. Urban phantoms between vernacular and popular culture

Readings: Janeček, Petr: Superhero or villain? Spring Man narratives between communicative and cultural memory (06)

8. Contemporary Czech folklore between East and West

Readings: Janeček, Petr: Bloody Mary or Krvavá Máří? (07)

9. Czech children´s folklore in international context

Readings: Janeček, Petr: Current Studies of Games and Play in the Czech Republic (08)

10. Traditional Czech folklore between nationalism and nostalgia

Readings: Feintuch, Burt: The Joke, Folk Culture and Milan Kundera´s „The Joke“ (09)

11. Czech folkloristics as part of the European ethnology

Readings: Rogan, Bjarne: The troubled past of European ethnology (10)

 

Poslední úprava: Janeček Petr, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (01.10.2018)