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Body, Health and Society - YBA246
Anglický název: Body, Health and Society
Zajišťuje: Program Liberal Arts and Humanities (24-SHVAJ)
Fakulta: Fakulta humanitních studií
Platnost: od 2021
Semestr: letní
E-Kredity: 4
Způsob provedení zkoušky: letní s.:
Rozsah, examinace: letní s.:2/0, KZ [HT]
Počet míst: neurčen / neurčen (20)
Minimální obsazenost: neomezen
4EU+: ne
Virtuální mobilita / počet míst pro virtuální mobilitu: ne
Kompetence:  
Stav předmětu: nevyučován
Jazyk výuky: angličtina
Způsob výuky: prezenční
Způsob výuky: prezenční
Úroveň:  
Poznámka: předmět lze zapsat opakovaně
předmět je možno zapsat mimo plán
povolen pro zápis po webu
Garant: Mgr. Alžběta Wolfová, Ph.D.
Termíny zkoušek   Rozvrh   Nástěnka   
Anotace -
Poslední úprava: Mgr. Alžběta Wolfová, Ph.D. (14.02.2021)
This course aims to introduce different approaches to the body, health, and illness from the perspective of sociocultural anthropology. How can we study body and health-related issues? And what kind of understanding can we get based on these different approaches? The course is open to full-time and Erasmus students. Moreover, it is designed to contribute to the full-time students´ preparations for the compulsory Comprehensive exam in Social Sciences (CESS). Based on the part of the readings for the third part of CESS, the development of anthropological thinking about the body, health and illness will be discussed. Through the in-class exercises, students will practice the skills of critical reading, writing, and text comparison. These are essential for the successful completion of the third part of CESS exam as well as for the completion of the dissertation. The course will take place online via MS Teams (code for the enrollment: ). The sessions will take up to 70minutes and will have a seminar form, where selected reading will be reviewed and the key concepts discussed and applied on the body or health-related topics. Therefore preparation (readings, synopses) creates an inherent part of the course.
Metody výuky
Poslední úprava: Mgr. Alžběta Wolfová, Ph.D. (14.09.2017)

combined: lecture + seminar

Požadavky ke zkoušce
Poslední úprava: Mgr. Alžběta Wolfová, Ph.D. (23.02.2021)

Assumption: Attendance 70% of classes with the camera on

 

Class participation (20 % of the final grade)

Synopsis (20 % of the final grade)

·         1-2 paragraphs

·         overview (what is the text about)

·         main argument

·         paradigm - directs epistemological assumption, suitable methods, questions asked

·         1 comment or question (did you find something interesting in particular in the text? Do you not agree with something in the text? Do you not understand something in the text?)     

Final essay, 1250 - 1750 words (60 % of the final grade)

·         based on at least 3 titles from the field of social sciences (at least one from the course mandatory literature)

·         the consultation of the topic with the lecturer needed before you start, then topic and bibliography needs to be uploaded in moodle

·         Design: building upon literature - to discuss a selected topic, comparing different theoretical approaches to it (apply a theory/ concept on some phenomenon). The arguments have to be rooted in scholarly literature!!!!

Sylabus
Poslední úprava: Mgr. Alžběta Wolfová, Ph.D. (23.02.2021)

code for enrolling via MS Teams: k8s9p4y

moodle:https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=11907

1.      24.2.  Introduction of the Course and the Discipline of Anthropology/Sociology of the body

 Bodies and social (dis)order

 2.        3.3.  Techniques of the body (Marcel Mauss)
 3.      10.3.  The two bodies (Mary Douglas)
 4.      17.3.  Embodied information in face-to-face interaction (Erwing Goffmann)
 5.      24.3.  Habitus, the body as both, the outcome and structuring principle (Pierre Bourdieu)
 6.      31.3.  Docile bodies (Michel Foucault)
 7.        7. 4. Embodiment (Robert Murphy)
 8.      14.4.  Body and subjectivity (?)
 
 Exercising power, shaping bodies
 
 9.     21.4.   Body as a discourse negotiation (Judith Butler+ Emily Martin)
 10.   28.4.   Body as a locus of cultural resistance (Aihwa Ong)
 11.     5.5.   Body – a central node in a symbolic and social structure (Nancy Scheper Hughes)
 12.   19.5.   Bodies incommensurable and the menopause (Margaret Lock)
 

 

Compulsory literature:

Mauss, Marcel (2007) [1935]. Techniques of the body. In Farquhar, J. and Lock, M. Beyond the Body Proper, pp. 50-68.

Douglas, M. (2004) [1970]. The two bodies. In Douglas, M., Natural symbols, pp. 72-91. Taylor & Francis e-Library.

Goffman, E. (1963). Introductory definitions, pp. 13-30. In Goffman, E., Behaviour in public places. New York, The Free Press.

Wacquant, L. J. D. (1995). Pugs at work: Bodily Capital and Bodily Labour among Professional Boxers. Body & Society, 1(1), 65–93.

Foucault, M. (1991). Discipline and punish: the birth of the prison. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, Penguin Books. (Chapter: Docile bodies, pp. 135-169)

Martin, E. (1991). The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles, Signs 16 (3), pp 485-501.

Ong, A. (1988). The Production of Possession: Spirits and the Multinational Corporation in Malaysia.  American Ethnologist 15/1: 28-42

Scheper-Hughes, N. ([1989] 2006). Mother’s Love: Death without Weeping. In: Spradley, James P. & McCurdy, David W. (Eds.): Conformity & conflict: Readings in cultural anthropology. 14th ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J: Pearson, 156-162.

Lock, M., Kaufert, P. (2001). Menopause, local biologies, and cultures of aging. American Journal of Human Biology, 13(4), 494.

Podmínky zakončení předmětu - angličtina
Poslední úprava: Mgr. Alžběta Wolfová, Ph.D. (14.02.2021)

Attendance: at least 70% of sessions with the camera on

Active class participation.

Completion of four synopsis from a compulsory literature (you can choose from 10 papers or chapters assigned to each class). 

Final essay (1250 - 1750 words).

 
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